BM 001 Back Creek School
description: Students at old Back Creek School on Landmark Circle in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 022 Haran PO
description: 1905 postal receipt for Haran Post Office, signed by “D. Kittinger, postmaster”.
creator: USPS
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1905
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 023 John Harris Family
description: Family of John and Sarah (Hayes) Harris. L to R: Sarah Jane, William, Lutie, Susie, Elisha, George, John, Eliza, and Benjamin. The family lived in the Back Creek section of Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1890
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 024 Martin-Simpson Cemetery
description: Mountain burial in family cemetery, probably Martin-Simpson cemetery near Martins Creek Road in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 025 Daniel and Louisa Simpson
description: Louisa (Martin) and Daniel Simpson. The Simpsons lived on Martins Creek Road in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 026 Simpson Home
description: Home and family of Daniel Simpson on Martins Creek in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1905
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 027 William and Mary Grisso
description: William and Mary Katherine (Poage) Grisso residents of Cave Spring section in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 028 Grisso Home
description: Home of John and Susie (Harris) Grisso in Cave Spring, Roanoke County. The home burned in 1946.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 029 Cave Spring Baptist
description: Cave Spring Baptist Church
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 031 R.T. Fralin
description: R.T. Fralin, Sr., Ran Lynn Drive in Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Jane Fralin Grisso
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 032 Fralin Home
description: Fralin home in Cave Spring.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Jane Fralin Grisso
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 033 Fralin Barn
description: Fralin barn on Ran Lynn Drive in Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Jane Fralin Grisso
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 035 Fralin Home
description: Fralin home on Ran Lynn Drive in Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Jane Fralin Grisso
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 036 R.T. Fralin
description: Riley T. Fralin, Sr, and Jr. at intersection of Ran Lynn Drive and Poage Valley Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1944
contributor: Jane Fralin Grisso
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 039 Nadine Henderson
description: Aunt Nadine Henderson takes nephews and nieces for an afternoon ride in Back Creek. Standing L to R: Bobby, Nadine, David and Charles Ed Henderson; On horse L to R: Paige Riley, Ray Henderson Corky, Barbara & Kay Henderson, Brent Riley.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1945
contributor: Genevieve Henderson
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 041 Back Creek School
description: Back Creek School with "new" addition.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930s
contributor: Genevieve Henderson
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 042 Back Creek School
description: Back Creek School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930s
contributor: Genevieve Henderson
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 043 Back Creek School
description: Students in front of Back Creek School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1917
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 045 Haran Baptist
description: Haran Baptist Church
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Lorene Preas
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 046 Haran Baptist
description: Youth in front of Haran Baptist Church. Front row, L to R: Gaynelle Simpson, Shirley Rierson; Second row, L to R: Preston Webster, Ruby Kirkwood, Nelson Simpson; Back row, L to R: Jimmy Kirkwood, Lorene Simpson, Polly Rierson, Norris Webster
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1943
contributor: Lorene Preas
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 047 Omer Simpson
description: Omer C. Simpson. Simpson lived on Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1958
contributor: Lorene Preas
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 048 Omer Simpson
description: Omer C. Simpson
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Lorene Preas
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 049 Martin Creek Children
description: First row, L to R: Albert Turner, ? Webster; Second row, L to R: Janette Turner, Nelson Simpson, ?, O.C. Simpson, Jr., Third row, L to R: Francis Simpson, Colleen Grubb, Christine Simpson, Beatrice Peters, ?, Lorene Simpson; Back row, L to R: Vinson Simpson, Raymond Martin, Arlee Turner, Evelyn Webster, Cornelia Simpson, Ralph Martin, Lester Turner; taken on Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940s
contributor: Lorene Preas
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 050 Tinsley and Altis
description: Hazel Tinsley and Mauvieleen S. Altis in front of Back Creek Elementary School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1945
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 051 Back Creek School
description: W.F. Bolton's 8th grade class at Back Creek School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1953
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 052 Altis Group
description: L to R: Joe Beard, Effie Beard, Mauvieleen Stanley, Nannie Bracy, Edna Altis, Mary Altis, Nannie Altis, Clarence Altis, Clara Altis, Willie Bracy
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940s
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 053 Beard Group
description: L to R: Joe Beard, Mildred Beard, Charles Altis, Effie Beard, Willie Bracy, Mauvieleen Stanley, Clarence Altis
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: December 1948
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 054 Christley Family
description: Front row, L to R: William Gilford Christley Jr., Ivy Mae Christley, Louise Christley, William Gilford Christley Sr., Grant Christley; Back row, L to R: Monroe Christley, Elsie Christley, Milan Christley, Glenna Christley, Bertha Christley, Arlen Christley
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Debra Christley
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 056 Christley Family
description: Front row, L to R: Louise Christley Williams, George Franklin Christley, Iva Mae Christley Ferguson, Elsie Christley, Bertha Christley, ?, Back row, L to R: Bill Christley, Pauline Christley, Monroe Christley, Thora Christley, Milan Christley, Margaret Christley, Arlen Christley, Glenna Christley Millward, Melvin G. Christley, Claude Christley
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Debra Christley
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 057 Poage Store
description: Former Elijah Poage store/warehouse on Old Mill Road in Poages Mill.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Debra Christley
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 058 Christley Family
description: Photo taken in front of the Christley Homeplace on Mt. Chestnut Road in Roanoke County; Seated L to R: Margaret Powell Christley, Arlen F. “Pete” Christley; Standing, L to R: Keith B. Christley, Warren Christley, Joyce Christley Clowers, Michael Christley, Arlen G. “Jerry” Christley.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Debra Christley
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 059 Back Creek School
description: Back Creek High School. L to R: Gertie Hopper, Glenna Christley, Camile Lavender, Cleda Grisso, Elsie Christley; man at back is Shelton Gates.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1933
contributor: Debra Christley
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 061 Back Creek High School
