Pocahontas County

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The 1999 movie "The Straight Story" starred Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, and Harry Dean Stanton. It was filmed along Alvin's Straight's actual route in Iowa.

Pocahontas County.

There's just one other one.

That's in West Virginia,

Way east of Charleston.


The city with the courthouse here

Is Pocahontas too.

Her statue's 25 feet tall.

I guess the princess grew.


Another town here, name of Rolfe,

The spouse of Pocahontas.

And Powhatan, Plover, Palmer.

Also Varina and Fonda.


David Lynch he made a movie

About Mister Alvin Straight,

Who rode his power mower

From Laurens across the state.