Matoaca Elementary School
Matoaca may refer to: People * Pocahontas, Matoaca Rebecca Rolf * Matoaca Gay, 19th Century United States society writer and Shakespeare scholar Other * Matoaca, Virginia, a census-designated place (CDP) in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States * Matoaca High School Matoaca High School is a secondary school in the Matoaca community of unincorporated Chesterfield County, United States. This is the newer campus of the school; the old school campus was converted into a middle school, known currently as Matoa ...

Pocahontas
Pocahontas (, ; born Amonute, known as Matoaka, 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman, belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia. Pocahontas was captured and held for ransom by English colonists during hostilities in 1613. During her captivity, she was encouraged to convert to Christianity and was baptized under the name Rebecca. She married tobacco planter John Rolfe in April 1614 at the age of about 17 or 18, and she bore their son Thomas Rolfe in January 1615. In 1616, the Rolfes travelled to London where Pocahontas was presented to English society as an example of the "civilized savage" in hopes of stimulating investment in the Jamestown settlement. On this trip she may have met Squanto, a "Patuxet Native American" from New Englan ...
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Matoaca Gay
Matoaca Gay (1841 - 1915)Find A Grave accessed 28 September 2019 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31272542/matoaca-gay was an American writer and literary scholar. She was born in Henrico County, Virginia to Edward S. Gay, and Catherine Tazewell Gay. Seventh in a direct line from Pocahontas Matoaka Rebecca Rolfe, for whom she was named, Matoaca was the eldest of six children. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1882, on the advice of her friend Sue Virginia Swearingen, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field, Field.:File:Matoaca_Gay_-_Shakespeare_clipping.png Society Writer Matoaca Gay wrote a society column under the name of "Bric-a-Brac". Shakespearean Scholar Matoaca Gay became interested in acting when she lived in Richmond, Virginia. She contacted noted Shakespearean actor Lawrence Barrett, who provided books, advice, and became a life-long friend. Her long running private Shakespeare study group was made up of Washington society women. Among others: * Jo ...
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Matoaca, Virginia
Matoaca is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chesterfield County, Virginia, Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,403 at the 2010 census. It is named after the Pamunkey princess Matoaka who was better known by her nickname "Pocahontas". It was near the site of an Appomattoc village Matoka or Matoks, which was reputedly her girlhood home, and the palace town of the ''weroance, weroansqua'' Oppussoquionuske. In 2016 it was listed as No. 42 in CNN Money's Top 50 Places to Live in the United States. History Olive Hill (Matoaca, Virginia), Olive Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The Appomattox River is a nearly 160-mile-long water source once used as a pathway for early colonists. Its name is derived from the Indian tribe that once inhabited its banks. Because the Appomattox runs into the James River, it was a crucial port in Virginia during the Civil War as it allowed for larger ships to dock when necessary. In the spr ...
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