This 1930s Pocahontas street scene was published in a 1975 Star Herald with the following... Can you identify the site of this scene in Pocahontas in the early 1930s? The photo furnished by George Lewallen, Jr., and was probably taken on a Saturday, as Saturday was the biggest trading day of the week for Pocahontas at that time, and this vacant lot on Everett Street was used by farm families to hitch their teams and wagons while the families were shopping for their week’s supply of life’s necessities, which seemed to be less in those days than today. Most of the farmers carried hay in the rear of their wagons, for the horses to munch upon during the day to keep them quiet while the family was uptown. At the time this photo was made the rears of 3 businesses are shown in the background facing Pyburn Street. At left, a sign above a door reads, “Pocahontas Marble & Granite Works.” This building was occupied along about this time by Alf Lewis’ Grist Mill and J.N. Pratt also operated a grist mill in this building at one time. The building was occupied by Pocahontas TV Cable Co. in 1975. The center building was occupied for so many years about that time by Hiram Brown’s Garage then was later used by General Telephone Co. The two-story building attached to these two buildings (located incenter of photo) housed various businesses during the 1930s. In 1975 it was the site of Trudy’s Town and Country Beauty Shop.
