Virginia's First Coal Town - DanTraveling

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Between Two Hills, the Story of Pocahontas, Virginia.
Also a special thanks goes out to The Mayhem String band, YouTube's own Jeff Williams, and Nashville songwriter Betsy Ulmer for allowing us to use their music for this project.


This town was Virginia's first coal boom town. There are very few Americans who have not been touched by the far reaching influence of the Pocahontas Fuel Company. The coal extracted by Pocahontas Fuel served nearly 1/2 of the country. The numerous mines once employed nearly 100,000 people and it was all headquartered here in this small town in the mountains. Many awesome historic buildings and sites in this town face demolition by neglect unless something changes.

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[telsport]

Superior long form cinematic journalism.

What rail line brought out the coal? My granddaddy was the chief dispatcher of the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio RR which ran from South Carolina to Virginia with HQ in Erwin TN..was it the CC and O?

Tom in Utica NY

[dmccoig]

(From Wiki) In 1885, several small mining companies representing about 400,000 acres (1,600 km²) of bituminous coal reserves grouped together to form the coalfields' largest landowner, the Philadelphia-based Flat-Top Coal Land Association. Norfolk and Western Railway bought the Association and reorganized it as the Pocahontas Coal and Coke Co., which it later renamed Pocahontas Land Corp, now a subsidiary of Norfolk Southern.

[dmccoig]

I almost forgot, Thanks Tom for the nice comment. The Little River Railroad Museum has some great history of rail in Townsend Tennessee.. Mostly Logging, but still cool.

[cloudpounder]

I am from Boone County West Va. maybe you could come up and Ill give you a tour of my great hometown!! I'd do it, but could never do as good a job as you would do!!

Happy Traveling!!

[dmccoig]

Thank You so much CP,

We will look you up the next time we head up to the wonderful state of WV to film. It is awesome up there and the folks are always so nice to us.

[mellyvel1]

well the true story of pocahontas is that she was a native american princess, she fell in love with a white guy, then she trust him and he lied to her, after the white guy and the inmigrant soldiers destroyed and killed all her town, her people, and her father, and bcuz she was a princess she was burn alive, its just that the usa goverment change the story cuz they dont want their own people know the true story of what happened to her....THATS THE TRUE STORY.....

[TessRemlingaacx1]

huhuhat jemand lust zu schreibn oder pic tausch mir ist soo langweilig

[kissfanjohn]

Why dont you cross the state line into West Virginia! are you affraid? Look at Bramwell WV... 2 miles away! Thats history. yeah Poci is great blah blah blah, but 2 miles away lies the greatest story of heritage, history and hard work, West Virginia! #1... This country owes my state a debt of gratitude! And in true WV style... we dont like your kind around here! Go home.

[davelusk]

My Uncle Rand Wagner managed the Company store in the 50's and 60's until he died. My Aunt Gerry lived in thehouse on the corver of Jockey and St Clair until her death in the mid 90's.

[drsambone]

I wish they would restore the whole town and bring jobs to the locals.

[rasberry123]

We use to go from Roanoke to Pocahontas in the 1940;s and 50s to get truck loads of coal for $3.25 a load.

Went back to Pocahontas on vacation 4 years ago and all of the houses on the hill except 2 were burn or rotted down. It was really depressing and a shame. The town people there are the nicest you will ever meet. They do have a very aggresive police force running radar there. I guess it the way they support their town ( no I did not get stopped).