PC 120.01 Mountain Park
description: "Mountain Park, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1907
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 120.1 Mountain Park
description: "Mountain Park and Casino, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1906
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 120.11 Mountain Park
description: "Mountain Park and Casino, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Souvenir Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 120.13 Mountain Park
description: "Mountain Park"
creator: Caldwell-Sites Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1906
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 120.14 Mountain Park
description: "Casino & fountain, Mill Mountain Park, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Salem Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1913
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 120.2 Mountain Park
description: "Scenes at Mountain Park by night, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 121.0 Municipal Building
description: "Nestling in a beautiful amphitheatre formed by the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east and the Alleghany Mountains on the west and at the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley lies Roanoke - The Magic City, key to Virginia's Valley Resort and Mountain Empire."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 121.01 Municipal Building
description: "Municipal Building, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 121.02 Municipal Building
description: "Municipal Building, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.0 General Offices
description: "General Offices, Headquarters of Norfolk & Western Railway, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Haynes Distributing Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.01 General Offices
description: "Norfolk & Western Railway Office Building, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.02 General Offices
description: "The general office buildings of the Norfolk & Western Railway in Roanoke, Virginia, headquarters of the company which employs over 6,000 persons in the city alone. Executive and supervisory departmental offices are located in these buildings, from which the activities of the 5,000 mile Norfolk & Western Railway system are directed."
creator: E.C. Kropp Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 112.03 General Offices
description: "N&W General Offices, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Caldwell-Sites Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 112.04 General Offices
description: "General Offices, Norfolk & Western Railway Co., Roanoke, VA."
creator: Gooch-Crosby Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1906
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 112.1 N&W Depot
description: "Depot, Norfolk & Western Offices and Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1908
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.2 Norfolk & Western Depot
description: "Norfolk & Western Depot, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Gooch-Crosby Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1907
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.22 Norfolk & Western Depot
description: "Norfolk & Western Railroad Depot, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Salem Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1913
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.3 Norfolk & Western Station
description: "Norfolk & Western Station, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.4 N&W Depot
description: "Norfolk & Western Station from Auditorium, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.5 N&W Passenger Station
description: "Roanoke, Virginia - The Star City of the South. This city is headquarters of America's most prosperous railroad, the Norfolk & Western, and located here are its shops and offices. Today, Roanoke is a beautiful city - replete with fine schools and colleges, excellent hotel accommodations, varied recreational advantages - convenient to a world of natural beauty, resorts and historic lore."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.51 N&W Passenger Station
description: "Norfolk & Western Train Station, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Haynes Distributing Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.6 N&W Fountain
description: "Fountain and park opposite Norfolk & Western Depot, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: S.H. Kress & Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.7 N&W Terminal
description: "Sunset view of Roanoke, Virginia with Norfolk & Western terminal in center."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.8 N&W Buildings
description: "Moonlight scene showing new viaduct, Roanoke Hotel and N&W office building, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.10 Engine No. 2171
description: "Engine No. 2171 just built by the Norfolk & Western Roanoke Shops poses for the camera."
creator: Mayer Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.11 Engine No. 603 Class J
description: "Norfolk & Western No. 603 Class J passenger engine at Roanoke Shops."
creator: Mayer Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.12 N&W Engines
description: "No. 600, No. 1203 and No. 2123, respresenting the main types of modern Norfolk & Western steam power."
creator: Mayer Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 112.13 N&W 611
description: "Norfolk & Western 611. In the classic rods down pose, Northern 611 and its excursion train wait in front of the Roanoke, Virginia station, October 1982. The Norfolk & Western and sponsor, Roanoke Chapter, NRHS, ran several excursions throughout Virginia in the fall of 1982 after restoration of the 4-8-4 earlier in the year."
creator: Audio-Visual Designs
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1982
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.14 Virginian Railway No. 135
description: "Roanoke Transportation Museum Virginian Railway's Number 135. Former Virginian Electric Number 135 is viewed in front of the old Virginian Depot in Roanoke, Virginia on March 29, 1983 prior to being placed on display in the Roanoke Transportation Museum. Built in 1956, this 3,300 horsepower A.C. Rectifier served the Virginian, the Norfolk & Western, the New Haven, the Penn-Central and Conrail before being retired in 1980."
creator: Alleghany Publishers
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1983
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.15 Locomotive No. 1218
