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Downtown Roanoke
Downtown Roanoke celebrates the vibrant history of a community that lies at the heart of the scenic Roanoke Valley. From the saloons and livery stables of the late 19th century to …
Wonder stories of science
Truth vs. Untruth: A Study for the Benefit of Mankind
The Roanoke Valley in the 1950s
Norfolk and Western Railway Stations and Depots
The tracks of the Norfolk and Western Railway snaked through Virginia,s Shenandoah Valley and the coalfields of West Virginia. For nearly 100 years, the Norfolk and Western brought …
Industrial Democracy in America
Industrial Democracy in America begins its close examination of what came to be known among collars of any colour as 'the labour problem' with the railroad strikes of the 1870s. …
Norfolk and Western Railway
Roanoke in Vintage Postcards
Officially chartered in 1882, Roanoke is nestled among the Blue Ridge Mountains and is often referred to as the "e;Star City of the South."e; The history of this remarkable …
Roanoke Valley in the 1940s
The history of the Roanoke Valley during the 1940s has largely been unexplored until now. This significant decade bore witness to the birth of the local civil rights movement, the …
Virginia Tech
130 years after its opening, the once small agricultural college has become Virginia's largest university- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.When Charles Minor …
Norfolk and Western Railway
Through the images and stories of the people who built it, discover the fascinating history of a railway established to fuel the nations' appetite for coal and that grew into so …
Hidden History of Roanoke: Star City Stories
How did a Roanoke neighbor's secret upend North Carolina politics and why did a weeding scandal in Big Lick make front-page headlines in New York? These questions and many more are …