Qualla: Chippokes State Park https://qualla.com/chippokes-state-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/7/chippokes-state-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Chippokes State Park https://qualla.com/chippokes-state-park Chippokes State Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/chippokes-state-park/ Photo credit Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0. The name Chippokes is older than English Virginia. It comes from Choapoke, the contact-era weroance of the Quiyoughcohannock people, whose ancestral lands were bounded by Upper and Lower Chippokes Creek - nearly a hundred square miles, at least four towns, and an economy built on the river. The Quiyoughcohannock were part of the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom. Their land was ceded to English colonists by 1619. The same year, the Virginia Company gave a 750-acre slice of it to Captain William Powell, an Ancient Planter, and named the tract Chippokes Plantation. Four centuries later, fields and orchards still spread across the land Choapoke once governed. It is one of the oldest continuously farmed properties in North America - and one of the few that still carries the name its first stewards used.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/7/chippokes-state-park-wp/dq97-chippokes-state-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chippokes State Park: Choapoke's People https://qualla.com/chippokes-state-park/ Photo credit Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0. The Quiyoughcohannock built their lives around the south-bank tributaries of the James River. Agriculture, trade, and the local waterways gave their territory enough wealth to support at least four towns within a hundred-square-mile range. When the English arrived in 1607, the Qu...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/7/chippokes-state-park-wp/dq97-chippokes-state-park-choapokes-people.mp3 0:06 2 full Chippokes State Park: Ancient Planters and Absentee Lords https://qualla.com/chippokes-state-park/ Photo credit Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0. Captain William Powell, who received the original 750-acre grant in 1619, was an Ancient Planter - a settler who had survived ten years at the Jamestown settlement. He died four years later, and Chippokes passed through his infant son George, the Osburne family, and back into the...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/7/chippokes-state-park-wp/dq97-chippokes-state-park-ancient-planters-and-absentee-lords.mp3 0:06 3 full Chippokes State Park: The Brandy and the Civil War https://qualla.com/chippokes-state-park/ Photo credit Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0. Chippokes got its first non-absentee owner in centuries in 1837, when 22-year-old Albert Carroll Jones moved in. He doubled the footprint of the c. 1830 River House in 1847 and planted orchards of apple and fig, distilling brandy from the fruit. After his first wife died in 1850,...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/7/chippokes-state-park-wp/dq97-chippokes-state-park-the-brandy-and-the-civil-war.mp3 0:06 4 full Chippokes State Park: The Stewarts' Gift https://qualla.com/chippokes-state-park/ Photo credit Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0. In 1918, Victor Stewart and Thornton Jeffress, co-proprietors of the Petersburg-based Colonial Pine Company, bought Chippokes at auction. They intended to log it. But Victor and his wife Evelyn moved in instead, restoring the historic mansion and the formal gardens through the 19...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/9/7/chippokes-state-park-wp/dq97-chippokes-state-park-the-stewarts-gift.mp3 0:06 5 full Chippokes State Park: Fossils and Farm https://qualla.com/chippokes-state-park/ Photo credit Virginia State Parks staff, CC BY 2.0. Today the park covers more than 1,400 acres, including the original Chippokes tract and Walnut Valley. The Chippokes Farm and Forestry Museum, opened in June 1990, spreads across five buildings interpreting Tidewater farming from 1619 to 1950, with reconstructed farmhouse interio...

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