description: Back Creek High School. Pictured are: Teachers Grant McGhee, Elsie Kennedy and Ann Hogan McGhee, George Beach, Paul Ferguson, Bowman Ferguson, Clifton Grisso, Wilson Moser, Edwin Garner, Aaron Martin, Clayton Tinnell Sr., Kenneth Grisso, Carl Wade, Howard Bohon, Cleda Grisso, Gay Beckner, Aubrey Kesseler, Ernestine Cawley, Melvin Grisso, Evelyn Kesseler, Irene McIntruff, Leonard Kingery, Doris Agee, Monroe Christley, Ruth Saunders, Beulah Riley. Order unknown
creator: W.F. Jackson
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Debra Christley
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 065 Reeds Store
description: Reed’s Store at the intersection of Route 221 and Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 066 Fats Reed
description: Marvin P. “Fats” Reed at the counter in Reed's Store at the intersection of Martins Creek Road and Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: July 1957
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 067 Riersons Grocery
description: Rierson’s Grocery on Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1973
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 068 Rock Store
description: Rock store near Poage Farm on Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1989
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 069 Back Creek Elementary School
description: Back Creek Elementary School under re-construction.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: July 1989
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 070 Martin, Simpson and Day
description: L to R: Ned Martin, Omer .C. Simpson, Jr., Charles Day and Gordon Willett (background) at Haran Baptist Church.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 071 Martins Creek
description: The woman sitting in the wagon is Annie Blankenship Martin, the man at right is Olvin Martin; American Chestnut in background; photo probably taken in Martins Creek Road area of Roanoke County. All others unidentified.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 072 Martin Women
description: Photo taken at Thelma Willett’s home. Seated front, L to R: Marilyn Givens, Norma Jean Martin; Seated middle, L to R: Mae Austin Martin, Pearl Martin Wertz; Standing, L to R: Edith Martin Filson, Dorothy Martin Bass.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1951
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 073 Alfonso Martin
description: Alfonso Martin, a resident of Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 074 Tilden Martin
description: Tilden Hendrix Martin, a resident of Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 075 Simpson Children
description: Omer C. Simpson, Jr., Christine Simpson, Lorene Simpson, residents of Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 076 Nelson Simpson
description: Nelson Simpson, a resident of Martins Creek Road. Photo probably taken at home of his parents O.C. and Mary Simpson.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 077 Martin Siblings
description: L to R: Tilden H. Martin, Gertrude Martin Duling, Alfonso Martin, Otey Martin.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 078 Martins Creek
description: Back row, far left Annie Blankenship Martin, Olvin Martin; far right Louisa Martin, Daniel N. Simpson. Photo taken in front of the Martin-Simpson homeplace on Martins Creek Road. All others unidentified.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 080 Martin Home
description: Olvin Martin home, built in 1877, was located on Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: July 1968
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 081 Martin Barn
description: Tilden Martin and Lamar Martin barn on Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 082 Band Saw
description: Idle band saw at Lamar Martin farm on Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1982
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 083 Sam Hailey
description: Sam Hailey and his work mules.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 084 Spray Engine
description: Raleigh “Buck” Owens' spray engine for use in orchard.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 085 Simpson Barn
description: Omer Simpson barn on Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1982
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 089 Poage Home
description: Home of Mary (Mollie) Poage across the creek from the Poage farm on Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1919
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 090 Poage Farm
description: Poage home and farm along Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1939
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 091 Poage Deed
description: 1840 deed for 66 acres belonging to Jane Poage as part of land granted to her from her father, John Poage.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 3 March 1840
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 092 4-H Club
description: Back Creek 4-H Club.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1957-1958
contributor: Jane Fralin Grisso
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 093 Rettinger Sisters
description: Sarah Rettinger Henry (left) and Nannie Rettinger Grisso.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1890
contributor: Walter Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 094a Henry Home
description: Home of Samuel Henry.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Walter Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 094b Henry Family
description: James and Sarah Henry and three daughters in Poages Mill area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1875
contributor: Walter Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 095 BCS Girls Basketball Team
description: Back Creek School girls basketball team. Pictured are Margaret Henry Hartman and Mildred Henry Dimond. All others unidentified.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Walter Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 096 BCS 1932 Class
description: Senior Class at Back Creek School
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1932
contributor: Walter Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 097 Back Creek Students
description: Back Creek School students. Pictured are Principal Grant McGee, teacher Ann Hogan, who later married McGee. All others unidentified.
creator: W.F. Jackson
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Walter Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 098
description: Students at Back Creek School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Walter Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 100 LDS Chapel
description: First Mormon chapel in Southwest Roanoke County, located on Bearing Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1900
contributor: Don Debusk
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 101 Wade Family
description: W.L. and Icie Wade (seated center) Family.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1947
contributor: Don Debusk
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 102 Ferguson Sisters
description: Ferguson sisters (top) and Christley home on Mt. Chestnut.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930s
contributor: Don Debusk
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 103 Ferguson Family
description: L to R: Rachel Ferguson, Walter Ferguson, Ocieola Ferguson, Isadora Ferguson, Ivie Ferguson, Charles Ferguson, James Ferguson, William H. Ferguson
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1890
contributor: Don Debusk
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 104 Ferguson Family
description: Top photo, pictured: Jim Ferguson, Ivie Ferguson, Herbert Henderson, Maggie Ferguson, Margaret Rachel Ferguson, William H. Ferguson, Bertha Wade, Henry Wade . Bottom photo, pictured L to R: Ivie Ferguson, Jim Ferguson, Icie Ferguson, Aunt Paulina, Margaret Rachel Ferguson, Uncle Barney, Maggie Ferguson (in chair).
