Powhatan supervisors deny school board's bid to demolish Pocahontas Landmark Center

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A historic school building in Powhatan County will seemingly stick around after a county supervisors vote last week to save it from demolition.

The Powhatan Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to deny the county school board’s permit request to demolish parts of the Pocahontas Landmark Center at 4290 Anderson Highway.

The vote against allowing the demolition is the latest step in a years-long debate over what to do with portions of the partly vacant center, several areas of which have been deemed “unsafe” and contain mold and standing water.

In July, an application for a demolition permit was filed by the Powhatan County School Board, which owns the site. The demo plan calls for the removal of around 39,000 square feet of structures at