The headstone at 12:10 is in the Hungarian language. Translated, it reads "Here lies Mihaly Szatmary Born June 12 1885 Died October 7, 1922 Peace to the ashes." My great-grandfather John Newton moved to Pocahontas from NC in the late 1880s and one of his first jobs was working for the coal company there as a translator for the Hungarian miners. Thank you for this excellent video!
I lived in Pocahontas as a child. My grandparents, Gaspar and Susan Nagy lived there up on the hill in front of the elementary school next to the catholic church. The house is still standing....my grandfather built it. It was a great place to grow up in the early 50's. You did a great job with the video. Thanks!
This is such a cool video. I was recently in Pochahontas learning a lot about it because my Grandfather was born and raised there. He took me out and we spent the day there and a few other places nearby that he used to do stuff in. The history of this place is astoundingly wonderful and very much overlooked when it seems like in its hayday it was a very important place in our history. We didnt visit the cemetery so Im glad you went through it. I want to return one day and visit it as well.
What a great video! Thank you!!! I love learning the history of old towns. So many stories to tell, so many secrets to keep. You should do a follow up video and talk to the people who once lived there.
You should do a video on Honaker, VA. Great town with rich history. My hometown and I'm proud to say it. There's also a lady in white at what the locals call the Finney tunnel. I got a guy I know who supposedly saw her one night.
The tombstones are Hungarian. My grandparents and parents were hungarian and I grew up in Pocahontas. My mother was Irene nagy Smolarick. My grandparents lived at the top of Water street. Gaspar and Suzy Nagy. I lived on Maple Grove what's now Kennedy Street I believe. Miss it very much. 😢
Seeing how you lived there do you have photos of the town while you lived there that you could share with us. I photo shoot that area and always looking to see what it was like in its hay day’s. Sad to see it in the shape it is now and had to be a beautiful town one time with a great deal of history. Thanks for this RU-vid channel and the hard work he puts into the videos he does to explain life back then.
Thank you for posting this! My grandparents and aunts and uncles are from Pocahontas. I have great memories of going there as a child and even an early teen.
I have binged half the day on your videos! This town was in bad shape years ago last time I went thru it, It was in the 90s and after church, we would drive from Tazewell to a restaurant and eat. It was a really good restaurant served excellent Food. I forget the name of it. Now; those buildings are in worse shape.f
Just stumbled upon this video. Thank you so much for giving more historical background on the town my grandmother grew up in. Her father, Joseph Miller, owned the other store in Pocahontas known as "Miller's Store" from the late 1890s into I think the 1930s. My grandparents married there and my uncle was born there. The store thrived along with the Company store for many years. Do you have any information on my great grandfather's store? Also, do you have pictures of the one room schoolhouse where my grandma went to school?
Down next to road is where I believe there are the headstones of those that were murdered. Very controversial case. If you don’t know about it, and interested, just google the Pocohauntas murders. I heard, , and I may be wrong, that they were buried there so people driving by would never forget. I understand if you have to delete this comment.
Beautiful video did a photo shoot in that town and so sad it looks like it does today. Would love to have a time machine to go back and see the town in its heydays for it looked like a beautiful town. I see someone removed the fire truck from in side the fire office. Video was very informative and very well done.
Does anyone know who took the old fire engine out of the fire office? A fire chief in Greer, SC refurbished a fire truck just like that one and he houses it at one of the cities substation. Hope who took the truck they did it to restore it.
Thanks for the video. Nice job. I played in that company store when I was growing up there..lol. I spent the first 20 years of my life there and in Pocahontas and it's sad to see it today...Thanks again and very nice history.
I know how you feel, it breaks my heart to go back because all our people have passed away now and the town is a shell of it's former self. I married into the Smith family basically. You might have remembered Harry and Eva Moore from Abbs Valley, they were always involved in something in Pokey as they called it. I have been visiting down there since 1978, I shopped for groceries in the company store turned into the IGA Grocery. I seen it when it fell down just after and it felt like somebody in my family had died! I know that sounds silly but it was a connection to a better time when people were more considerate and polite. Anyway when I read your comment I thought I would comment back.
@@catheyahannas3240 Yes it's sad to see it now. I also seen photos after the IGA fell. I had been going to that store my whole life...the names sound very familiar and I'm sure I would know them. Hopefully one day it will get better there. Thank you for the comment. Be blessed
My grandpa was born in Boisevain Virginia he born in 1976 in December he cut timber along side his dad on top of the mountain he is alive and well -vince cuh younger cousin
Great video and especially of the store in Boissevain. The store in Pocahontas fell into disrepair was was eventually blown in on itself b yt the Derecho of what I beleve was 2010. There are many different opinions of why this happened and lots of "discussions." Thanks again.
