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Bacon’s Rebellion topic of Sunday’s talk

“Reconsidering Bacon’s Rebellion at 350 Years” will be the topic of a talk on Sunday. The King and Queen County Historical Society invites the public to its quarterly meeting, which will begin at 3 p.m. at the King and Queen County Courthouse, 242 Allen’s Circle. At that meeting, the society will present Professor Julia A. King of St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Friends of the Dragon Run past president Jeff Wright who will give the talk. Three hundred and fifty years ago, rebel planter Nathaniel Bacon led an insurrection against Virginia’s colonial government that threw the colony into chaos. Bacon’s Rebellion, as the conflict is known today, was also a war of annihilation on Virginia’s neighboring Indian nations. Part of Bacon’s war on the native people took place in Dragon Swamp but, until now, what exactly happened has remained shrouded in mystery. In 2022, archaeologists from St. Mary’s College of Maryland teamed up with members of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, the Rappahannock Tri...

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