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Bluefield

Town in southwestern Virginia, 120 km/75 mi west of Roanoke, in the Appalachian Mountains; population (1990) 5,400. It neighbours the city of Bluefield in West Virginia. Together, their economy is based on the coal, iron, limestone, and silica mines in the area; products include mining equipment and textiles. There are also some lumber mills.

Bluefield is the seat of Bluefield College (1920).

Bluefield

City in southern West Virginia, at the foot of East River Mountain, adjacent to Bluefield, Virginia; population (1990) 12,800. The economy is based on coal and railway transport.

The community expanded with the opening of the huge Pocahontas coalfield in 1889 to service by the Norfolk and Western Railway. Bluefield State College (1895) is here.



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