Archaeologist Dr. Julia King, a professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, on June 29 will speak the Rappahannock Tribe and Bacon’s Rebellion.
The presentation, sponsored by the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society, will begin at 4 p.m. in the court room on the second floor of the Old Middlesex County Courthouse, 865 General Puller Highway, Saluda. King will discuss her recent archaeological work in the Dragon Swamp, which lies on the southern border of Middlesex Country, reported president Marilyn South.
King’s talk will focus on the impact of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-77) on Indigenous Tribes in the Middle Peninsula. The Rebellion, in which Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen, indentured servants and enslaved people in an uprising against the colonial government of….
