Bluefield
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. Though the company,not the coal,was king in Bluefield, enterprising men and women could, and did, share in itssuccess. The city evolved into a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4396-1081-7
- EAN: 9781439610817
- Produktnummer: 28053909
- Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 53'254 KB
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