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Grundy Town Center was built as part of a $200 million redevelopment which included a Walmart store built on top of a two-story parking garage, the only one of its kind in the United States. [9] Walmart in Grundy. Grundy was the home of the predecessor to the Food City Stores, when Jack Smith opened a Piggly Wiggly franchise in 1955.
The Hurley post office was established in 1893. [2] The community was probably named for Samuel Robert Hurley, a pioneer settler. [3] Located at the mouth of Lester's Fork and along Knox Creek, it became a timbering center in Buchanan County and was the headquarters for the William M. Ritter Lumber Company as well as a station on the narrow-gauge BS&C (Big Sandy and Cumberland) railroad.
The Buchanan County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Grundy, Buchanan County, Virginia. It was built in 1905–06. It was built in 1905–06. The Renaissance Revival style building is the only building in the downtown with pretensions to architectural sophistication.
Buchanan County (/ b ə. k æ n. ə n /) is a United States county in far western Virginia, the only county in the state to border both West Virginia and Kentucky.The county is part of the Southwest Virginia region and lies in the rugged Appalachian Plateau portion of the Appalachian Mountains.
Operation Big Coon Dog was an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) into alleged corruption surrounding the use of federal and state disaster recovery funds by public officials in Buchanan County, Virginia, United States, following severe flooding in the town of Hurley in May 2002.
Grundy Municipal Airport covered an area of 89 acres (36 ha) at an elevation of 2,304 feet (702 m) above mean sea level. It had one asphalt paved runway designated 4/22 which measured 2,256 by 60 feet (688 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2008, the airport had 4,177 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 11 per day.
State Route 83 (SR 83) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.The state highway runs 61.71 miles (99.31 km) from U.S. Route 23 Business (US 23 Business) in Pound east to the West Virginia state line in Paynesville, where the highway continues as West Virginia Route 83 (WV 83).
WMJD is a Classic Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Grundy, Virginia, serving Grundy and Buchanan County, Virginia. WMJD is owned and operated by Peggy Sue Broadcasting Corporation.