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The Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum is a historic community building at 1708 Archer Street in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Originally built as an African Methodist Episcopal Church and known as St. Mary's AME Church, it is a small one-room wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and novelty siding. A flat-roof addition expands the building to the right.
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 mine was the first in the sub-bituminous coal of the Pocahontas Coalfield, opening in 1882. In 1938 it became the first exhibition coal mine in the United States . Uniquely, it was possible to drive one's automobile through the mine, entering through the fan opening and exiting through the original entry.
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.
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 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 (US: / ˌ p oʊ k ə ˈ h ɒ n t ə s /, UK: / ˌ p ɒ k-/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine - Pocahontas, Virginia, United States [1] Fell Exhibition Slate Mine - Trier, Germany; Phillips-Sprague Mine - on the National Register of Historic Places in New River Park, Beckley, West Virginia [2]