SOCA fields off Polo Grounds Road

• Q: Why is the current site of the SOCA fields off Polo Grounds Road historically significant?

  A) It’s where “Monasukapanough”, a prominent Monacan Chief’s village first documented by Captain John Smith in 1612, was located

  B) It's just across the river from where the bones of 1,000 people were discovered

  C) It’s where Thomas Jefferson became known as “the father of American archeology”

  D) All of the above

  E) None of the above.  Offsides! It is just a soccer field!

  Answer: D) All of the above

Review the photos below and find more information at the following sites:

• https://www.cvillepedia.org/Monasukapanough

• https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jeffersons-mound-archaeological-site/

• Here is a great site for more information, but it’s link and security protocols are outdated, so it doesn’t work from some browsers. To access it, click the link below, then delete the first part of the URL from “https” to “http”…

  http://www.virginiaplaces.org/nativeamerican/monacantribe.html

• Learn what else Captain Smith had to say about the native people of Virginia., our Mawchick chammay. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/a-map-of-virginia-with-a-description-of-the-countrey-the-commodities-people-government-and-religion-by-john-smith-1612/

• https://youtu.be/b_SxIV46cQA - At minute 16:00 the presenter says “every schoolkid knows it”. Do yours?