description: "Norfolk & Western's Locomotive Number 1218. Norfolk & Western Railway's Class 'A' (2-6-6-4), Number 1218, was built by the Roanoke Shops in June of 1943. After many years of Main Line service with the N&W, Number 1218 served as a stationary boiler for the Union Carbide Corp. at South Charleston, West Virginia. Number 1218 was rebuilt and again is in use on the Main Line, powering excursion trains and is viewed here at the former Norfolk & Western passenger station in Roanoke on June 15, 1987."
creator: Mary Jane's Railroad Specialties
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1987
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.151 Locomotive No. 1218
description: "Norfolk & Western's Locomotive 1218. Norfolk & Western's Class 'A' (2-6-6-4), Number 1218 rolls past her birthplace, Norfolk & Western's East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, where she was built in June of 1943. After serving the Norfolk & Western, acting as a stationary boiler for Union Carbide Corp. at South Charleston, West Virginia, and being on display at the Roanoke Transportation Museum, Number 1218 is again in use as a power for excursion trains to the delight of rail fans, young and old alike."
creator: Mary Jane's Railroad Specialties
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 122.16 Virginian
description: "Virginian - Southern Railway Consolidation 722 and Shenandoah & Atlanta Pacific 750 blast through Montvale, Virginia on the Norfolk & Western Railway with the Roanoke Chapter, NRHS Special Virginian, August, 28 1971."
creator: Audio-Visual Designs
publisher: Roanoke Public Librares
date: 1971
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 123.0 City Post Office
description: "City Post Office, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1906
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 123.1 New Post Office
description: " New Post Office, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 123.2 Post Office
description: "US Post Office and Government Building, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 124.0 Main Library
description: "Roanoke Public Library, Roanoke, Virginia. Opened in 1952, the Roanoke Public Library building has a capacity of 185,000 volumes. It is air conditioned in summer, and heated in winter by means of an electric heat pump. Situated on the corner of Elmwood Park, it is within the downtown area."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 124.1 Main Library
description: "Opened in 1952, the Roanoke Public Library building has a capacity for 185,000 volumes. It is air conditioned in the summer and heated in the winter by means of an electric heat pump. Situated on the corner of Elmwood Park, it is within the downtown area."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 125.0 Roanoke Electric Railway
description: "Roanoke Electric Railway Offices and Waiting Room, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: S.H. Kress & Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1914
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 127.0 Roanoke High School
description: "High School, Roanoke Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 127.1 Commerce Street School
description: "Commerce Street Graded School, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: S.H. Kress Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 127.2 Jefferson High School
description: "Jefferson High School, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 127.21 Jefferson High School
description: "Jefferson High School, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: E.C. Kropp Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 127.3 Shenandoah Club
description: "Shenandoah Club, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: International Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1908
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.0 Patterson Avenue
description: "Patterson Avenue Parkway, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.1 Main Street
description: "Main Street, Wasena, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.2 Campbell Avenue
description: "Campbell Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1938
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.21 Campbell Avenue
description: "Campbell Avenue, looking west, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.22 Campbell Avenue
description: "Campbell Avenue, west from Jefferson Street, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.23 Campbell Avenue
description: "Campbell Avenue, looking west at night, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.24 Campbell Avenue
description: "Campbell Avenue, looking east, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: International Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1908
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.25 Campbell Avenue
description: "Night-time on Campbell Avenue, looking east, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.3 Jefferson Street
description: "Roanoke, Virginia - Nestling in a beautiful amphitheatre formed by the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east and the Alleghany Mountains on the west and at the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley lies Roanoke - Magic City of the South, key to Virginia's Valley Resort and Mountain Empire."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1936
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.31 Jefferson Street
description: "Jefferson Street, looking north, Roanoke, Virginia - Nestling in a beautiful amphitheatre formed by the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east and the Alleghany Mountains on the west and at the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley lies Roanoke - The Magic City, key to Virginia's Valley Resort and Mountain Empire."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.32 Jefferson Street
description: "Jefferson Street, looking north from Church Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.33 Jefferson Street
description: "Jefferson Street, looking south, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1916
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.34 Jefferson Street
description: "Jefferson Street looking south at night, Roanoke Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.35 Jefferson Street
description: "Intersection on Jefferson Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.4 Thirteenth Street
description: "Thirteenth Street, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.5 Franklin Road
description: "View on Franklin Road, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1909
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 128.6 Clarke Avenue
description: "Clarke Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia."
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1916
format: postcard
type: Still Image

