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unusual facts about Bluefield, WV



Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency

In 1910, the name of the agency was changed to the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency, headquartered in Bluefield, West Virginia.

Bluefield

Bluefields, a similarly named city in Nicaragua's South Atlantic Autonomous Region

Bluefield Blue Jays

On August 28, 2010, Andy MacPhail, then-president of baseball operations for the Baltimore Orioles announced that Baltimore was ending their affiliation with Bluefield and the Appalachian League, effective at the end of the 2010 Appalachian League season.

Bluefield State College

In 1927 and 1928, Bluefield State was voted the Black college football national champion by the Pittsburgh Courier.

Bluefield, Virginia

Bluefield, Virginia's most prominent residents 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 atop a hill overlooking the town's most historic home, the Sanders house.

ESPN Radio 1050

WAMN, a radio station serving the Bluefield, WV market

Ezra Cline

The three cousins worked in the coal mines during the week and played music on the weekends until 1938, when they left Mingo County, WV for Bluefield, WV to perform on WHIS radio.

KIMT

In 1980, it was sold again to the Shott family of Bluefield, West Virginia and their Daily Telegraph Printing Company.

Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs

Williams finished high school and while on the road with the band (after their station wagon broke down in Bluefield, West Virginia), the band came across a small car known as the Zodiac and changed their name.

WAMN

WAMN is a Classic Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Green Valley, West Virginia, serving Bluefield in Virginia and Bluefield and Princeton in West Virginia.


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