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Top: Circa 1906; Bottom: Circa 1893
contributor: Don Debusk
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 105 Margaret and William Ferguson
description: Margaret Rachel Owens Ferguson and William H. Ferguson.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Don Debusk
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 106 Wade Family
description: 1. Isadora Ferguson Wade, 2. William Lee Wade, 3. Oren Wade, 4. Henry Wade, 5. Barney Owens. Photo was taken at the apple orchard at the Wade home. All others unidentified.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1906
contributor: Don Debusk
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 107 Henry Wade
description: Charcoal drawing of Henry Booker Wade.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1870
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 108 Pine Hill School Deed
description: Deed to Pine Hill School, formerly located on Twelve O’Clock Knob Road.
creator: Roanoke County
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 15 January 1910
contributor: Don Debusk
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 110 Henry Wall
description: Portion of rock wall, built by Ralph Henry’s great grandfather, along Corntassel Lane. The wall still exists today.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Ralph Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 115 Bell Label
description: Packing label for L.D. Bell and T.M. Bell at Poages Mill.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 116 Harvey Poage
description: Harvey Claytor Poage.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 117 Poage Family
description: Poage Family in front of engine on farm. L to R: Harvey Poage, Bill Poage, Lee Poage, Lucy Poage
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 118 Charlie Poage
description: Charlie Poage, son of William Poage, with team of horses in front of Poage farmhouse on Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 119 Back Creek Children
description: Unidentified children at Back Creek School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 123 Back Creek 6th Grade
description: 6th graders in Back Creek School classroom.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1953
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 124 Ice Cream at Lunch
description: Miss Annie Bohon sells ice cream during lunch at Back Creek Elementary School. The ice cream cooler was inside the front door of the school.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 125 Back Creek Elementary
description: Back Creek Elementary School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 127 Back Creek School
description: Students and teachers in front of Back Creek School. Ann Hogan w/tie upper left of group (principal/teacher),
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 128 Turner Home
description: Turner home on Martins Creek Road in its final days.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Late 1980s
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 129 Johnnie and Bertha Grubb
description: Johnnie and Bertha Grubb making apple butter.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1980s
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 130 Ed Sloan
description: Ed Sloan, auctioneer, with Harold Ferguson in background
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1982
contributor: Joyce M. Turman
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 131 Poage Men
description: L to R: Henry Lee Poage (1891-1960), Arthur Seibert “Ott” Poage (1897-1971), Harvey Claytor Poage (1893-1928) in front of Poage farmhouse
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: Lynne Mowles
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 132 Poage Men
description: L to R: Arthur “Ott” Poage, Henry Lee Poage, Charles Claytor Poage (1848-1931), Harvey Claytor Poage, David Meador
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: Lynne Mowles
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 134 Wheeler and Bessie Beckner
description: Wheeler and Bessie Beckner in front of home, presently located at 7041 Cotton Hill Road
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1915
contributor: Grandle Meador
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 135 Wheeler and Bessie Beckner
description: Wheeler and Bessie Beckner and John Steele (left) at home on Cotton HIll Road. They logged timber for railroad ties.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
contributor: Grandle Meador
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 136 Beckner Home
description: Beckner homeplace on Cotton Hill Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: Grandle Meador
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 140 Mildred and Roscoe Meador
description: Mildred and Roscoe Meador wedding photo; Wheeler Beckner on porch.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1954
contributor: Grandle Meador
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 141 Grandle, Tina, Alice, Buddy
description: Grandle Meador, Tina, Alice and Buddy Welcher at Beckner home.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1959
contributor: Grandle Meador
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 142 Route 419
description: Aerial view of Route 419 under construction at Chaparral Drive; Penn Forest Boulevard at bottom.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1970
contributor: Carole Hawkins
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 143 Route 419
description: Aerial view looking north at Route 419 construction. The house and barn were located at the current site of the Roanoke County Administrative Offices on Bernard Drive. The earth moving equipment is at the current intersection of Route 419 and Bernard Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1970
contributor: Carole Hawkins; Stephen E. Fox
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 144 Green Valley
description: Aerial view showing Green Valley Elementary School, upper right.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1970
contributor: Carole Hawkins
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 145 Route 419
description: Aerial view to the northeast of current Route 419 at intersection with Ogden Road. Ogden Road is seen at the top of the photo. At top, right is Ogden Elementary School. The area to the right of the railroad tracks is Cox Communications and Old Country Plaza on Fallowater Lane and Starkey Road. The area above the railroad tracks and behind Ogden Elementary is now Honeywood Apartments. Green Valley subdivision is now located in the area in the bottom left.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1970
contributor: Carole Hawkins; Stephen E. Fox
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 147 Arlene Stanley
description: House owned by Mrs. Saul, who lived at Starkey; torn down in the 1970s; across from Haran Baptist Church. Stanley family moved there in 1943. Arlene Stanley on porch.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1945
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 148 Clarence Altis and Robert Carroll
description: House owned by Mrs. Saul, who lived at Starkey; torn down in the 1970s; across from Haran Baptist Church. Stanley family moved there in 1943. Clarence Altis (left) and Robert Carroll.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1945
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 149 Roma Stanley and Clarence Altis
description: House owned by Mrs. Saul, who lived at Starkey; torn down in the 1970s; across from Haran Baptist Church. Stanley family moved there in 1943. Photo taken on Easter Sunday shows Roma Stanley (left) and Clarence Altice.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1953
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 150 Mauvieleen Altis
description: Mauvieleen Altis in front of house.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1947
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 151 Mauvieleen, Robert and Arlene
description: Mauvieleen Altis, Robert Carroll and Arlene Stanley.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 152 Clara Altis and Arlene Stanley
description: Clara Altis and Arlene Stanley.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1950
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 153 Arlene Stanley and Clara Altis