Colonel 1949
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1949
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1950
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1951
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1951
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1952
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1952
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1953
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1953
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1954
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1954
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1955
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1956
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1956
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1957
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1957
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1958
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1958
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1959
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1959
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1960
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1960
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1961
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1961
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1962
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1962
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1963
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1963
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1964
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1964
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1965
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1965
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1966
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1966
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1967
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1967
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1968
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1968
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1971
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1971
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Colonel 1972
description: The Colonel is the annual for William Fleming High School.
creator: William Fleming High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1972
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Roanoke Times/World News Scrapbook Index
description: This index was compiled from a number of scrapbooks of Roanoke Times and Roanoke World News articles maintained by library staff over many years. Articles are arranged roughly under various subject headings and include the date and edition of the newspaper in which the articles were printed. Dates range from 1924-1968. Articles may be obtained from microfilm reels in the Virginia Room.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1924-1968
format: pdf
type: Text

PC 129.0 Terry Building
description: "Terry Building, Roanoke Virginia"
creator: Gooch-Crosby Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1906
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 130.0 Victory Stadium
description: "Victory Stadium, Roanoke, Virginia, as seen from atop Mill Mountain. With a seating capacity of 25,000, which can be increased to 29,000 with the use of bleachers, is where the Thanksgiving Day Classic Football Game is held each year between (VMI) Virginia Military Institute and (VPI) Virginia Polytechnical Institute. The municipal stadium also serves for many outstanding events each year, such as industrial exhibits, Harvest Festival, football games, etc. Also seen in the picture, the National Guard Armory, Marine and Navy Reserve Centers and the Virginian Railroad Yards."
creator: Haynes Distributing Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 130.1 Victory Stadium
description: "Military Classic of the South - More than 25,000 persons fill Victory Stadium at Roanoke, Virginia for the annual VMI-VPI football game on Thanksgiving Day. The Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets (seen in foreground) from Lexington, Virginia and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Corps from Balcksburg, Virginia add color and dash in the annual renewal of the intense football rivalry that has seen the two teams clash more than 50 times."
creator: Valley News Agency
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 130.2 Victory Stadium
description: "The Corps of Cadets of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in formation on the football field in a colorful pre-game appearance at the Thanksgiving Day classic between VMI and VPI in Victory Stadium in Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Mayer Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1962
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 131.0 US 11
description: "US Highway No. 11 near Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 131.1 US 220
description: "US Highway No. 220 South from Roanoke, Virginia to Rocky Mount and Martinsville."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.0 Views of Roanoke
description: "Views of Roanoke"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1906
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1 View of Roanoke
description: "View of Roanoke, Virginia"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.2 View of Roanoke Valley
description: "Roanoke Valley on the line of the Norfolk & Western Railway, Virginia."
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.3 Trolley
description: "Trolley car crossing stream near Roanoke, Virginia."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1911
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.4 Greetings from Roanoke
description: "Looking to the north on Jefferson Street, part of the business section can be seen with Elmwood Park shown in the foreground. Also known as the Star City of the South."
creator: Haynes Distributing Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.5 View of Roanoke
description: "Roanoke, Virginia is the third largest city in Virginia, situated in a natural bowl between the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains. Mill Mountain, a city park in the heart of the city rises 1,000 feet above the city, Hollins College is nestled at the foot of Tinker Mountain, seen in the right background."
creator: Roanoke Photo Finishing Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.6 Roanoke from Mill Mountain
description: "Roanoke, Virginia as seen from Mill Mountain. This superb view of Roanoke and surrounding country is taken from Mill Mountain, where the world's largest man-made star is located and gives Roanoke its name as the Star City."
creator: Mayer Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.61 Roanoke from Mill Mountain
description: "Bird's-eye view of Roanoke,Virginia from Mill Mountain."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.62 Roanoke from Mill Mountain
description: "Bird's-eye view from Mill Mountain of Roanoke, Virginia, Star City of the South."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.7 Downtown Roanoke
description: "Downtown Roanoke, Virginia looking north on Jefferson Street with the Main Branch of the Roanoke Public Library in the foreground."
creator: Mayer Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.8 South Roanoke
description: "South Roanoke"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.9 Virginia Heights
description: "Virginia Heights"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.91 Virginia Heights
description: "Virginia Heights Bridge and Roanoke River"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.10 Downtown Roanoke
description: "Night view of Roanoke, Virginia"
creator: Haynes Distributing Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1110 VA Hospital
description: "Main building, US Veterans Administration Hospital, near Salem, Roanoke."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1111 Andrew Lewis
description: "Andrew Lewis High School, Salem"
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1112 Roanoke County Courthouse
description: "Roanoke County Courthouse and confederate monument, Salem."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1113 GW Carver
description: "Carver School, Salem. Roanoke County consolidated high school for negroes."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1114 Lake Spring Park
description: "Lake Spring Park, Salem"
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postc ard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1115 Lutheran Orphanage
description: "Administration Building, Lutheran Orphanage of the South, Salem"
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1116 Longwood
description: "Longwood Salem Community Center, Salem"
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1117 Roanoke College
description: "Administration Building, Roanoke College, Salem"
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 132.1118 Twelve O'Clock Knob
description: "Twelve O'Clock Knob, Salem"
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 133.0 Virginia College
description: "Virginia College, Roanoke, Virginia"
creator: Caldwell-Sites Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1906
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 133.01 Virginia College
description: "Virginia College, Roanoke, Virginia"
creator: Caldwell-Sites Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1907
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 133.02 Virginia College
description: "Virginia College, Roanoke, Virginia"
creator: S.H. Kress & Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1912
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 133.03 Virginia College
description: "Virginia College (Young Ladies), Roanoke, Virginia"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC133.04 Virginia College
description: "The Virginia College, Roanoke,Virginia"
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 134.0 Woodrum Field
description: "Woodrum Field, Roanoke, Virginia. Located just outside the city limits of Roanoke, Virginia is the municipal terminal for three major airlines: Piedmont, Eastern and American - with a total of 50 flights daily. This ultra-modern airport serves as one of the best private flying fields in the state."
creator: Haynes Distributing Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 135.0 YMCA
description: "Central YMCA, Roanoke, Virginia"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.1 Andrew Lewis
description: "Andrew Lewis High School, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Woodward Studio
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1935
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.2 Salem Post Office
description: " Post Office, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.3 VA Hospital
description: " Veterans Administration Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia near Salem."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.31 VA Hospital
description: "Veterans Administration Hospital Roanoke-Salem, Virginia. In the foreground is the grandstand and patient recreational area. In the rear center is shown the general medical and surgical ward building and to the right, the administration building."
creator: Mayer Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.32 VA Hospital
description: "Main Building, US Veterans Administration Hospital, Salem, Virginia, near Roanoke."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.33 VA Hospital
description: "Recreation building, Veterans Administration Hospital, near Salem, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.34 VA Hospital
description: " Sunrise scene, US Veterans Administration Facility, showing Buildings 1 and 2. Roanoke, Virginia, near Salem."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.4 Downtown Salem
description: "Main Street, looking west. Salem, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.41 Downtown Salem
description: "Main Street at night looking west, Salem, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.5 Andrew Lewis Grave
description: "Grave of Gen. Andrew Lewis, East Hill Cemetery, Salem, Virginia. One of the early settlers in Virginia was General Andrew Lewis, pioneer hero of the Battle of Point Pleasant. In 1767, he was allotted a grant of land consisting of 625 acres and from this territory the town of Salem was later laid out."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown

