VLR # 092-0011 Area 154 ha Added to NRHP 3 November 1972 | NRHP Reference # 72001418 Designated VLR March 17, 1972 Year built 1881 | |
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Location Corporate boundaries of Pocahontas including cemetery, Pocahontas, Virginia | ||
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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