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The first Lowe's store, Mr. L.S. Lowe's North Wilkesboro Hardware, opened in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1921 by Lucius Smith Lowe. [8] After Lowe died in 1940, the business was inherited by his daughter, Ruth Buchan, who sold the company to her brother, James Lowe, for $4,200, [ 9 ] that same year.
Nitro is a city in Kanawha and Putnam counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It takes its name from a World War I era nitrocellulose plant. The population was 6,618 according to the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
Lowes Foods in Simpsonville, South Carolina. Lowes Foods is an American supermarket chain based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.The chain initially grew in the mountains of North Carolina and rural areas of Virginia, but, starting in the late 1990s, it expanded in metropolitan areas of North Carolina and South Carolina.
The U.S. economic downturn of the early 1980s hit West Virginia particularly hard, and the store faced increased competition from other chains. In February 1987 a $125 million merger agreement with New York City -Based Toussie-Viner Group was terminated due to weak performance by Heck's in the final months of 1986, and the company filed for ...
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Big Bear Stores was an American regional supermarket chain operating in the U.S. states of Ohio and West Virginia between 1933 and 2004. The company was founded in Columbus, Ohio, and was headquartered there until its acquisition by Syracuse, New York–based Penn Traffic in 1989.
View east along WV 25 at WV 62 in Charleston WV 25 crosses the Kanawha River at the Richard J. "Dick" Henderson Memorial Bridge between St. Albans and Nitro.. West Virginia Route 25 is an east–west state highway located within the counties of Kanawha and Putnam in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Exterior view of Mercer Mall, June 2013. Mercer Mall is a shopping mall serving Bluefield, West Virginia.Opened in 1980, the mall features J. C. Penney, Belk, Roses, Rural King, and Hobby Lobby, Five Below and seventy other store areas, most of which have been vacant for five or more years.