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Pocahontas Historic District is a national historic district located at Pocahontas in the Pocahontas coalfield, Tazewell County, Virginia. It is near Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine, a U.S. National Historic Landmark which was Mine No. 1 of the Pocahontas coalfield. The district encompasses 17 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure ...
The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development gave the town a $1,000,000 grant to help fund their downtown revitalization. In 2012, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Historic Pocahontas to preserve buildings slated for demolition and redevelop them instead. The lawsuit stopped the revitalization project, which was never completed.
Pocahontas Island is a peninsula in Petersburg, Virginia, once on the opposite side of the Appomattox River from Petersburg. Since 1915 a new channel for the river separated it from Chesterfield County and the former channel no longer separates it from the city.
Mar. 25—POCAHONTAS, Va. — Historic structures that stood for more than a century are going down after time and the elements started bringing their bricks down and turning them into safety hazards.
Pocahontas Coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County/McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. [1] The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in Pocahontas, Virginia in 1883 [ 2 ] at Pocahontas Mine No. 1 , now on the National Register of Historic Places .
The site is also notable for its history of coke production on site for transportation by rail to steel mills. Pocahontas coal was especially suitable for coking, and played a significant role in the industrial development of the United States. Coke and coal were shipped by rail to Norfolk, Virginia for trans-shipment to eastern US ports and ...
The dive team at Pocahontas State Park recommends some form of shoes to be worn to help plungers walk down and up the boat ramp. 2024 Richmond Polar Plunge at Pocahontas State Park on December 9 ...
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly used the name "Pocahontas" to bash Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "Pocahontas" was the nickname of a teenage girl who was abducted by English colonists in 1613 and ...