Pokahuntas Bell

Named for the Indian princess Pocahontas, the Pokahuntas Bell was created in 1907 to hang in the Virginia Building at the Jamestown Exposition. The push to create the bell was led by the Pocahontas Bell Association, created by Anna S. Green of Culpeper, Virginia. The author Livia Nye Simpson Poffenbarger was a lifetime member of the group. Crafted in the McShane Foundry in Baltimore, Maryland, it contained a melted-down spur from Confederate Majo... more

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