description: Arlene Stanley and Clara Altis at Back Creek Elementary School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 154 Back Creek Girls
description: L to R: Martha Tinsley, Alrene Stanley, ?, Mauvieleen Altis, Hazel Tinsley, Ethel Stump.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 157 Altis Home
description: Charlie and Minnie Altis home, formerly located on road leading into Old Mill Plantation subdivision from Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 158 Charlie and Minnie Altis
description: Charlie amd Minnie Altis with Forrest and Florence Sloan.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1944
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 159 Charlie Altis
description: Charlie Altis in his apple orchard on hill behind Altice home.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 160 Ed and Viola Sloan
description: Ed and Viola Sloan.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1955
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 161 Altis Family
description: Bobby, Joyce, Hazel and Robert Altis.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: July 1961
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 164 Ballard Family
description: Sarah and Ballard Martin in front of home. Ballard was a carpenter and farmer.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: David Martin
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 166 Look Out Lodge
description: Look Out Lodge postcard, Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Bob Stauffer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 167 Hubert Harris
description: Hubert Earl “Hub” Harris.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1908
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 169 Ballard and Sarah Martin
description: Ballard P. and Sarah Martin
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 170 Hubert and Ola Harris
description: Hubert Earl Harris & Ola Agee Harris lived where Starkey ball fields are today.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 174 Fralin Baptism
description: James C. Fralin being baptized in Back Creek at Poages Mill in 1925 by Chris Eller, Brethren minister.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1925
contributor: Marie Saul
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 175 Lucy, Molly and Jeff
description: Lucy Dyer Poage, Molly Gregson, Jeff Gregson, making apple butter at home in the Poages Mill area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1952
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 176 Haran Baptist
description: Haran Baptist Church
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Lorene Preas
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 177 Poage Family
description: Mary Catherine “Molly” Poage, Sara Poage (standing, left), Harvey Poage (standing, right), Lee Poage (on lap).
creator: Lineback Studios
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1890
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 178
description: Students and teachers in front of Back Creek School.
creator: W.F. Jackson
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1929
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 179 Back Creek School
description: Students and teachers in front of Back Creek School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1917
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 180 Kittinger Chapel
description: Kittinger Chapel was located on Landmark Circle in Roanoke County. It was razed in the early 2000s.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 183 Mary Poage
description: Mary Catherine Sloan Poage
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
contributor: Molly Koon
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 184 Emily Bohon and Bessie Brown
description: Emily Bohon and Bessie Brown
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1912
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 185 Ruby Holt
description: Ruby Holt in front of Holt’s Store on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1941
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 186 Tinsley Home
description: Home of Dr. E.O. Tinsley on Bent Mountain. The home was called “Sunny Side”. Tinsley’s office was located on right, front corner of porch. The home was on Tinsley Lane. It was razed in the 2000s.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 187 Fletcher Holt
description: Col. Fletcher Holt with a snake around his neck. Holt was a taxidermist on Bent Mountain
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 188 Clyde Bohon
description: Clyde Bohon, who bought Holt’s Store on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM189 Fletcher Holt
description: Col. Fletcher Holt in his store on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 191 Mount Olivet Baptist
description: Mount Olivet Baptist Church on Route 221, Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1984
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 192 BMHS May Court
description: May Court at Bent Mountain High School. May Queen (far right) is Carrie Marie Bell; Maid to the Queen (second from right) is Mamie Logan; crown bearer is John Poff, flower girl is Jean Ferguson; Maids are Laura Metz, Bertha Janney, Betty Sisson, Doris Bell, Mildred Logan, Pearlie Wimmer, Doris Reed, and Ruby Holt (order is not provided on photo)
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1945
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 193 Bent Mountain Marble Players
description: Marble players at Bent Mountain School. L to R: Hilton King, Herbert Craighead, Namon Conner, Arnold Mills, Melvin Manning (school champion), Harold Thompson, Fletcher Wimmer.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1945
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 194 Reed's Store
description: Reed’s Store at the intersection of Route 221 and Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1941
contributor: Lou Emma Richards
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 195 Reed's Store
description: Reed’s Store after the 1948 addition of Dairy Diner, located at the intersection of Route 221 and Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1949
contributor: Lou Emma Richards
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 196 Reed's Store
description: Interior of Reed's Store, located at the intersection of Route 221 and Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Lou Emma Richards
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 198 Reed's Store
description: Reed’s Store at the intersection of Route 221 and Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1945
contributor: Lou Emma Richards
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 199 Reed's Store
description: Reed’s Store at the intersection of Route 221 and Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1949
contributor: Lou Emma Richards
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 202 Conner Baptism
description: Baptism of Mary Ann Conner, wife of G.W. Conner, by Elder Leonard Brammer of the Laurel Ridge Primitive Baptist Church, at Fralin home.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: December 1962
contributor: Mary Ann Conner
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 203 Laurel Ridge Primitive Baptist
description: Laurel Ridge Primitive Baptist Church, located on Roselawn Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1998
contributor: Laurel Ridge Primitive Baptist Church
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 204 Bellview Primitive Baptist
description: Bellview Primitive Baptist Church, located on Roselawn Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1965
contributor: Laurel Ridge Primitive Baptist Church
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 205 Lavinder Home
description: Hezekiah Lavinder (seated) and his family at their home (located at entrance to Bridlewood, home still standing) off of Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Laurel Ridge Primitive Baptist Church
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 206 Pigg River Primitive Baptist
description: Elders of Pigg River Primitive Baptist Association at Basham Church in Stewartsville, Virginia.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1934
contributor: Laurel Ridge Primitive Baptist Church
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 207 Laurel Ridge Church
description: Rendering of original log Laurel Ridge Church by Joey Meador.
