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.

She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit " Fever " written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport, to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics (" Romeo loved Juliet ," " Captain Smith and Pocahontas ") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's " Is That All There Is ?".

* December ( early ) – Captain John Smith of the Jamestown Colony is captured by Opechancanough and then sent to Chief Powhatan for execution ; Pocahontas rescues him.

This is replaced by a short re-enactment of Disney's Pocahontas at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

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

Pocahontas County is the home to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Green Bank Telescope and is part of the National Radio Quiet Zone.

This is very clear in Disney's Pocahontas, in which Pocahontas asks the counsel of grandmother Willow.

Pocahontas County is a county located in Iowa, United States.

The county seat is Pocahontas.

The county seat is Pocahontas.

Pocahontas is a city in Randolph County, Arkansas, United States, along the Black River.

Ransom S. Bettis is given the distinction of being the first settlers on the land that is now called Pocahontas.

Pocahontas is located at ( 36. 263560 ,-90. 973349 ).

* Dr. Larry P. Arnn, a Pocahontas native, is currently president of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.

Pocahontas is home to the Pocahontas Public Schools, which are made up of Alma Spikes Elementary School, M. D. Williams Intermediate School, Pocahontas Junior High School and Pocahontas High School.

Pocahontas ' school mascot is the Redskins.

Pocahontas is home to St Paul Elementary School.

Pocahontas is the home of Black River Technical College.

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

Bettis and Drew led the founding of Pocahontas as the county seat of Randolph County.

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

Supposedly, at the county meeting to determine which city would receive the honor, the delegation from Pocahontas brought in large quantities of alcohol and distributed them to the other delegations.

He erected the first log house in Pocahontas county.

It is the county seat of Pocahontas County.

In 1836, Drew and Bettis held an infamous free barbecue complete with free liquor for the entire county in Pocahontas ( then known as Bettis Bluff ).

The next day, the grateful attendees chose Pocahontas as the county seat in an upset election over the more populated community of Columbia.

That same year, Drew gave the county land in downtown Pocahontas where a courthouse was constructed.

The four panels depict: The Preservation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas ( 1825 ) by Antonio Capellano, The Landing of the Pilgrims ( 1825 ) and The Conflict of Daniel Boone and the Indians ( 1826 – 27 ) by Enrico Causici, and William Penn ’ s Treaty with the Indians ( 1827 ) by Nicholas Gevelot.

* 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.

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.

Two surviving houses in the Pocahontas Island Historic District are associated with it.

While the KRLW & KIYS radio stations are broadcast centrally to the Walnut Ridge / Hoxie area ( a neighboring community roughly 15 miles away ), the actual broadcasting location as well as main offices are centered with KPOC inside of Pocahontas.

Pocahontas was the location of the start of this region's coal boom with a spur line that launched the Norfolk and Western Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ) into national prominence during the 1880s.

Pocahontas celebrates July 4th with the best fire works celebration the area has to offer.

On Labor Day each year, Pocahontas is home to the Coal Miners Reunion, which brings together retired coal miners and railroad workers from across the United States to be honored by the town with a parade and luncheon.

The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development awarded the Town of Pocahontas with a $ 1, 000, 000. 00 grant to help fund their Downtown Revitalization project currently underway.

In Herbert Bouldin Hawes ' 1930 novel The Daughter of the Blood, Virginia Dare is involved in a romantic triangle with John Smith and Pocahontas.

It was released theatrically in the United States with Pocahontas.

Farrell played the leading role of Captain John Smith, the founder of 17th century colonial Jamestown, Virginia who falls in love with a beautiful Native American princess, Pocahontas, played by Q ' Orianka Kilcher.

Relationships must be carefully maintained with Indians and other colonial powers, from waging war and maintaining strategic defences to offering tributes or " recruiting peacemakers " ( Benjamin Franklin and Pocahontas ).

It is a tourist site as well as being the parish church, because of its connection with Pocahontas.

He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.

Bolling Sr. later had children with Jane Rolfe, the granddaughter of Pocahontas.

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.

In the local tribe in the New World, Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, dreads being possibly wed to Kocoum, a brave warrior whom she sees as too " serious " when conflicting with her spirited personality.

Pocahontas, along with her friends, the gluttonous raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit, visit Grandmother Willow, a spiritual talking willow tree who alerts her to the presence of the Englishmen.

Pocahontas introduces Smith to Grandmother Willow and avoids two other crewmen ; however, Pocahontas ' friend Nakoma discovers her relationship with Smith and warns Kocoum.

In the end, Smith is forced to return home to get treatment, with Pocahontas and Chief Powhatan's blessing to return in the future.

Travelling to Virginia in 1611, he was a popular religious leader with both settlers and natives, and was responsible for the baptism and conversion of Pocahontas.