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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.
Location of Tazewell County in Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in ...
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 .
Smith's Fort Plantation is a house and parcel of land located in Surry County, Virginia, United States. The current main house on the property, also known as the Faulcon House, dates from 1751. It is also known as Warren House and Rolfe-Warren House, which has some claim that the house was built in the mid-1600s.
Pocahontas Steamship Company was a steamship shipping company that was founded in 1915 in New York City. Pocahontas Steamship Company mainly operated coal ships, called Collier ship. The coal ships loaded at Norfolk, Virginia and delivered the coal to New England ports. Pocahontas Steamship Company supported the World War II efforts. Pocahontas ...
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.
Pocahontas State Park is a state park located in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States, not far from the state capitol of Richmond. The park was laid out by the Civilian Conservation Corps along the Swift Creek, and at 7,919 acres (32.05 km 2) is Virginia's largest state park. [1] In 2015, the park welcomed 1,142,601 visitors. [2]