creator: Joey Meador
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Laurel Ridge Primitive Baptist Church
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 221 Haran School
description: Present-day residence that was the former Haran School, located at 7910 Bent Mountain Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Lou Emma Richards
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 222 Ralph Henry
description: Ralph Henry of the Back Creek Baseball Team. Uniform says Finnell’s, as Finnell & Sons sponsored the team.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
contributor: Ralph Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 223 Back Creek Baseball
description: Spectators at Back Creek Elementary School for Back Creek baseball game.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1948
contributor: Ralph Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 225 Heading the Barrels
description: “Heading the Barrels” at Doc Ferguson’s orchard. L to R: George Yates, Ben Owens, Mr. Minnix, A. Bohon, Doc Ferguson, Will Hokles, Wiley Lavinder.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 228 Ration Stamps
description: Gas ration stamps from 1945.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1945
contributor: Lou Emma Richards
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 230 Mount Union COB
description: Mount Union Church of the Brethren on Bent Mountain. The original 1896 church building is seen. Rev. Oscar Fike (right) and his parents are on the front steps.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1941
contributor: Martha Brizendine
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 233 Brethren Baptism
description: Brethren baptism in a creek in Floyd County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1921
contributor: Copper Hill Church of the Brethren
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 234 Cave Spring Baptist
description: Cave Spring Baptist Church.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1903
contributor: Cave Spring Baptist Church
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 235 Cave Spring Baptist
description: Cave Spring Baptist Church
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Cave Spring Baptist Church
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 237 Cave Spring Baptist
description: Cave Spring Baptist Church
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1960s
contributor: Cave Spring Baptist Church
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 238 Reed's Store
description: Reed's Store at the intersection of Route 221 and Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Judy Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 239 Reed's Store
description: Reed's Store at the intersection of Route 221 and Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Judy Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 242 Lula Reed
description: Lula Cole Reed, mother of Marvin “Fats” Reed, at Reed’s Store.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Judy Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 243 Reed's Store
description: Two unidentified persons at Reed's Store.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Judy Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 245 Haran School
description: House across road from Reed's Store on Route 221. The house was formerly the Haran School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Judy Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 247 Starkey Speedway
description: Starkey Speedway
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 248 Fruit Growers Telephone Exchange
description: Fruit Growers Telephone Exchange (was also Luther Bell’s store) located on Landmark Circle in Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 252 Starkey Speedway
description: Aerial view of Starkey Speedway.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 253 Starkey Speedway
description: Stock car racing at Starkey Speedway.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 254 Starkey Speedway
description: Stock car racing at Starkey Speedway.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 002 Back Creek School
description: Back Creek School, back row L to R: Bernice Harmon, Charlie Blankenship, Lonzie Janney, Dempsey Grisso, Dean Dores; Second row, L to R: Buster Webster, Edison Likens, Isaac Sutphin, Grover Sink, Harry Cannaday, Grant Christley; Front row, L to R: Keith Kittinger, Homer Clemons, Roy Cannaday, Ernest Altice, Elmo Clemmons, Wally Marlow
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Isaac Sutphin
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 003 Back Creek School
description: School group at old Back Creek School on Landmark Circle in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 004 Back Creek School
description: School group at old Back Creek School on Landmark Circle in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 005 Back Creek School
description: School group at old Back Creek School on Landmark Circle in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 006 Back Creek School
description: School group at old Back Creek School on Landmark Circle in Southwest Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 007 Back Creek School
description: Sophomore Class at Back Creek School: L to R: Billy Agee, Jane Coon, Edmund Chamberlain, Douglas Grisso, Louis Grisso, Hazel Henderson, John Jones, Mildred Jones, Lotherine Lavinder, Sara Lee Poage, Evelyn Webster
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 008 Back Creek School
description: Back Creek High School, Junior Class, Front row, L to R: Nancy Poage, Pete Christley, Herbert Henderson, Jr., Norman Lavinder, Mary Bowling; Back row, L to R: Bertha Christley, Carl Wade, Bertha Bohon, Martha Jane Henry
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1936
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 009 Back Creek School
description: May Day at Back Creek School, L to R: Catherine Bowling, Frances Grubb, Frances Gill, Lotherine Lavinder (Queen), Josephine Grisso, Evelyn Webster; in the front is crown-bearer Nadine Henderson
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 010 Poages Mill
description: Mill wheel at Poage's Mill
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 011 Haran School
description: School – probably the old log school house first used for Haran School before larger facility was built.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 012 Back Creek School
description: Back Creek High School 4-H Club, L to R: Mildred Bohon, Jane Coon, Josephine Grisso, Geraldine Grubb, Hazel Henderson, Mildred Jones, Sue Lane, Nancy Poage, Sara Lee Poage, Emily Rierson, Cornelia Simpson, Evelyn Webster, Irma Wright
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1936
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 013 Haran School
description: Haran School, front row, L to R: Blanche Ferguson, Robert Ferguson, Billy Bohon, Geneva Poage, Francis Martin, Mae Agee, Mamie Agee, Mina Day, Gladys Bohon, Claude Puckett, Omer Puckett, Floyd Bohon; Second row, L to R: Lela Jenny, Nellie Ferguson, Clossie Webster, unidentified; Third row, L to R: Gertie Reynolds, Julie Reynolds, Mattie Bohon, Snow Jenny, Rosa Agee, unidentified, Deway Webster, Ivan Martin, Lamar Martin, Johnnie Grubb, Grace Pittard; Back row, L to R: Roosevelt Grubb, McKinley Grubb, Dewey Webster, Fonso Grubb, Crystal Ferguson
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1917
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 015 Roland Ferguson School
description: Roland Ferguson School, located on Twelve O’Clock Knob Road. The teacher was Mildred (Edd) Bell, sister-in-law of Tom and Luther Bell; #1 is Ocie Ferguson, #2 is Icie Ferguson, #3 is Jim Ferguson
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1894
contributor: Back Creek Civic League
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 016 Haran Baptist
description: Haran Baptist Church
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: March 1963
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 017 Back Creek School
description: Students at Back Creek School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 018 Haran Baptist
description: Haran Baptist Church
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1924
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 021 Kittinger Chapel
description: Ink sketch of Kittinger Chapel, artist unknown.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 255 Sally Lewis
description: Sally Lewis, resident of Poages Mill area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Kat Jacobs
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 256 Ben Lewis