PC 139.7 Roanoke Women's College
description: "Roanoke Women's College, Salem, Virginia."
creator: E.C. Kropp Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1913
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.8 Roanoke County Courthouse
description: "Roanoke County Courthouse, Salem, Virginia."
creator: E.C. Kropp Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.81 Roanoke County Courthouse
description: "Roanoke County Courthouse, Salem, Virginia. Roanoke County was established on March 230, 1838. The first courthouse was erected in 1841 (on site of the present courthouse). The present courthouse was built in 1909, added onto in 1949 and partially remodeled in 1961."
creator: W.A. Shaw, Jr.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.9 Lutheran Orphanage
description: "Lutheran Orphan Home, Salem Virginia. J.T. Crabtree, Supt."
creator: Souvenir Post Card Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1913
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.10 Lutheran Children's Home
description: "Lutheran Children's Home of the South, Salem, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.11 Roanoke College
description: "Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1914
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.112 Roanoke College
description: "Air view, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Artvue Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.113 Roanoke College
description: "Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia - President's Home - This Georgian townhouse, official home of the President of Roanoke College, is one of the most elegant residences in western Virginia. Founded in 1842, Roanoke is a liberal arts college for men and women."
creator: Mayer Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1971
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.114 Roanoke College
description: "The commons and dormitories. Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia near Roanoke."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.1151 Roanoke College
description: "Administration Building, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia near Roanoke"
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.116 Roanoke College
description: "Library, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia"
creator: W.A. Shaw, Jr.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.15 Langhorne Place
description: "Entrance to Langhorne Place, Salem, Virginia."
creator: Asheville Postcard Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.16 Camp Fort Lewis
description: "Tourist Camp Fort Lewis Courts. Steam heat, tile private baths, innerspring mattresses, closed garages. One of the best in the east, 8 miles west of Roanoke, Virginia. One-half mile west of Salem, Virginia. US Route No. 11. Open all year. Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Musser."
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.17 Browns
description: "Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Brown, Rev. G.L. Brown. Salem, Virginia October 20, 1908"
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1908
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 140.0 Lakeside
description: "Lakeside Amusement Park, Route No. 11, Salem, Virginia. Just one of many rides at the park, Lakeside's famous Sky-lift, taking people on a 9 minute, 1800 ft. panoramic trip high above the park."
creator: Roanoke Photo Finishing Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 140.1 Lakeside
description: "Concrete swimming lake, Lakeside", Roanoke, Virginia. Two million gallons fresh water changing constantly."
creator: Virginia Specialty Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 140.11 Lakeside
description: "Concrete swimming lake, Lakeside, Roanoke, Virginia. Two million gallons fresh water changing constantly."
creator: J.P. Bell Co.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18a Longwood
description: "Cooper Home, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18b Main Street
description: "Main Street, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18c Salem Streets
description: "Street scenes, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18d Academy Street School
description: "High School, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18e College Avenue
description: "College Avenue, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18f Roanoke College
description: "Group of buildings, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18g Fort Lewis
description: "Poff Home, Salem, Virginia" Better known as Fort Lewis Mansion.
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18h Roanoke College
description: "Administration Building, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18i Lutheran Orphanage
description: "Lutheran Orphanage, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18j Baptist Orphanage
description: "Baptist Orphanage, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18k McVitty Home
description: "McVitty Home, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18l Mount Regis
description: "Mount Regis Sanatorium, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18m Langhorne Home
description: "Langhorne Home, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

PC 139.18n Elizabeth College
description: "Elizabeth College, Salem, Virginia"
creator: Kiwanis Club, Salem
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: postcard
type: Still Image

Creasy1 1225 3rd Street
description: Home located at 1225 3rd Street SW.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 3 March 1981
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy2 Lakeview Motor Lodge
description: Lakeview Motor Lodge, formerly located at 6910 Williamson Road.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: March 1963
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy3 Lakeview Motor Lodge
description: The Manor House at Lakeview Motor Lodge, formerly located at 6910 Williamson Road.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: March 1963
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy4 Texas Tavern
description: A Roanoke landmark, Texas Tavern is located at 114 Church Avenue SW.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1976
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy5 N&W Yards
description: The Norfolk & Western yards.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy6 707 Building
description: The 707 Building, located at 707 S. Jefferson Street.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: December 1978
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy7 Stone Printing
description: Stone Printing Company, formerly located at 116 N. Jefferson Street.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: June 1985
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy8 Church Avenue
description: Looking east on Church Avenue at 2nd Street. The old YMCA building is seen on the left and Greene Memorial United Methodist on the right.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: March 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy9 Church and 5th
description: Home formerly located at 5th Street and Church Avenue.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1975
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy10 Main Library
description: Construction of the Main Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: March 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy11 Main Library
description: Construction of the Main Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy12 Main Library
description: Construction of the Main Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy13 VPI-VMI Game
description: VPI-VMI Thanksgiving Day game held at Victory Stadium. Once known as the "Military Classic of the South", the match-up was held annually in Roanoke from 1913-1971.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 24 November 1966
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy14 Roanoke Transportation Museum
description: Children ride in model train once part of the Virginia Museum of Transportation (then Roanoke Transportation Museum) when it was located in Wasena Park.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 26 May 1979
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy15 Roanoke Transportation Museum
description: Replica of the "Best Friend of Charleston" at the opening of the Virginia Museum of Transportation (the Roanoke Transportation Museum) in Wasena Park.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 26 May 1979
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy16 Roanoke Transportation Museum
description: Replica of the "Best Friend of Charleston" at the opening of the Virginia Museum of Transportation (then Roanoke Transportation Museum) in Wasena Park.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 26 May 1979
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy17 Centennial Parade
description: Crowds line Jefferson Street for the Roanoke Centennial Parade.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 15 May 1982
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy18 Centennial Parade
description: Replica 1892 Heironimus float in the Roanoke Centennial Parade.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 15 May 1982
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy19 Centennial Parade
description: Marines reenact the raising of the American Flag at Iwo Jima in the Roanoke Centennial Parade.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 15 May 1982
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy20 Centennial Parade
description: Roanoke Transportation Museum float in the Roanoke Centennial Parade.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 15 May 1982
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy21 Center Groundbreaking
description: The groundbreaking of Center in the Square. From left to right: Frank Clement, Mayor Noel C. Taylor, George Cartledge, E.K. Mattern and City Manager Bern Ewert.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: November 1981
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy22 Center Groundbreaking
description: E.K. Mattern, Mayor Noel C. Taylor and City Manager Bern Ewert at groundbreaking of Center in the Square.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: November 1981
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy23 Center Groundbreaking
description: E.K. Mattern, Mayor Noel C. Taylor and City Manager Bern Ewert at groundbreaking of Center in the Square.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: November 1981
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy24 City Market
description: Vendors on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 8 April 1950
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy25 City Market
description: Crumpacker Orchards on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: March 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy26 City Market
description: Vendors on the City Market
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy27 City Market
description: Vendors on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: October 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy28 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: May 1972
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy29 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: May 1972
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy30 City Market
description: Vendors on the City Market,.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: May 1975
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy31 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: May 1975
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy32 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: May 1975
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy33 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1975
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy34 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1975
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy35 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1976
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy36 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1976
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy38 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1976
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy39 City Market
description: An unidentified vendor prepares produce to sell on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1976
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy40 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1976
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy42 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1976
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy43 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1976
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy44 City Market
description: Customers shop at vendor stalls on the City Market.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: April 1982
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy45 City Market
description: Mountain Top Orchards sells produce on the City Market,
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: April 1982
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy46 Huff Farm
description: Once known as the Barrens, the home of Dr. Francis Sorrel and Letitia Gamble Watts, the property was sold to Peter Huff in 1900. The property, situated within the city limits, was eyed by developers as a prime location for commercial interests. The Huff Family sold the farm in 1981. Construction on Valley View Mall began in 1983 with the mall opening in 1985.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1979
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

