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Subject: [VACHESTE] Re: Pocahontas
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 22:08:49 EDT

I just talked to my father who was born (in 1934) and raised in Petersburg.
He said that the only way to access Pocahontas Island was by way of an access
road off of the Colonial Heights/Petersburg bridge. This is now the Martin
Luther King, Jr. bridge. He said that in the 1940s and early 1950s there was
only one white family living on Pocahontas Island - a family with the last
name Soko. He said that everyone living on the island was extremely poor.
In the late 1940s there was a slaughter house on the island where they killed
cows and pigs. The owner was Bob Max Sanford who lived in Colonial Heights
at the time. He said that there were other businesses on Pocahontas Island
owned by white people, but none of them lived there. Many of the people
living on Pocahontas Island are of families that have lived there for over a
hundred or more years. I wonder if anything has ever been written about the
history of Pocahontas Island? Wanda in Virginia

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