description: Ben Lewis, resident of Haran area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Kay Jacobs
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 259 Woodrum Orchard
description: Scene at Woodrum Orchard.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1911
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 262 Elmore Martin
description: Charcoal drawing of Elmore Martin. Martin served with the 28th Virginia Infantry, CSA. He died in the war.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 263 Grisso Family
description: Grisso Family, L to R: Ellis Grisso, Mary Grisso, Susie (Harris) Grisso, Price Grisso (small child), John H. Grisso.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 264 Back Creek
description: Erecting telephone poles and wire in Back Creek area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 265 J.H. Grisso
description: Unidentified man examining remnants of splintered oak tree struck by lightning on J.H. Grisso farm, the strike of which killed J.H. Grisso
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1927
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 266 John and Susie Grisso
description: John Henry and Susie (Harris) Grisso.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 267 Back Creek Orchard
description: Aerial view of Back Creek Orchard Company at foot of Bent Mountain; owned by Woodrum family, R.S. Stearnes, Dr. E.W. Senter, Jack Kefauver and Clinton Craighead
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 268 Bent Mountain Elementary
description: Bent Mountain Elementary School
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 269 Back Creek Elementary
description: Back Creek Elementary School
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 270 Dr. Edward Tinsley
description: Dr. Edward Tinsley ready to start rounds on horseback. His house is in background. Tinsley practiced from 1890 to 1940 in the Bent Mountain area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 271 Cave Spring
description: Spring at Cave Spring.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 272 Reed Family
description: Enjoying a spin in a Metz car. L to R: Neva, Vera, Elba, Raymond, and Alton Reed.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1919
contributor: Lois Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 273 Griding Stone
description: Native American mortar and grinding stone found near Cave Spring, owned by M.A. Janney
creator: J.T. Molden
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Roanoke County
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 274 Luther Bell
description: Luther Bell, board of supervisors member representing Cave Spring.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Roanoke County
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 276 Cave Spring Fire Department
description: Cave Spring Volunteer Fire Department.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1971
contributor: Roanoke County
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 277 Book Mobile
description: Roanoke County Book Mobile in front of the Roanoke Count Public Library.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1966
contributor: Roanoke County
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 278 Grant Plaza
description: Grant Plaza at Cave Spring, located at 3901 Brambleton Avenue.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1970
contributor: Roanoke County
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 279 Ola and Hubert Harris
description: Ola Agee Harris and Hubert E. Harris lived in the Starkey area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 280 Sarah and Ballard Martin
description: Sarah and Ballard Martin in front of home. Home is presently located on Shingle Ridge Road, off of Cotton Hill Road. Grandson Damon Martin is in buggy.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Davis Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 281 Lockett Family
description: L to R: Alonzo Lockett, Callie Harris Lockett, Pattie Martin at home formerly located across from the old Starkey School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 282 Hubert Harris
description: Hubert Harris on Salem Avenue in Downtown Roanoke.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 283 Lockett-Harris Family
description: Callie Lockett (seated), L to R: Carol Harris, Alonzo Lockett, Hubert Harris, David Harris, Dorothy Harris
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1949
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 284 Callie Lockett
description: Callie Lockett (nee Harris). She did not cut her hair after age 16, as she thought it sinful to do so.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 285 Alonzo Lockett
description: Alonzo Lockett in “Dokkie” fez.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 286 Harris Home
description: Harris homeplace along Route 221. It was razed when highway was widened.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 2002
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 287 Central Baptist
description: Central Baptist Church, Vacation Bible School. Rev. Arnold Williams is in suit at far left.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1956
contributor: David Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 288 Fralins Produce
description: Fralin’s produce stand along Route 221 on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1980s
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 289 Reed Home
description: Home of Elbe and Essie Reed, located behind Reed’s Store.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Lois Overstreet
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 290 Bent Mountain High
description: 1936 Graduating Class of Bent Mountain High School; Standing, L to R: Raymond Carr, George Powell, Homer Reed; Seated, L to R: Elois King, Margaret Jamison
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1936
contributor: Glenn Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 291 Reeds Orchard
description: Reed’s Orchard operation at intersection of Poor Mountain Road and Tinsley Lane. The apple packing shed in photo was built in 1933.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1990
contributor: Glenn Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 292 Reeds Orchard
description: Aerial view of Reed’s Orchard, located at the intersection of Poor Mountain Road and Tinsley Lane. The house was built by the Woodrum Family, bought by Homer Reed in 1948 and closed as a commercial orchard in 1995.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1990
contributor: Glenn Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 293 Coles Egg Farm
description: Snow being plowed at Coles Egg Farm after a big snow on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1960
contributor: Glenn Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 294 Reeds Store
description: Elbe Reed in his store (right) on Route 221. The man at left is unidentified, but possibly a salesman. The store also served as Bent Mountain Post Office.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Glenn Reed
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 295 Bent Mountain Faculty
description: Faculty Group at Bent Mountain School; L to R: Mrs. Lloyd, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Brook Alderman, ?, Mr. Woods (principal), Ann McGee, Viva Bowles.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 14 May 1947
contributor: Sheri Poff
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 296 Bent Mountain School
description: Student group at Bent Mountain School, mostly unidentified, though it does contain Virginia Walters and Cassie Fralin
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: Sheri Poff
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 297 Bent Mountain School
description: Group at Bent Mountain School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1920s
contributor: Sheri Poff
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 298 John Austin
description: John Philip Austin at his home located across Route 221 from Mt. Union Church of the Brethren. Austin was the first person to have heart by-pass surgery at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1958
contributor: Sheri Poff
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 299 John and Virginia Austin
description: John and Virginia Walters Austin sitting on front porch of home with grandchildren.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: June 1961
contributor: Sheri Poff
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 301 Back Creek Elementary
description: Back Creek Elementary School; L to R: Marie Sloan, ?, ?, Gaynelle Simpson, ?
