As you travel along Hwy. 3 on the east end of Pocahontas, be sure to stop and pay your respects to the Powhatan Indian Princess who is the namesake of the city.
The large Pocahontas Statue is just standing there all alone on the side of the road with no interpretative sign or historical marker to tell her story. However, a small plaque near the the tail of her front skirt says that the statue was the 1954 project of Albert J. Shaw and Frank W. Shaw.
I learned that the Shaw family of Pocahontas still maintains the statue, a proud symbol of the town and the county that bears her name. She is said to be the "World's Largest Indian Maiden," standing 25 feet tall and 7 1/2 feet across at the shoulders.
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