Bluefield, Virginia Town of Bluefield, Virginia Official seal of Town of Bluefield, Virginia Nickname(s): Virginia's Tallest Town Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia State Virginia Bluefield is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States, positioned along the Bluestone River.
It is part of the Bluefield WV-VA micropolitan region which has a populace of 107,342.
The micropolitan region is the 350th biggest statistical populace area in the United States.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 7.6 square miles (19.6 km ), all land.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 27.3% from 45 to 64, and 22.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $32,157, and the median income for a family was $44,000.
Bluefield has not always borne the name Bluefield.
The town originated around a small postal service titled "Pin Hook" in the 1860s, titled for a small creek that ran through the community. For a brief time it was known as the commununity of Harman, titled after a Civil War hero from the region who had been shot amid the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain in Pulaski, County, Virginia.
The town was first chartered by the Commonwealth of Virginia as the town of Graham in 1884 and directed under that name until a popular vote that was held on June 10, 1924, after which time it became known as Bluefield, Virginia.
The name change was jubilated in a mock marriage ceremony, which was held in the town/city park between Bluefield, Virginia, and Bluefield, West Virginia, to jubilate the renaming of the town of Graham to match its sister town/city athwart the West Virginia state line.
Bluefield, West Virginia beat Graham, Virginia out as the preferred improve for the Norfolk and Western barns to build its county-wide command posts and chief docking yards for the Pocahontas region.
As a result, Bluefield, West Virginia interval at a much faster rate than its neighbor to the west.
Even after the name change in 1924, the town/city did not start to grew outside of the downtown region until the 1950s, when the town/city annexed the small town of West Graham, Virginia to the west, and then began to grew to the more open non-urban foothills to the south of the city.
As the biggest town in Tazewell County, Virginia, Bluefield underwent a new wave of expansion throughout the 1990s and the first decade of the new millennium.
After a series of devastating floods in the past five years, the town has relocated its town council chambers and police department from the flood-prone historic downtown region to the southernmost point in the town/city at the foot of East River Mountain.
Bluefield, Virginia's most prominent inhabitants are Bill Dudley, an NFL Hall of Famer; New York Giants RB Ahmad Bradshaw; and the widow of actor Lorne Greene, who previously lived in a mansion up on a hill overlooking one of the town's most historic home, the Sanders home.
Mike Davis of MTV's hit tv show "The Real World" is also from the Bluefield area.
The Bluefield Blue Jays, a minor league baseball team, play their home games at Bowen Field, a stadium in the town/city park that serves both Bluefield and its neighbor of the same name in West Virginia.
Although the park is directed by the West Virginia city, the stadium lies entirely inside Virginia.
Hotchkiss, Jedidiah, in "The Virginias: A Mining, Industrial, and Scientific Journal," presented in Staunton, Virginia, 1881, Vol.
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