* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.

* 1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

* Civilian Conservation Corps Museum at Pocahontas State Park, Chesterfield, Virginia

* Frank, West Virginia, unincorporated community located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA

John Gadsby Chapman depicts Pocahontas, wearing white, being baptized Rebecca by Anglican minister Alexander Whiteaker in Jamestown, Virginia ; this event is believed to have taken place in 1613 or 1614.

* April 13 – Samuel Argall captures Algonquian princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.

* July – Algonquian princess Pocahontas meets English colonist John Rolfe in Henricus, Virginia during her captivity.

* April 5 – Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia.

* January 30 – Thomas Rolfe, Virginia colonist and son of Pocahontas

Neither Pocahontas or Dale see Virginia again.

In some areas, new road projects have been completed with public-private partnerships funded by tolls, such as the Pocahontas Parkway ( I-895 ) near Richmond, Virginia.

Kimball's interest in geology was instrumental in the development of the Pocahontas coalfields in western Virginia and West Virginia.

Pocahontas County is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

* Pocahontas County, West Virginia – west

This city was named after the Englishman John Rolfe who married Pocahontas in Jamestown, Virginia.

The town was named after John Randolph, a Virginia congressman and senator, and a descendant of Pocahontas.

Bluefield, West Virginia beat Harman, Virginia out as the preferred community for the Norfolk and Western railroad to build its regional headquarters and main docking yards for the Pocahontas region.

Pocahontas is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, named for the Algonquian Indian woman Pocahontas.

Pocahontas, Virginia, a different location outside of Tazewell County, was added to Petersburg, Virginia in 1785.

The town also features a registered Virginia Historic site, the Pocahontas Cemetery.

According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.

Baptism of Pocahontas was painted in 1840.

Jefferson's son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. was a lineal descendant of Pocahontas.

She was also a lineal descendant of Pocahontas.

The New World, which featured a romantic interpretation of the story of John Smith and Pocahontas, was released in 2005.

In Pocahontas, he was going to voice a turkey named Redfeather.

He was also the father of Pocahontas, whom colonists perceived as friendly.

Wittontown, north of the river, was settled in 1749, and became incorporated as Pocahontas in 1752.

For years the center of the free black residential area was Pocahontas Island, a peninsula on the north shore of the Appomattox River.

John Rolfe, the widower of Pocahontas, wrote in a letter that he was at Point Comfort and witnessed the arrival of the first Africans.

Major Bolling was the son of Col. Robert Bolling and his first wife Jane Rolfe, who was granddaughter of the early colonist John Rolfe and his Native American wife, Pocahontas.

It was here that Pocahontas was buried after dying on a trip to England.

Ellisville, the county seat, was named for Powhatan Ellis, a member of the Mississippi Legislature who claimed to be a direct descendant of Pocahontas.

Pocahontas County was formed in 1851.

Drew Bowers, the Republican nominee for governor of Arkansas in 1926 and 1928, was originally from Pocahontas.

Named after Father James P. O ' Kean of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Pocahontas, O ' Kean was located around the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad.

Local legend holds that Pocahontas was named the county seat through an act of trickery.

When the time came to vote, the only delegation that was not passed out or otherwise influenced, was that from Pocahontas.

* Wear Schoonover, Pocahontas native, was the first University of Arkansas athlete in any sport named to an all American team.

The public offices and public buildings used for the creation of the government of Pocahontas County was located at what is now referred to as " Old Rolfe.

Stories about historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, George Washington's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebellum period, have also created potent myths of state history, and have served as rationales for Virginia's ideology.

* June 12 – Pocahontas ( now Rebecca ) arrives in England, with her husband, John Rolfe, their infant son, Thomas Rolfe, her half-sister Matachanna ( alias Cleopatra ) and brother-in-law " Tomocomo ", the shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin.

After the war, in 1784 Petersburg annexed the adjacent towns of Blanford ( also called Blandford ) and Pocahontas and the suburb of Ravenscroft, which became neighborhoods of the city.

The practice of hiring singers to " fill in " for voice actors in a singing role has also seen change, as both Jeremy Irons and Mel Gibson have done singing in the respective films The Lion King and Pocahontas, rather than have a singer as substitute ( However, the former did most of his own singing, but due to straining his vocal cords, he didn't finish ; instead, Jim Cummings did his partial singing voice for the rest of the song ).

Pocahontas is also home to KPOC / KRLW / KIYS Radio stations.

Pocahontas is also a Preserve America Community.

Pocahontas was also the birthplace of jazz pianist Teddy Weatherford.

The Town of Pocahontas also operates a water treatment plant and distribution system for the town and surrounding communities in both Virginia and West Virginia.

The film is the first animated feature Disney film to be based on a real historic character, based on the known history and also the folklore and legend that surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that arrived from the Virginia Company.

Irene Bedard, who was the speaking voice of Pocahontas, portrayed Pocahontas ' mother in a flashback sequence also in The New World.

He has also contributed lyrics for a number of successful films, including Pocahontas ( 1995 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ), Pippi Longstocking ( 1997 ), The Prince of Egypt ( 1998 ; music and lyrics ) and Enchanted ( 2007 ).

They also appeared in the straight-to-video sequel Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World ( 1998 ).

It was also screened along with Disney's 1995 animated blockbuster Pocahontas.

A burial mound, reported to contain the remains of Chief Powhatan, Father of Pocahontas ( real name Matoaka ), is also located on this Reservation next to railroad tracks.

He was also a video reference crew for the Disney movie, Pocahontas.

She also recorded " If I Never Knew You ," a duet with Jon Secada, for the original soundtrack of Disney's 1995 film Pocahontas.

She has also participated in several Grammy Award-winning albums, sang the Academy Award-winning song " Colors of the Wind " on the hit soundtrack of the 1995 film Pocahontas, and is admired for her voice and interpretive skills.

Kuhn also sang as Pocahontas in the straight-to-video sequel Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World and in " If You Can Dream ", a Disney Princess song.

The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place from September 12 to 15, 1861, in Pocahontas County and Randolph County, Virginia ( now West Virginia ) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War.