Land once slated for resort returns to Rappahannock Tribe

Virginia’s Rappahannock Tribe has regained almost 1,000 acres of ancestral land along the cliffs that line the tribe’s namesake river. With the new plot of land, the tribe now stewards 1,435 acres along Fones Cliffs. The area has one of the largest concentrations of nesting bald eagles in the mid-Atlantic, according to the U.S. National Park Service. The site was also home to three of the Rappahannock communities that encountered and resisted Captain John Smith in 1608.