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Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Roanoke Valley Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the History Museum & Historical Society of Western Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439671915
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Roanoke Valley in the 1940s written by Nelson Harris and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Roanoke Valley during the 1940s has largely been unexplored until now. This significant decade bore witness to the birth of the local civil rights movement, the impact of World War II and the postwar boom in public projects and private development. The J-Class locomotives, Carver School, Woodrum Field, Victory Stadium, Carvins Cove, the Roanoke Star, the end of streetcars, and the advent of drive-in theaters all marked the decade. Crowds thronged to see the biggest names in radio, film and music at the American Legion Auditorium, the Academy of Music and the Roanoke Theatre, while Major League baseball and professional football brought exhibition games to Maher Field and Victory Stadium. Local historian Nelson Harris provides a detailed account of this dynamic decade along with 300 archival photographs.
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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Roanoke Valley Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439641536
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Roanoke Valley written by Nelson Harris and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in the shadows of the Blue Ridge, the Roanoke Valley has developed as the capital region for western Virginia. After a century of growth fueled by transportation, education, and healthcare, the region has undergone significant visible change. While some of the valleys landmarks remain, many have been replaced or dramatically altered.
Author : Charles Alvis Bodie
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Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book Roanoke and New River Valleys, Virginia, Manuscripts written by Charles Alvis Bodie and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virginia's story is not complete until the accounts of the people west of the Blue Ridge are given their due. As more scholars are attraced to the region, the publication of this manuscript guide to five counties will offer them a source for documentary materials. The contiguous bloc of counties are Botetourt, Roanoke, Craig, Montgomery, and Floyd, all part of an area called Southwest Virginia, within the watersheds of the James, Roanoke and New rivers ... -- Introd.
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Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rand Dotson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572336439
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)
Download or read book Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912 written by Rand Dotson and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of a city that for a brief period was widely hailed as a regional model for industrialization as well as the ultimate success symbol for the rehabilitation of the former Confederacy. In a region where modernization seemed to move at a glacial pace, those looking for signs of what they were triumphantly calling the "New South" pointed to Roanoke. No southern city grew faster than Roanoke did during the 1880s. A hardscrabble Appalachian tobacco depot originally known by the uninspiring name of Big Lick, it became a veritable boomtown by the end of the decade as a steady stream of investment and skilled manpower flowed in from north of the Mason-Dixon line. The first scholarly treatment of Roanoke's early history, the book explains how native businessmen convinced a northern investment company to make their small town a major railroad hub. It then describes how that venture initially paid off, as the influx of thousands of people from the North and the surrounding Virginia countryside helped make Roanoke - presumptuously christened the "Magic City" by New South proponents - the state's third-largest city by the turn of the century. Rand Dotson recounts what life was like for Roanoke's wealthy elites, working poor, and African American inhabitants. He also explores the social conflicts that ultimately erupted as a result of well-intended 3reforms4 initiated by city leaders. Dotson illustrates how residents mediated the catastrophic Depression of 1893 and that year's infamous Roanoke Riot, which exposed the faȧde masking the city's racial tensions, inadequate physical infrastructure, and provincial mentality of the local populace. Dotson then details the subsequent attempts of business boosters and progressive reformers to attract the additional investments needed to put their city back on track. Ultimately, Dotson explains, Roanoke's early struggles stemmed from its business leaders' unwavering belief that economic development would serve as the panacea for all of the town's problems.
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Total Pages : 253 pages
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Download or read book Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Stewart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813134277
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Blood in the Hills written by Bruce Stewart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the regionÕs residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued to permeate perceptions of the area and news of the conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys, as well as the bloodshed associated with the coal labor strikes, cemented AppalachiaÕs violent reputation. Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia provides an in-depth historical analysis of hostility in the region from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Editor Bruce E. Stewart discusses aspects of the Appalachian violence culture, examining skirmishes with the native population, conflicts resulting from the regionÕs rapid modernization, and violence as a function of social control. The contributors also address geographical isolation and ethnicity, kinship, gender, class, and race with the purpose of shedding light on an often-stereotyped regional past. Blood in the Hills does not attempt to apologize for the region but uses detailed research and analysis to explain it, delving into the social and political factors that have defined Appalachia throughout its violent history.
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781467155687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (556 download)
Download or read book The Roanoke Valley in the 1950s written by Nelson Harris and published by History Press. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drag racing at Starkey, the debut of television, mass polio vaccinations, college football games at Victory Stadium, Roanoke's Diamond Jubilee, Salem's Sesquicentennial, and Vinton's Dogwood Festival American Viscose closed, the N&W Railway switched to diesel and the General Electric plant opened. The Roanoke Valley welcomed the Children's Zoo on Mill Mountain and the Miss Virginia Pageant to Hotel Roanoke. From a new terminal at Woodrum Field to the erection of Cave Spring High School, municipal projects reflected the economic boom times. Sears Town, Miller & Rhoads, the viaduct, and a new main library altered downtown Roanoke. WDBJ and WSLS television stations went on the air, premiering local programs such as Saturday Session, Top O' the Mornin', and Uncle Looney. The nation's top entertainers performed at the American Theatre, Lakeside, and the American Legion Auditorium. The valley's arts scene produced the Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, and Showtimers. Minor league baseball teams played to large crowds in the stands at Maher Field, Municipal Field and Springwood Park. Black leaders campaigned for equal pay, desegregation, and neighborhood equity. By searching every edition of the Roanoke Times and the Roanoke Tribune from January 1950 through December 1959, local historian Nelson Harris documents the decade's local events in sports, business, crime, arts, entertainment, religion, civil rights, politics, individual achievements, and healthcare.
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Hidden History
ISBN 13 : 9781609499938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Roanoke written by Nelson Harris and published by Hidden History. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of little known historical stories in Roanoke, VA"--
Author : Betty B. Low
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Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book Index of A History of Roanoke by Raymond P. Barnes written by Betty B. Low and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George S. Jack
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Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book History of Roanoke County written by George S. Jack and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Periodical Source Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donlan Piedmont, Nelson Harris, Lisa Fenderson & Anne Piedmont, Authorized by the Virginia Tech Real Estate Foundation Inc.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467144835
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Hotel Roanoke: The Grand Old Lady on the Hill written by Donlan Piedmont, Nelson Harris, Lisa Fenderson & Anne Piedmont, Authorized by the Virginia Tech Real Estate Foundation Inc. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes recipe for the hotel's pea soup and spoonbread.
Author : Raymond P. Barnes
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Total Pages : 959 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A History of Roanoke written by Raymond P. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
