Pocahontas Historic District

Corporate boundaries of Pocahontas including cemetery, Pocahontas and, Virginia. County/parish: Tazewell.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 03, 1972. NRIS 72001418.

17 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

Pocahontas Historic District

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 in the town of Pocahontas. Notable buildings include the City Hall (1895), the stone Episcopal Methodist Church, Catholic Church, the old brick medical dispensary, a Synagogue, the first millinery shop in the coalfields (now the Emma Yates Memorial Library) and a Masonic Hall.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683962

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