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First Community Bank Selects Jack Henry Banking to Provide Enterprise-Wide ...

MarketWatch (press release) - Feb 22, 2012
First Community Bancshares, Inc., headquartered in Bluefield, Virginia, is a $2.16 billion financial holding company and is the parent company of First Community Bank. First Community Bank operates through fifty-one locations in the four states of ...

First Community Bank Selects Jack Henry Banking to Provide Enterprise-Wide ...

PR Newswire (press release) - Feb 22, 2012
First Community Bancshares, Inc., headquartered in Bluefield, Virginia, is a $2.16 billion financial holding company and is the parent company of First Community Bank. First Community Bank operates through fifty-one locations in the four states of ...

Area Business Prepares to Hire 150+ Workers

WVNS-TV - Feb 9, 2012
"With Bluefield Beverage leaving, even though it was in Bluefield, Virginia, physically...a lot of the people that worked there were in Mercer County. They'll hopefully be able to stay here with new jobs coming in, that support our taxes, our city.

A foxtrot called Taj Mahal

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Firstpost - Feb 12, 2012
He'd come a long way from his hardscrabble childhood in the coal-mining town of Bluefield, Virginia. Weatherford had burst into the spotlight in the early 1920s with the Jimmy Wade orchestra in Chicago. In 1925, he performed alongside Louis Armstrong ...

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Bluefield, Virginia )

(Paperback)
by: Louise B. Leslie, Dr. Terry W. Mullins
Bluefield is truly Virginias tallest town. The towns elevation is officially 2,389 feet, with East River Mountain reaching 3,700 feet at the towns southern limit. In its long, illustrious history, the community has had four distinctive names. The small, agricultural community began as Pin Hook. Then the town became Harman in honor of a local Civil War hero, E. H. Harman. With the arrival of the railroad, the town was first incorporated under the name of Graham in 1884 in honor of the Philadelphia engineer and promoter Col.
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Bluefield Virginia West Virginia 1961 City Directory

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Bluefield

(Paperback)
by: William R. "Bill" Archer
The remarkable story of Bluefield represents a unique combination of geology, geography, and opportunity. Once just the confluence of a handful of family farms in southern West Virginia, Bluefield was put on the map, literally,

in the 1880s, when the Norfolk & Western Railway came to town. The company's influence on the rural landscape was overwhelming, and soon, Bluefield was transformed into the center of a coal-fired universe and became a major thoroughfare for the then-thriving mining industry.
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Bluefield In The 1940S, WV )

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by: William R. "Bill" Archer
Almost every American city enjoys a magical time in history when all the tumblers of fate, luck, hard work, and good fortune seem to fall into place, and the city enjoys a golden era. The 1940s were just such a time in the city of Bluefield. At the dawn of the decade, the United States was on the verge of entering the greatest war the world has ever known, and the coal that flowed through Norfolk and Western Railways Bluefield yard was destined to fuel an Allied victory. But there is so much more than war and coal at the heart of Bluefields story.
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