Last updated: 3/5/2012
1192 Occoneechee Park RoadClarksville, VA 23927
The park has a museum with a life-size example of a Native American hut with pelts as well as camping, hiking trails and boat launch ramps on the shore of John H. Kerr Reservoir.
From 1250 to 1670, the Occoneechee Indians lived on an island on the Roanoke River near what is now Occoneechee State Park. In 1676, Virginia Councilman Nathaniel Bacon led a group of men from Henrico County to destroy the Occoneechees. Bacon’s attack succeeded only in slaughtering Indians that were perhaps the friendliest to settlers in the Commonwealth. Neither Governor Berkeley nor most Virginians approved of Bacon’s actions.
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