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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 ...
Pocahontas is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. It was named for Chief Powhatan 's daughter, Pocahontas , who lived in the 17th-century Jamestown Settlement . The town was founded as a company mining town by the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company in 1881.
Location of Chesterfield County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chesterfield County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States.
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 .
Pocahontas Island's large free black residential community is the oldest in the nation and its commercial center developed into a destination for the state's free blacks. By 1797 free blacks established the Sandy River Baptist Church, and some members in 1818 moved across the then-river channel into the city's center and built the Gillfield ...
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 ]
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 ...