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Stock Code POC1910 |
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Unissued certificate number 973 from the 1910s in this West Virginia coal
mining company. Ornate
green
border together with a vignette of Pocahontas saving John Smith.
The company was originally formed as the
Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, in 1880 to open and operate a coal
mine and build the mining town of Pocahontas at the terminus of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad line in
Tazewell County, Virginia. Reorganized in 1917 as the Pocahontas
Consolidated Collieries Company, it later became the Pocahontas Fuel
Company.
Certificate size is
29 cm high x 21 cm wide (12" x 8.5").
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