Creasy47 Huff Farm
description: Once known as the Barrens, the home of Dr. Francis Sorrel and Letitia Gamble Watts, the property was sold to Peter Huff in 1900. The property, situated within the city limits, was eyed by developers as a prime location for commercial interests. The Huff Family sold the farm in 1981. Construction on Valley View Mall began in 1983 with the mall opening in 1985.
creator: John Will Creasy
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: August 1979
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photographic Slide
type: Still Image

A Guide to the Valley Beautiful Foundation Records Collection
description: This is a guide to the Valley Beautiful Foundation Records Collection. The Valley Beautiful Foundation was organized in 1981 in order to promote the beautification of the Roanoke Valley. It set about its goal by planting trees in the city, co-sponsoring conservation lectures, carrying out projects such as hanging flower baskets downtown, and distributing grants from the Virginia Department of Forestry to local towns and schools for Arbor Day celebrations. The records contain selections of internal records such as minutes, planning session notes, and financial information from the 1990s and 2000s. There are also many documents, articles, and photographs about Valley Beautiful’s events and grant-funded projects. Valley Beautiful disbanded in 2013.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
format: pdf
type: Text

A Guide to the Valley Baptist Association Women’s Auxiliary Collection
description: This is a guide to the Valley Baptist Association Women's Auxiliary Collection. The Valley Baptist Association Women’s Auxiliary Collection consists of materials related to the organization’s history, mission work, and programs. Included are materials such as meeting minutes, programs for various sponsored and associated events and conventions, a typewritten history of the organization, financial information, guides and agendas.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
format: pdf
type: Text

MP 4.421 Campbell Avenue
description: Looking east on Campbell Avenue from 1st Street during paving. People's Drugstore, Standard Drug, Krees & Co. and Lerner Shops were several of the businesses along this block.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1945
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

MP 4.422 Campbell Avenue
description: Looking east on busy Campbell Avenue from 1st Street. People's Drugstore, Standard Drug, Kress & Co. and Lerner Shops were several of the businesses along this block.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1955
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

MP 4.423 1st Street
description: Looking south on 1st Street from the 1st Street Bridge. The bridge connected Henry Street to Downtown Roanoke. The bridge was renamed in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2003.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1945
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

General 1949
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1949
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1959
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1959
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1956-1957
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1956-1957
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1957-1958
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1957-1958
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1964
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1964
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

The Acorn 1943
description: The Acorn was the annual for Jefferson High School.
creator: Jefferson High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1943
contributor: Grace Stossel
format: yearbook
type: Text

The Acorn 1944
description: The Acorn was the annual for Jefferson High School.
creator: Jefferson High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1944
contributor: Grace Stossel
format: yearbook
type: Text

The Acorn 1945
description: The Acorn was the annual for Jefferson High School.
creator: Jefferson High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1945
contributor: Grace Stossel
format: yearbook
type: Text

The Acorn 1946
description: The Acorn was the annual for Jefferson High School.
creator: Jefferson High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1946
contributor: Grace Stossel
format: yearbook
type: Text

General 1970
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1970
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text
identifier: General 1970

General 1953
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1953
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text
identifier: General 1953

Davis 2.27 Professional Arts Building
description: Constructed in 1929, the Professional Arts Building, formerly known as the Medical Arts Building, is located at 30 Franklin Road.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 2.28 Boxley Building
description: Still under construction in this photograph, the Boxley Building was built by W.W. Boxley, then mayor of Roanoke. The building is located at 416 S. Jefferson Street.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1922
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 2.163 Campbell Avenue
description: Looking east on Campbell Avenue near the Jefferson Street intersection. On the right is the First National Exchange Bank; visible on the left are Hanover Shoes, Virginia Dare Dresses and United Cigars.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1935
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 12.4 Commonwealth Building
description: Originally constructed as the United States Post Office and Federal Courthouse in 1932, the Commonwealth Building is located at 220 Church Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1935
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 13.14 Roanoke County Courthouse
description: The old Roanoke County Courthouse, located at 301 E. Main Street in Salem was completed in 1910. Offices moved to a new building in 1985. The building is now owned by Roanoke College.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 14.12 Burrell Memorial Hospital
description: Roanoke's first African-American hospital, Burrell Memorial, was founded in 1915 in a small cottage on Henry Street. It soon outgrew the Henry Street location and moved into the former Alleghany Institute, a school for boys located at 611 McDowell Avenue, in 1921. By the early 1950s, Burrell Memorial had outgrown this building and a new hospital was constructed in 1955 on the same site.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 14.22 Shenandoah Hospital
description: Shenandoah Hospital, formerly located at 712 Campbell Avenue. Built in 1912, the 65-bed hospital closed in 1974. The building was razed in 1976.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 19.01 Victory Stadium
description: Victory Stadium opened in 1942. It would host many events in its 6 decade existence, including the annual Thanksgiving Day Harvest Bowl football game between Virginia Tech and Virginia Military Institute. The stadium was razed in 2006.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1942
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 19.141 YWCA
description: The Young Women's Christian Association formed a Roanoke chapter in 1914. This building was built around 1930 at the 605 1st Street SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1932
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 22.22 Greene Memorial UMC
description: Greene Memorial United Methodist Church, located at 402 2nd Street SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1945
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 24.02 St. Johns Episcopal
description: St. John's Episcopal Church, located on the corner of Jefferson Street and Elm Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 25.313 Our Lady of Nazareth
description: Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church. Formerly located at 820 Campbell Avenue, this structure was the first church, completed in 1926. It was used by the church until 1978 when the current structure was completed on Electric Road. The structure in this photo is now used by Roanoke Area Ministries.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 43.214 N&W General Offices
description: The former general office building of Norfolk and Western, located at 108 N. Jefferson Street, now houses the Roanoke Higher Education Center.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1935
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 43.301 First National Exchange Bank
description: The First National Exchange Bank building was built in 1912. Located at 204 Jefferson Street, it has been in continuous operation as a bank for over a century.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 45.237 Sunlight Bakery
description: The Roanoke Sunlight Bakery was located at 501 Salem Avenue. The building was also used by Kroger Bakery. It is now used as a warehouse.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 47.312 Roanoke City Mills
description: Roanoke City Mills, formerly located at 1750 Jefferson Street. The mill was raised in 2009.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 61.01 N&W Passenger Station
description: The Norfolk & Western Passenger Station was built in 1907. It is now home to the O. Winston Link Museum and History Museum of Western Virginia.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Davis 66.301 Memorial Bridge
description: Crossing into Raleigh Court, the Memorial Bridge was dedicated on 30 August 1926. It was named to honor World War I veterans.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Courtesy of Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

