Preserving Pocahontas

“Hotel Eureka” is front and center on this picturesque postcard of Front Street in Durbin during the early 1900s. The hotel housed a restaurant and sold general merchandise. To the right is the Durbin Drug Company. The brick building in the center of the street is the Durbin Bank. Courtesy of Dollie Varner, Churchville, Virginia, ID: PHP002401

Access the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library at pocahontaspreservation.org or preservingpocahon
tas.org. If you have historical record or photographs to be scanned for the county Historical Archive contact Preservation Officer B. J. Gudmundsson at 304-799-3989 or email info@pocahontaspreservation.org. Prints of photographs from the archives are available.

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