Pocahontas, TN

Pocahontas is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hardeman and McNairy counties, Tennessee, United States. Pocahontas is eighty-three miles southeast of Memphis. Big Hill Pond State Park is nearby. Pocahontas's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Tennessee setting. The local scoop is how Pocahontas's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The community originated in 1828 as a settlement known as Ray's Bluff, located at the confluence of the Hatchie and Tuscumbia Rivers. After a stagecoach line began service in the region, the settlers moved their village to a site on the stage route, on Matamora Hill.