RC1 Memorial Bridge
description: Memorial Bridge under construction. Virginia Avenue bridge visible on left.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC2 Virginia Heights Baptist
description: Chapel and first sanctuary of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC3 Virginia Heights Baptist
description: Sanctuary of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC4 Virginia Heights Elementary
description: Virginia Heights Elementary School is seen in the background. In the foreground is the foundation being laid for Virginia Heights Baptist Church.
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC5 VHBC Sunday School
description: Parishioners in front of chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC6 VHBC Chapel
description: Chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1919
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC7 VHBC Parishioners
description: Parishioners in front of chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC8 Roanoke Avenue
description: A view of Roanoke Avenue in Norwich.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC9 Russell Avenue
description: A view of Russell Avenue in Norwich.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC10 Bridge Street
description: A view of Bridge Street in Norwich.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC11 Bridge Street
description: Buildings along Bridge Street in Norwich.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC12 Row Houses
description: Row houses were constructed in Norwich to house the laborers who worked in the various industries in the area.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC13 Bridge Street
description: Looking north on Bridge Street at the old truss bridge crossing the Roanoke River.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC14 Norwich
description: Looking south toward Norwich at Bridge Street.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC15 Virginia Heights
description: Aerial view of Virginia Heights. Evergreen Cemetery is visible in the foreground; Memorial Bridge is visible in the lower right.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC16 Memorial Bridge
description: Aerial view of Memorial Bridge.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC17 Mick-or-Mack
description: Construction of Mick-or-Mack Grocery, located at 1312 Winborne Avenue.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC18 Garlands Drugstore
description: Garland's Drugstore under construction. Garland's opened in 1953.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1952
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC19 Grandin and Memorial
description: Aerial view of the intersection of Grandin Road and Memorial Avenue.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1961
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC20 Shirley and Greenwood
description: Looking north on Greenwood Road from the intersection with Shirley Avenue.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC21 Grandin Road Pharmacy
description: Grandin Road Pharmacy. Located at 1314 Grandin Road, the building is now how to Gracie's Place Pizzeria and Local Roots Restaurant.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC22 Virginia Avenue Bridge
description: The Virginia Avenue Bridge or Woodrum Bridge was the predecessor to Memorial Bridge.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1915
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC23 Memorial Bridge
description: A crowd gathers for the dedication of Memorial Bridge on 30 August 1926, despite having been open to traffic since 6 May 1926.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 30 August 1926
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC24 Memorial Bridge
description: A crowd gathers for the dedication of Memorial Bridge on 30 August 1926, despite having been open to traffic since 6 May 1926.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 30 August 1926
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC25 Streetcar 47
description: Streetcar #47 on Grandin Road. This was the last streetcar to run in Roanoke.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1942
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC26 Woodrow Wilson Middle
description: A newly completed Woodrow Wilson Middle School, located at 1813 Carter Road.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1927
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC27 Fishburn Park Elementary
description: Fishburn Park Elementary School, located at 3057 Colonial Avenue.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1968
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC28 Raleigh Court Elementary
description: Raleigh Court Elementary School, located at 2202 Grandin Road, opened in 1960 and served students through the end of the 2009 school year.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1962
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC29 Patrick Henry High
description: The old campus-style Patrick Henry High School was dedicated on 17 December 1960. It was replaced with a conventional school building in 2008.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1962
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC30 Woodrow Wilson Middle
description: The gymnasium addition at Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC31 Virginia Heights Elementary
description: A newly constructed Virginia Heights Elementary School (right) stands next to the old Virginia Heights Elementary.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1922
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC32 Grandin Court Elementary
description: Grandin Court Elementary School, located at 2815 Spessard Avenue.
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC33 Wasena Elementary
description: Wasena Elementary School, located at 1125 Sherwood Avenue.
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC34 Patrick Henry High
description: The old campus-style Patrick Henry High School was dedicated on 17 December 1960. It was replaced with a conventional school building in 2008.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1962
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC35 Harris Hardwood
description: Harris Hardwood Company office, formerly located just off of Ashlawn Street.
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC36 Norwich Bridge
description: Norwich Bridge
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC37 Raleigh Court Library
description: Raleigh Court Branch Library, located at 2112 Grandin Road.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1968
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC38 Memorial Bridge
description: A view of Memorial Bridge
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: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC39 Lakewood Pond
description: Pond in Lakewood Park.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC40 Lakewood Pond
description: Pond in Lakewood Park.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC41 Virginia Heights Lutheran
description: Children in front of Virginia Heights Lutheran Church. The church was the predecessor of Christ Lutheran Church. This chapel was located at what is now 1320 Grandin Road.. Built in 1917, the chapel was in use by the congregation until 1948.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC42 Children on Grandin
description: Unidentified children stand outside of Brice's Drugstore on Grandin Road.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC43 Garlands Drugstore
description: An interior view of Garland's Drugstore at its original Grandin Road location.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1943
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC44 Garlands Drugstore
description: Garland's Drugstore, formerly located at 1327 Grandin Road.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1954
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC45 Transportation Museum
description: Visitors at the Roanoke Transportation Museum formerly located in Wasena Park. The museum opened in 1963.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1965
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC46 Transportation Museum
description: N&W Class J 611 and N&W #6 on exhibit at the Roanoke Transportation Museum in Wasena Park.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1970
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC47 Transportation Museum
description: Some of the exhibits at the Roanoke Transportation Museum in Wasena Park.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1970
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

