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"Clinch River Days" is a festival to celebrate mountain heritage and takes place in St. Paul each spring. [19] Best Friend Festival held in Norton, VA annually. The Virginia-Kentucky District Fair is held each summer in Wise. The Wise County Famous Fall Fling is an annual event held in Downtown Wise. [20]
Boggs was born in West Norton, Virginia, in 1898, the youngest of ten children.In the late 1890s, the arrival of railroads in central Appalachia brought large-scale coal mining to the region, and by the time Dock was born, the Boggs family had made the transition from subsistence farming to working for wages and living in mining towns.
Norton is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in the far western tip of the state in Wise County, Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,687, [6] making it the least populous city in Virginia. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Norton with surrounding Wise County for statistical purposes.
The Raider football team competed in the Virginia state finals three times between 2003 and 2006 and won the state title in 1972. [6] In the 2006 state finals the Raiders came close to a second state title, finishing with a score of 21-20 against the Riverheads Gladiators from Staunton, Virginia .
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Rebecca Ferguson. Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born 19 October 1983) [3] is a Swedish actress. She began her acting career with the Swedish soap opera Nya tider (1999–2000) and went on to star in the slasher film Drowning Ghost (2004).
1955-2009. Vernon Crawford (Jack) Cooke (December 6, 1936 – December 1, 2009) was a bluegrass music vocalist and instrumentalist, known for playing the guitar and bass with artists such as Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. He was one of nine siblings (four brothers and four sisters) and was a native of Norton, Virginia.
December 5, 2001 [2] Hotel Norton is a historic hotel building located in Norton, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a six-story Colonial Revival style building consisting of a cut sandstone base, brick middle, and a deep stone and wood entablature. The interior features a two-story lobby with a decorative mezzanine level balcony.