Named for the Indian chief's daughter Pocahontas, the Pokahuntas Bell was created in 1907 to hang in the Kentucky Building, a recreation of Fort Boonesborough, at the Jamestown Exposition.
[2] The author Livia Nye Simpson Poffenbarger was a lifetime member of the group.
[3] Crafted in the McShane Foundry in Baltimore, Maryland, it contained a melted-down spur from Confederate Major John Pelham, a bracelet from Chief Pugallop, an armour plate from the CSS Virginia warship and nails from Libby prison.
[4] Edith Wilson, the future First Lady of the United States, gave a key to her New Jersey home to include in the cast.
[5] The plating had been donated by the United States Navy, in a joint resolution.