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About Pound, VA

The Flat Gap High School and Sunnydale Farm are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Author and motivational speaker Napoleon Hill was born in Pound in 1883. On November 30, 1927, Leonard Woods, a black coal miner and resident of Jenkins, Kentucky, was lynched on the Virginia-Kentucky border in Pound, Virginia. Woods had been jailed in Kentucky for the murder of 29-year-old Herschel Deaton of Coeburn, Virginia, following an altercation on November 27. On the night of the lynching, a crowd estimated between 400-500 surrounded the Kentucky jail Woods was held in and demanded he be released to their custody.