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Pocahontas Cemetery Historic Restorations Recall Multiracial Burials
The Pocahontas Cemetery in Virginia preserves a 19th century burial site born from the 1884 East Mine disaster that killed about 114 workers. Markers in Hungarian Italian Russian Polish and Hebrew honor diverse victims buried side by side in a park like site later restored by Historic Pocahontas Inc the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and the town.
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Tazewell County
Mercer County
McDowell County
Pocahontas
Deep South
Fetta
Pocahontas Cemetery
Historic
Virginia
Iusstonti
Southwest Improvement Company
Virginias
Staunton
Jed Hotchkiss
Southwest Virginia Improvement Company
Pocahontas Cemetery Association
Cemetery Association
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Pocahontas Fuel