Monacan Tribe Fights for Historic Site Faced With Construction

WMRA | By Mallory Noe-Payne

Published September 5, 2019 at 9:53 AM EDT

East of Charlottesville, at a point where two rivers merge, there’s a little-known site with great historical value. For centuries, it was home to the chief village of the Monacan Indian Nation. Today, the Monacan Tribe is fighting to keep the area untouched... as officials in Fluvanna and Louisa Counties push to put a water pump there. Virginia Public Radio’s Mallory Noe-Payne has the story.

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Mallory Noe-Payne

Mallory Noe-Payne is a freelance reporter and producer based in Richmond, Virginia. Although she's a native Virginian, she's most recently worked for public radio in Boston. There, she helped produce stories about higher education, including a nationally-airing series on the German university system. In addition to working for WGBH in Boston, she's worked at WAMU in Washington D.C. She graduated from Virginia Tech with degrees in Journalism and Political Science.

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