Native tribes fight to save Chief Powhatan’s birthplace from development

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Tree Hill Farm, tucked along Osborne Turnpike overlooking downtown Richmond, sits atop Eastern Henrico County with a rolling landscape of farmland and woods.

For Virginia’s Native American tribes, the 523-acre property is the scenic birthplace of Chief Powhatan and a living connection to more than 13,000 years of Indigenous history.

Now, the farm is at the center of a fight over its future…

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