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  2. Pocahontas Island - Wikipedia

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    Pocahontas Island is a peninsula in Petersburg, Virginia, once on the opposite side of the Appomattox River from Petersburg. Since 1915 a new channel for the river separated it from Chesterfield County and the former channel no longer separates it from the city. Once a warehouse and wharf-filled urban landscape initially platted in 1749, the ...

  3. Pocahontas, Virginia - Wikipedia

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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 Jamestown Settlement . The town was founded as a company mining town by the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company in 1881.

  4. John Rolfe - Wikipedia

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    John Rolfe (c. 1585 – March 1622) was an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export.

  5. First Families of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy. According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613.

  6. Pocahontas (1995 film) - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $55 million [3] Box office. $346.1 million [1] Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company. The film romanticizes Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith and her legendary saving of his life.

  7. Julio Rodriguez finally gets to celebrate 1st home run of the ...

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    May 12, 2024 at 5:02 PM. SEATTLE (AP) — It took 22 games, but Julio Rodríguez finally left the yard at home. The Seattle Mariners slugger hit his first home run at home this season in Sunday ...

  8. Pocahontas Historic District - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Pocahontas - Wikipedia

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    Pocahontas ( US: / ˌpoʊkəˈhɒntəs /, UK: / ˌpɒk -/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief [2] of ...