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 302 Poages Mill COB
description: Play at Poages Mill Church of the Brethren; L to R: Eddy Grisso, Curt Mowles, Norvell Hurt, Dick Agee, Daisy Long
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
contributor: Hazel Brown
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 303 Lorene Simpson and Polly Rierson
description: Lorene Simpson and Polly Rierson.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Hazel Brown
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 304 Stanley Home
description: House along Route 221, formerly across from Haran Baptist Church.The Stanley Family moved there in 1943. It was razed in late 1960s.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 305 Back Creek School
description: Back Creek School; L to R: Ethel Stump, Mauvieleen Stanley, Lorene Underwood, Martin Tinsley, Arlene Stanley.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 306 Mauvieleen Stanley
description: Mauvieleen Stanley on Route 221 in area of Haran Baptist Church.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 307 Stanley Family
description: Stanley Family in snow in the Haran area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 308 Altis Family
description: L to R: Clarence Altis, Mauvieleen Stanley, Ida Stanley, Gaye Stanley. The hill behind them is where the King’s Forest subdivision is today along Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 309 Diane Altis
description: Diane Altis on pick-up in Back Creak area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1952
contributor: Mauvieleen Altis
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 310 Look Out Lodge
description: Look Out Lodge postcard, Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Bob Stauffer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 311 Reno Restaurant
description: Reno Restaurant card, formerly located in Starkey area on Crystal Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Bob Stauffer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 312 Ferguson Family
description: Roland Ferguson and family in front of their house. The house is located at 5109 Twelve O’Clock Knob Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1905
contributor: Lorie Murray
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 313 40 Acres
description: “40 Acres” home postcard, Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Bob Stauffer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 314 Back Creek Faculty
description: Back Creek School faculty photo; L to R: Ella Clark Henry, Rufus Henry, Mary Turner.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Bob Stauffer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 315 Hartman Home
description: Preston Hartman home, Cave Spring.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Bob Stauffer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 316 Preston Hartman
description: Preston Hartman
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Bob Stauffer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 317 Henry McGuire
description: Henry P. McGuire of Cave Spring in J.L. Dishong fruit and vegetable wagon.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Bob Stauffer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 318 Cave Spring Baptist
description: Postcard of Cave Spring Baptist Church, showing parsonage and sanctuary.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 319 Ott and Lucy Poage
description: Ott and Lucy Poage at a dance at Back Creek Elementary School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Lynne Mowles
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 320 Poffs Garage
description: Poff’s Garage, Route 221, Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: January 2017
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 321 Ruby and Allen Stone
description: Ruby and Allen Stone, Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1964
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 322 Allen Stone
description: Allen Stone, Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1971
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 323 BMMTC Stock
description: Bent Mountain Mutual Telephone Company stock certificate.
