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Pocahontas Historic District

Pocahontas Historic District
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Pocahontas Historic District is located in Virginia
Pocahontas Historic District
Pocahontas Historic District is located in the US
Pocahontas Historic District
Location Corporate boundaries of Pocahontas including cemetery, Pocahontas, Virginia
Coordinates 37°18′28″N 81°20′34″W / 37.30778°N 81.34278°W / 37.30778; -81.34278Coordinates: 37°18′28″N 81°20′34″W / 37.30778°N 81.34278°W / 37.30778; -81.34278
Area 380 acres (150 ha)
Built 1881 (1881)
Architectural style Late Victorian
NRHP Reference # 72001418
VLR # 092-0011
Significant dates
Added to NRHP November 3, 1972
Designated VLR March 17, 1972

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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