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Article: Where in Mississippi is ... Pocahontas: legends take flight in a tiny Hinds County town.(SMALL-TOWN SPOTLIGHT)(Company overview)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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The little Hinds County community of Pocahontas has roots deep below its red clay soil and wings high above the treetops.
The town, located along the county's northwestern border, was founded in 1884 when landowner J.E. Lane granted the right-of-way through his property to the Illinois Central Railroad. Like so many other small Mississippi towns, once the railroad moved in, so did the people--farmers, merchants, and dozens of others looking for a new place to call home. The settlers decided to call their town Pocahontas because of two tall Indian mounds here--though the famed Native American heroine actually never set foot on Mississippi soil.
The two ...