creator: Bent Mountain Mutual Telephone Company
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1919
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 324 Bent Mountain School
description: “Old” Bent Mountain School.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 325 Christo Evangelical
description: A vacant Christo Evangelical Wesleyan Church in the Bottom Creek area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: January 2017
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 326 Bottom Creek COB
description: A vacant Bottom Creek Church of the Brethren.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 2017
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 327 Elbe Reed Store
description: Former Elbe Reed store and Bent Mountain Post Office on Route 221 in process of being razed.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: January 2017
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 328 Fralins Produce
description: Fralin's Produce along Route 221 on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1983
contributor: Alan Fralin
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 333 Ruby and Allen Stone
description: Ruby and Allen Stone at Union 76 Service Station along Route 221 on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1970s
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 334 Union 76
description: Stone’s Union 76 Service Station along Route 221 on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1978
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 335 Fletcher Wimmer
description: Fletcher Wimmer working on family farm. The Wimmers had large cabbage fields. Their farm bordered the Blue Ridge Parkway near the spur road to Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1960s
contributor: Glenna Wimmer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 336 Will Wimmer
description: Will Wimmer, a farmer at Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Glenna Wimmer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 337 Bent Mountain Hunting Club
description: Bent Mountain Hunting Club. The old club building was located on Callaway Road, off of Route 221 just past Blue Ridge Parkway overpass. Standing, L to R: Will Wimmer, C.F. Holt, Walter Overfelt, Dewey Holt, Doug Lancaster, ?, Woodrow Reed, Jake Hurst, ?, Lank Alderman All others unidentified.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Glenna Wimmer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 338 Bent Mountain Hunting Club
description: Unidentified musicians entertain inside clubhouse of Bent Mountain Hunting Club.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Glenna Wimmer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 339 Bent Mountain Hunting Club
description: Bent Mountain Hunting Club cabin on Calloway Road, later burned and was replaced with a cinderblock building. Will Wimmer on far right.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Glenna Wimmer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 340 Bent Mountain Hunting Club
description: Bent Mountain Hunting Club members ready for a hunt, location unknown.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950s
contributor: Glenna Wimmer
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 341 Apple Shed
description: Marshal Conner’s Bent Mountain Apple Shed produce stand along Route 221 on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1983
contributor: Gladys King
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 342 King Brothers Mill
description: King Brothers’ saw mill, formerly located in the Bottom Creek area. The mill was powered by steam engine. Logs were hauled to the site by oxen and horses.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Gladys King
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 343 Starkey Station
description: Starkey Combination Station.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1915
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 345 Grisso-Gates School
description: Grisso-Gates School building, located on property of 5321 S. Roselawn Road in Cave Spring.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 2017
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 346 Tinsley Lane
description: Haystacks along Tinsley Lane.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Ed Frost
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 348 Laurel Ranch
description: Vacation cabin at Laurel Ranch.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Ed Frost
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 349 Starkey School
description: Starkey School
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1980s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 350 Dr. Joseph Gale
description: Dr. Joseph A. Gale, a physician at Cave Spring in 1880s.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 351 Gale Office
description: Dr. Joseph Gale’s office in Cave Spring.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 352 Gale Home
description: Dr. Joseph Gale’s home in Cave Spring, later owned by Dr. White.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1890
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 353 Conner Store
description: Former store of Clem and Mae Conner along Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 2017
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 355 Omer and Francis Simpson
description: Omer Simpson (right) with son, Francis, cutting hay. Simpson's farm was located on Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 356 Simpson Family
description: L to R: Nelson Simpson, Omer C. Simpson, Omer C. Simpson Jr., Francis Simpson and unidentified man stacking hay in field. Simpson farm was located on Martins Creek Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 357 Bent Mountain Hunting Club
description: Bent Mountain Hunting Club. Back row, L to R: Ruben Holt, Dewey Holt, Will Wimmer; Front row, L to R: Ralph Metz, Howard Nichols, Raymond Wimmer
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1941
contributor: Sammy Holt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 359 Mormon Group
description: Mormon Church Group at Back Creek.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Genevieve Henderson
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 360 Conner Family
description: L to R: Marvin, Jesse, and Betty Conner picking apples in Thompson orchard on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1958
contributor: Cindy Windel
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 361 Finnell & Sons
description: B.G. Finnell & Sons store on Route 221, near foot of Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Laura Hall
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 362 Finnells Pool
description: Finnell’s Pool on Route 221, near foot of Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1960
contributor: Laura Hall
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 363 B.G. Finnell
description: B.G. Finnell, Sr. in front of his store.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940s
contributor: Laura Hall
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 365 Belleview Primitive Baptist
description: Belleview Primitive Baptist Church on Roselawn Road.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1940
contributor: Tim Hash
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 366 Riersons Store
description: Rierson's Store. This was the original store that stood where Back Creek Elementary School stands today on Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1924
contributor: Tim Hash
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 367 Riersons Store
description: Temporary Rierson's Store that was used after old store was razed and before new store was built.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Tim Hash
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 369 Fiddlers Convention
description: Flier promoting "Old Time Fiddler's Convention" at Back Creek School.
creator: Back Creek PTA
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1930s
contributor: Tim Hash
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 370 Music Festival
description: Flier promoting a music festival at the "new" Back Creek High School.
creator: Back Creek Social Service Club
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1937
contributor: Tim Hash
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 371 Riersons Store
description: Rierson’s Store on Route 221.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1970s
contributor: Tim Hash
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 372 Rierson Family
description: Maynard Rierson and family.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Tim Hash
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 373 Mr. and Mrs. Rierson
description: Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Rierson 50th Wedding Anniversary photo.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Tim Hash
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 374 Bent Mountain
description: Aerial view of Roanoke Look Out Lodge Gift Shop along Route 221 at the top of Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1960s
contributor: Frank Stone
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 375 Look Out Gift Shop
description: Roanoke Look Out Gift Shop on Route 221 at the top of Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1955
contributor: Frank Stone
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 376 George Burris
description: George M. Burris (right) on a hay wagon, Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 378 Cave Spring High
description: Cave Spring High School
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1957
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 379 Cave Spring High
description: Aerial view of Cave Spring High School and Cave Spring Baptist Church.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1960
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 380 Marvin Thompson and Guy Conner
description: Marvin Thompson (sitting on barrel) and Guy Conner in Woodrum Orchard.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1943
contributor: Cindy Windel
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 381 Poages Mill Baseball
description: Poages Mill baseball team, #1, R.C. Wertz, #2 O.L. Grisso, #3 John Wertz, #4 Bill Grisso, #5 Ott Wertz, #6 Walt Henry, #7 E.B. Martin, #8 John Bowles, #9 R.C. Henry
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1908
contributor: Walter Henry
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 138 Bessie and Essie Beckner
description: Bessie Beckner (left) and Essie Mae Beckner.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1935
contributor: Grandle Meador
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM 190 Holt's Store
description: Col. Holt’s store and house on Bent Mountain. Dr. Hurt’s car is parked in front.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Dana DeWitt
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image

BM382
description: Annie Vest and Helen Williams in front of Oswald L. Williams' Store on Bent Mountain.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Image
type: Still Image