Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near North Cedar Bluff Cedar Bluff, VA

Cedar Bluff is a town in Tazewell County in far southwestern Virginia, and it is part of the Bluefield, West Virginia–Virginia micropolitan area.

The community was founded in 1800 and the town was incorporated in 1912, growing up as a 19th-century mill town on the banks of the Clinch River at the mouth of Indian Creek.

Cedar Bluff had a population of 1,069 at the 2020 census; back at the 2000 census the town counted 475 households within its roughly 2.3 square miles.

The town is centered on the Old Kentucky Turnpike, chartered by the Virginia Legislature in 1848, whose streetscape still looks much as it did in the 19th century; the Old Kentucky Turnpike Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

The historic Clinch Valley Roller Mills, the old grist mill at the creek mouth, is separately listed on the National Register and anchors the historic district.

Cedar Bluff was home to the Clinch Valley Blanket Mill, where the Goodwin family of weavers produced blankets from 1890 through the Second World War.

Cedar Bluff is the birthplace of George C. Peery, born October 28, 1873, who became Virginia's 52nd governor (1934–1938) and the first Virginia governor from the southwestern part of the state; his boyhood home survives in the historic district.

Cedar Bluff Overlook Park sits high on a bluff above the Clinch River and downtown, with an Overlook Trail whose signs interpret the river habitat, including federally listed endangered species, and the geology of the bluff.

Ruins of the old McGuire Mill dam, with an adjoining picnic area and Clinch River access, give the town a second riverfront recreation spot.

The Virginia Civil War Trails program maintains two markers in Cedar Bluff interpreting the town's Civil War battle site.