A two-block stretch of Scott Street north of the main downtown is the surviving fragment of Bluefield's pre-civil-rights African-American business district — restaurants, barbershops, the Liberty Theatre, and the Booker T. Washington Hotel, all of which were listed in the Green Book through the 1940s and 1950s. Most of the buildings still stand and several carry interpretive plaques put up after the district was federally listed in 2020.
The district is a five-minute walk north of the main downtown and an essential stop for understanding how segregation actually worked at street level. A self-guided walking tour pamphlet is available from the Craft Memorial Library.