Pocahontas

Pocahontas is a Virginia historical marker in Tazewell County, dedicated 1947.

Tazewell County · dedicated 1947 · Rte. 102, just east of Pocahontas

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This region was visited by the explorer, Dr. Thomas Walker, in 1750. Following a report by Captain I. A. Welch in 1873, the first coal mine was opened here in 1882. Shipment of coal followed in 1883, when the Norfolk and Western Railroad reached this point from Radford. First known as "Powell's Bottom", the town was incorporated in 1884 and named for the Indian princess Pocahontas.

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