Pocahontas Historic District is a national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located at
Pocahontas in the
Pocahontas coalfield,
Tazewell County, Virginia. It is near
Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine
Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine, also known as Pocahontas Mine No. 1, or Baby Mine, is an inactive coal mine in the Pocahontas Coalfield, in Pocahontas in western Virginia. The mine was the first in the sub-bituminous coal of the Pocahontas Coa ...
, 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.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
References
Historic districts in Tazewell County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Tazewell County, Virginia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
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