Pocahontas Historic District | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | March 17, 1972[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 092-0011 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | Corporate boundaries of Pocahontas including cemetery, Pocahontas, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 37.3078°N -81.3428°W |
Architect: | Southwest Virginia Improvement Co. |
Architecture: | Late Victorian |
Added: | November 3, 1972 |
Refnum: | 72001418 |
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.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.