Journal of the Roanoke Valley Historical Society
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Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Roanoke River Valley (Va. and N.C.) |
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Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Roanoke River Valley (Va. and N.C.) |
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Author | : Nelson Harris |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2021-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439671915 |
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 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Roanoke River Valley (Va. and N.C.) |
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Author | : Nelson Harris |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2011-01-03 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439641536 |
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 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Manuscripts, American |
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"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.
Author | : Rand Dotson |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1572336439 |
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.
Author | : Bruce Stewart |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813134277 |
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.