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Roanoke City Historical Markers

Map of Virginia State Historical Marker Locations in the City of Roanoke
 

Roanoke City Historical Markers

Roanoke Historical Marker

Jefferson Street SE, Roanoke, VA, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 37° 16' 3.19764", -79° 56' 26.36232"

(Obverse:)The first village here, at Pate's Mill and Tavern on Evans' Mill Creek, was called Big Lick for nearby salt marshes. In 1839 it was laid off as the town of Gainesborough. After the coming of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (later N.&W.) in 1852, another village sprang up about the old Stover House that was also named Big Lick. Gainesborough became known as Old Lick. (Reverse:) In June, 1864, General Hunter passed here retreating from Lynchburg. In 1874 Big Lick was incorporated. In 1881, with the junction of the new Shenandoah Valley Railroad with the N.&W., rapid growth began. In 1882 the name was changed to Roanoke; in 1884 it was incorporated as a city. In 1909 the Virginian Railroad operated its first train. In recent years Roanoke became the third city of Virginia.
Jefferson Street SE
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Roanoke Churches
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
The members of Mount Moriah Baptist Church belong to one of the region's earliest African American congregations, originating in a Sunday school for s... [click for more]

Old Lutheran Church
Tradition has it that the church near by was built where Moravian and Lutheran missionaries preached soon after the Revolution. Here, in 1796, Luthera... [click for more]

Roanoke General Interest
A Colonial Ford
The Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the backcountry of the Carolinas crossed the Roanoke River here at Tosh's Ford, named for Thomas Tosh, in th... [click for more]

Buzzard Rock Native American Settlement
The archaeological sites on the extensive floodplain nearby represent at least ten thousand years of periodic use by Native Americans. The artifacts a... [click for more]

Dr. William Fleming
Born in Scotland in 1728, William Fleming came to Virginia in 1751, and practiced medicine in Staunton before moving with his wife, Nancy Christian Fl... [click for more]

Hotel Roanoke (2)
The Hotel Roanoke was built in 1892 by the Norfolk and Western Railroad. Over the next century, despite fire and depression, it became the city's soci... [click for more]

Hotel Roanoke
The Hotel Roanoke was built in 1892 by the Norfolk and Western Railroad. Over the next century, despite fire and depression, it became the city's soci... [click for more]

Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951)
Oscar Micheaux, renowned leading creator of African American “race films” between 1919 and 1948, produced up to six full-length films in R... [click for more]

Roanoke City Market
The Roanoke farmers' market is one of the oldest such markets in continuous use in Virginia. In 1882, licenses were issued to twenty-five hucksters. T... [click for more]

Roanoke City Historical Marker
(Obverse:)The first village here, at Pate's Mill and Tavern on Evans' Mill Creek, was called Big Lick for nearby salt marshes. In 1839 it was laid off... [click for more]