RC48 Transportation Museum
description: The Transportation Museum in Wasena Park submerged in flood waters from the flood of 1985.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 5 November 1985
contributor: Nelson Harris
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

Oral History Interview with Michelle Bennett
description: Oral History Interview with Michelle Bennett Interviewer: Sarah Sinoski, Brandon Croci Interviewee: Michelle Bennett Date: 27 February 2017 Location: Fintel Library, Roanoke College Total Duration: 1:21:14 Transcription prepared by: unknown
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 27 February 2017
contributor: Michelle Bennett, Sarah Sinoski, Brandon Croci
format: mp3
type: Sound

Oral History Interview with Linny Caldwell
description: Oral History Interview with Linny Caldwell Interviewer: Megan O'Neill, Brian Fersini Interviewee: Linny Caldwell Date: 23 February 2017 Location: Fintel Library, Roanoke College Total Duration: 66:47 Transcription prepared by: Bridget Reardon, Hannah Listopad
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 23 February 2017
contributor: Linny Calwell, Megan O'Neill, Brian Fersini, Bridget Reardon, Hannah Listopad
format: mp3
type: Sound

Oral History Interview with Garland Gravely
description: Oral History Interview with Garland Gravely Interviewer: Madison Pinckes, Erik Weed Interviewee: Garland Gravely Date: 19 February 2017 Location: Home of Garland Gravely Total Duration: 50:15 Transcription prepared by: Dacotah McGaffic, J.T. Shrader
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 19 February 2017
contributor: Garland Gravely, Madison Pinckes, Erik Weed, Dacotah McGaffic, J.T. Shrader
format: mp3
type: Sound

Oral History Interview with Robin Jordan
description: Oral History Interview with Robin Jordan Interviewer: Nicholas Dillon Interviewee: Robin Jordan Date: 22 February 2017 Location: Fintel Library, Roanoke College Total Duration: 1:06:29 Transcription prepared by: Yvonne Gravely, Hannah Kolcz, Nick Dillon
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 22 February 2017
contributor: Robin Jordan, Nicholas Dillon, Yvonne Gravely, Hannah Kolcz
format: mp3
type: Sound

Oral History Interview with Martha
description: Oral History Interview with Martha Interviewer: Avery Kirkendall, Marcus Stewart Interviewee: Martha Date: 22 February 2017 Location: Fintel Library, Roanoke College Total Duration: 1:03:56 Transcription prepared by: Alexa Doiron, Lorien Santos, Emma Fenton, Marcus Stewart
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 22 February 2017
contributor: Martha, Avery Kirkendall, Marcus Stewart, Alexa Doiron, Lorien Santos, Emma Fenton
format: mp3
type: Sound

Oral History Interview with Don Muse
description: Oral History Interview with Don Muse Interviewer: Sasha Roberts, Brooke Thacker, Victoria Preston Interviewee: Don Muse Date: 19 February 2017 Location: Home of Don Muse Total Duration: 1:01:18 Transcription prepared by: Victoria Preston, Brooke Thacker, Sasha Roberts
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 19 February 2017
contributor: Don Muse, Sasha Roberts, Brooke Thacker, Victoria Preston
format: mp3
type: Sound

Oral History Interview with Rissa
description: Oral History Interview with Rissa Interviewer: Omari Chancellor, Emily Brun Interviewee: Rissa Date: 18 February 2017 Location: Roanoke Diversity Center Total Duration: 56:22 Transciption prepared by: Ta’Tyana Buster, Jac Frost
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 18 February 2017
contributor: Rissa, Omari Chancellor, Emily Brun, Ta’Tyana Buster, Jac Frost
format: mp3
type: Sound

Brigadier 1964
subject: James Breckinridge Junior High School
description: Brigadier is the annual of James Breckinridge Junior High School
creator: James Breckinridge Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1964
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Index to Raymond Barnes News Articles
description: This is an index of articles written by Raymond Barnes for the Roanoke World News. Barnes' feature articles, entitled "Echoes of Roanoke", ran from 1958-1969 and covered an array of historical topics related to the Roanoke Valley.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Articles were published from 1958-1969, but content ranges from the Colonial era through the 20th Century.
format: pdf
type: Text

A Guide to the Urban Renewal Collection of Mary Bishop
description: This collection is housed in three record storage boxes. Content consists of all of Mary Bishop’s research for “Street by Street, Block by Block: How Urban Renewal Uprooted Black Roanoke”. The collection is arranged into four series: • Series I: Neighborhoods – consists of any notes, correspondence, news clippings, interviews with residents, neighborhood plans, maps, memoranda and news releases and historical information. • Series II: Related Research – consists of information on other urban renewal initiatives across the country, including publications, news clippings, contacts, city demographics, • Series III: Organizations – consists of information related to the organizations involved, either as advocates for or opponents of urban renewal, including general information on the organizations, financial statements, notes from meetings, correspondence, interview notes and records. • Series IV: Projects – information regarding Bishop’s urban renewal projects, including speaking engagements, editorials, proofs of story for “Street by Street”, reader’s response to “Street by Street”, photographs used in the story and information related to Bishop’s “Invisible Inner City”.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
relation: "Street by Street, Block by Block: How Urban Renewal Uprooted Black Roanoke" and "Racial Remapping: How City Leaders Bulldozed Black Neighborhoods" by Mary Bishop and "The Invisible Inner City" (in 5 parts) by Mary Bishop and S.D. Harrington.
format: pdf
type: Text

