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Pocahontas

Ballet by Elliott Carter, composed 1936–39 and first produced in New York on 24 May 1939. Pocahontas (1595–1617) was an American Indian princess who befriended the early settlers in America.

Pocahontas

Town in Tazewell County, southwestern Virginia, USA, on the West Virginia border, 8 km/5 mi northwest of Bluefield; population (1990 est) 500. Formerly a coal mining town in the middle of the Pocahontas coalfield, a major source of soft coal, its mining operations ceased in the 1950s, and the workings have become a tourist attraction. The town was established with the arrival of the Norfolk and Western railway in the field in 1882.
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