Pocahontas Fuel Company operated mines in the state of Virginia in

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and Amonate, and in West Virginia at Jenkinjones,

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, and Itmann. Pocahontas Fuel Company founded the Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company in 1907. In 1956 Pocahontas was acquired by the

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. Consolidation Coal Company became Consol Energy in 1991. Consol Energy mines coal at Amonate. Pocahontas Fuel Company used the Norfolk & Western Railway bring the coal to ports for shipment.

Pocahontas Coalfield

Pocahontas Coalfield is a large high quality coal deposit in Mercer County/ McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. The deposit mining started in 1883 in

Pocahontas, Virginia 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 ...

at Pocahontas Mine No. 1, now on the

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. The coal seams—Pocahontas No. 3, No. 4, No. 6, and No. 11—are some of the finest coal in the world, and are rated at 15,000

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/ lb (35 MJ/kg).

Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine

Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine is a U.S. National Register of Historic Places, as it is the first

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mine in the Pocahontas Coalfield. In 1938 it was opned to the public, thus becoming the first exhibition coal mine in the United States.

Pocahontas Fuel Company Store

Pocahontas Fuel Company Store and Office Buildings is a historic company store and an office building located at Jenkinjones, McDowell County, West Virginia. Both buildings were designed by architect Alex B. Mahood and built in 1917. They were listed on the

in 1992.

Pocahontas Steamship Company

Pocahontas Steamship Company was a

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shipping company that was founded in 1915 in New York City. Pocahontas Steamship Company mainly operated coal ships, called Collier ship. The coal ships loaded at

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and delivered the coal to

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ports. Pocahontas Steamship Company supported the

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efforts. Pocahontas Steamship Company closed in 1961.

World War II

Pocahontas Steamship Company fleet of ships were used to help the World War II effort. During World War II Pocahontas Steamship Company operated Merchant navy ships for the

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. During World War II Pocahontas Steamship Company was active with charter shipping with the

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and

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. Pocahontas Steamship Company operated ships for the merchant navy. The ship was run by its Pocahontas Steamship Company crew and the

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supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio.World War II U.S. Navy Armed Guard and World War II U.S. Merchant Marine, 2007–2014 Project Liberty Ship, Project Liberty Ship, P.O. Box 25846 Highlandtown Station, Baltimore, M

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Ships

Some ships owned: *Isaac T. Mann, coal ship, named after banker Isaac T. Man, he was on the company's board. *Freeman *Joe Nancy *Oakley L. Alexander (I), bow sank March 3, 1947 one mile southeast of

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, in very heavy seas. *Oakley L. Alexander II, a Victory ship, SS Laconia Victory *Lynchburg Victory built in 1945,acquired in 1952 renamed Pocahontas Fuel, converted to 7,828 gtons collier. *Consolidation Coal, a Type T2 tanker ship, was the Redstone, built in 1945, acquired in 1958 *SS William H. Machen sank on July 7, 1942, off New Hampshire in collision with ship Maid of Stirling a Stirling Shipping Company ship.AP, Divers probe little known shipwreck off New Hampshire coast, By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR, November 13, 2017
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References

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