MP 24.5 Mt. Pleasant School
description: Unidentified students in front of Mt. Pleasant School in Roanoke County.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
contributor: Stranna Leslie Arthur
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW1 Loebl, Josef
description: Josef Loebl stands next to a Vorclone drying tumbler in Loebl Dye Works, formerly located at 350 Salem Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW2 Loebl Dye Works
description: Left to Right: Josef Loebl, Robert Loebl, Julia Loebl, _____, and Roy Hargraves in front of Loebl Dye Works, formerly on Salem Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW3 Dyeing Vats
description: Left to right: Roy Hargraves, Josef Loebl and Robert Loebl in a dyeing room of Loebl Dye Works, formerly located on Salem Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW4 Cleaning and Alterations
description: In addition to dyeing, Loebl also provided dry cleaning and alteration services. Photo is labeled with the following names, though their order as they appear is unclear: Minnie Duncan, Gertrude Gentry, Mrs. Flippen, Stella Taylor, and Miss Sandberg
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW5 Loebl, Josef
description: Hungarian born, Josef Loebl grew up in Austia. He set up his dyeing and cleaning shop on Salem Avenue in the 1920s.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW6 Loebl Fleet
description: A fleet of four Loebl Dye Works dry cleaning trucks parked in front of Loebl Dye Works on Salem Avenue.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW7 Loebl Fleet
description: Loebl Dye Works dry cleaning trucks parked in front of Loebl Dye Works on Salem Avenue.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW8 Customer Counter
description: Robert Loebl, Hattie Mae Beck and Iva M. Spangler in the pick-up and drop-off area of Loebl Dye Works.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW9 Loebl Interior
description: Josef Loebl (center) and two unidentified men in "storefront" of Loebl Dye Works
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW10 Staging Area
description: William Staples, Iva Staples and an unknown woman prepare garments for cleaning and alterations at Loebl Dye Works.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1931
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW11 Cleaning Area
description: Unidentified Loebl employees in the cleaning area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW12 Dyeing Area
description: Unidentified Loebl employees in the dyeing area.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW13 Cleaning Area
description: Robert Loebl (left) inspects the work of unidentified employees on the Hoffman Pressing Machine.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW14 Cleaning Area
description: Robert Loebl (left) and two unidentfied men in the next to the cleaning tumblers.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW15 Loebl Dye Works
description: As seen here, Loebl Dye Works once filled a row of buildings on Salem Avenue.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1956
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW16 Package
description: This package illustrates just how well known Loebl Dye Works was, not just locally, but globally. This was sent from a dry cleaner in New Zealand for dye work. Among other clients of Loebl were the White House, the Greenbrier, New York designers and Burlington Mills.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1931
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

LDW17 Loebl Dye Works
description: After the explosion of synthetic fabrics in the 1970s, Loebl Dye Works went out of business in 1981. The building was razed in 2001. The buildings at left in this photograph were also once used by the business and still stand today.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1998
contributor: Tina Loebl and Mary Bishop
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

A Guide to the County of Roanoke Circuit Court Annexation Records Collection
description: This is a guide to the County of Roanoke Circuit Court Annexation Records Collection, This record collection consists of 2 record storage boxes containing transcripts of court proceedings for the 1974 Roanoke Valley consolidated annexation case. The proceedings for this case began on 16 September 1974 and adjourned on 17 October 1974. Proceedings reconvened on 17 March 1975 with final arguments on 19 March 1975. The Final hearing and case decision was held on 10 May 1975. Records are a complete transcription of the proceedings, excluding the proceedings of 24 September 1974 (Volume XII, pages 1298-1440), which were missing at the time of donation. Also included is a document containing the City of Roanoke Exhibits presented during the proceedings and the Order of Annexation.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1974-1975
format: pdf
type: Text

Oral History Interview with Nancy Kelly
description: Oral History Interview with Nancy Kelly Interviewer: Julia Greider Interviewee: Nancy Kelly Date: 17 January 2017 Location: Fintel Library, Roanoke College Total Duration: 1:38:45 Transciption prepared by: Malinda Britt and Erin Hannon
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 17 January 2017
contributor: Nancy Kelly, Julia Greider, Malinda Britt, Erin Hannon
format: mp3
type: Sound

Oral History Interview with Kathryn L. Beranich
description: Oral History Interview with Kathryn L. Beranich Interviewer: Julia Greider Interviewee: Kathryn L. Beranich Date: 17 January 2017 Location: Fintel Library, Roanoke College Duration: 1:37:03 Transcription prepared by: Kerri Taylor
creator: Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 17 January 2017
contributor: Kathryn L. Beranich, Julia Greider, Kerri Taylor
format: mp3
type: Sound

E. Marvin Raney Collection Index
description: This index includes surnames found in the E. Marvin Raney Collection. The majority of Raney's research focuses on the families of Bedford and Franklin Counties, though surnames from other counties are represented. Raney worked extensively with Mae Moore, a local, well-known genealogist. This collection consists of 106 bound volumes.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
format: pdf
type: Text

The Craghead Family of Western Virginia
description: This work has been compiled in an attempt to trace the Craghead (Craighead) Family members who lived predominately in Franklin and Montgomery Counties, Virginia. Includes an index.
creator: Paul D. Craghead
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: No known restrictions.
format: pdf
type: Text

The Conner Family of Floyd County, Virginia
description: Genealogical research compiled on the Conner Family of Floyd County, Virginia.
creator: Paul D. Craghead
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: No known restrictions.
format: pdf
type: Text

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