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    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...
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    that Pocahontas's mother was the first wife of Powhatan and that Pocahontas was named after her. According to colonist William Strachey, "Pocahontas" was...
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    Pocahontas County is a county located in the eastern part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,869. Its county...
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  • Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English...
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  • Pocahontas is the titular character of Walt Disney Animation Studios' 1995 film Pocahontas, and the seventh addition to the Disney Princess franchise....
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    American history. Crucially, Pocahontas became a focal point in all First Family genealogies. So great was the importance of Pocahontas in these family trees...
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    895), also known as the Pocahontas Parkway and Pocahontas 895, is a controlled-access toll road in the U.S. state of Virginia. It connects the junction...
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    Fort Pocahontas was an earthen fort on the north bank of the James River at Wilson's Wharf, in Charles City County, Virginia which served as a Union supply...
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  • acres (140,000 m2) in Tazewell County, just west of the town of Pocahontas, Virginia. The $68.6 million facility was completed in the summer of 2007,...
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  • Pocahontas was a Pamunkey Algonquian chief's daughter from early American history. Pocahontas may also refer to: Pocahontas (1910 film), a silent film...
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    Smith's Satire of Sir Walter Raleigh" David Morenus, "The Real Pocahontas" "Virginia Records Timeline: 1553–1743", United States Library of Congress...
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    was the first United States Navy ship to be named for Pocahontas, the Algonquian wife of Virginia colonist John Rolfe. She was originally commissioned...
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    John Rolfe (category Pocahontas)
    crop. Rolfe married Pocahontas, daughter of Native American leader Powhatan, and they had a son named Thomas. Rolfe and Pocahontas traveled to England...
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    is Pocahontas. The county was formed in 1851. The county is named in honor of Pocahontas, the famous Native American woman from Jamestown, Virginia. A...
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    Pocahontas Coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County/McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell...
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  • Thomas Rolfe (category Rolfe family of Virginia)
    set sail back to Virginia, when Pocahontas was taken seriously ill and died. They disembarked at Gravesend in Kent, where Pocahontas was buried. Thomas...
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  • Jane Rolfe (category Bolling family of Virginia)
    granddaughter of Pocahontas and English colonist John Rolfe (credited with introducing a strain of tobacco for export by the struggling Virginia Colony). Her...
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    in Pocahontas, Virginia east to the Virginia – West Virginia state line between the twin cities of Bluefield, Virginia and Bluefield, West Virginia. Most...
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  • The Turning (1992 film) (category Films set in Virginia)
    The Turning (alternately titled Home Fires Burning, Pocahontas or Pocahontas, Virginia) is a 1992 American independent drama/thriller film directed by...
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    Teddy Weatherford (category People from Pocahontas, Virginia)
    stride pianist. Weatherford was born in Pocahontas, Virginia and was raised in neighboring Bluefield, West Virginia. From 1915 through 1920, he lived in...
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    John Bolling (category Rolfe family of Virginia)
    politician and military officer in the colony of Virginia. He was the great-grandson of Pocahontas and her husband, John Rolfe. John Bolling was the...
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  • Pocahontas County is the name of two counties in the United States: Pocahontas County, Iowa Pocahontas County, West Virginia This disambiguation page lists...
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  • Harrison Ruffin Tyler (category Businesspeople from Richmond, Virginia)
    preserving historical sites such as Sherwood Forest Plantation and Fort Pocahontas, while also donating historical materials to the College of William &...
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    Powhatan (Native American leader) (category People from colonial Virginia)
    Helen C. (2005). Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press. p. 163...
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  • to accompany Pocahontas. Rolfe and Pocahontas have a rocky start, but gradually warm up to each other. In England, Rolfe leaves Pocahontas at his mansion...
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    bituminous coal in the world. The first seam was discovered in nearby Pocahontas, Virginia in the backyard of Jordan Nelson. President Frederick Kimball of...
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  • USS Pocahontas may refer to one of the following United States Navy ships honoring Pocahontas, the Algonquian Indian daughter of Powhatan and wife of...
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  • Pocahontas is a Disney media franchise that commenced in 1995 with the theatrical release of Pocahontas. The franchise is based on the real-life early...
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    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...
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    Pocahontas State Park - official website Civilian Conservation Corps Museum at Pocahontas State Park "Pocahontas State Park: Other info". Virginia Department...
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