Dale's Pale Archeological District is a set of historic

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s and national

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located near

Chester Chester is a cathedral city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, Wales, River Dee, close to the England–Wales border. With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, it is the most populous settlement in the borough of Cheshire West an ...

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. The district consists of a collection of four county owned archaeological sites. They are the location of a defensive palisade built by Sir

Thomas Dale Sir Thomas Dale ( 157019 August 1619) was an English soldier and colonial administrator who served as deputy-governor of the Colony of Virginia in 1611 and again from 1614 to 1616. Dale is best remembered for the energy and the extreme rigour ...

in 1613 around the original settlement at

Bermuda Hundred Bermuda Hundred was the first Hundred (county division), administrative division in the English overseas possessions, English colony of Virginia Colony, Virginia. It was founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1613, six years after Jamestown, Virginia, ...

, which he founded. It is a two mile long, berm-and-ditch feature, running between the high banks overlooking the James and Appomattox Rivers. The other sites within the district include a Middle Woodland Period (500 BC– AD 200) settlement, and a late 17th- or early 18th-century house with its associated dump. It was listed on the

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in 2007.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Geography of Chesterfield County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Chesterfield County, Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia {{ChesterfieldCountyVA-NRHP-stub