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The City Of Roanoke:
The : over the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Roanoke June 18, 1882, and the Roanoke Works (now the Norfolk and Wester was located in Roanoke the same year, the general offices of the Shenandoal Railroad and the Norfolk and Western were established in Roanoke. By Jan. the population of Roanoke had increase proximately 5.000. and that year the cc was incorporated by the Virginia Le as the City of Roanoke. Government i istered by a city manager and five coi Pop. 97,110.ROANOKE, sixth largest city, Virginia, situated in Roanoke County at an altitude of 945 feet; on the Roanoke River; the Norfolk and Western and the Virginian railroads; 161 miles southwest of Richmond and 52.6 miles southwest of Lynchburg. It is also served by several state and federal highways, and has a municipal airport. Situated in an amphitheater formed by the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains near the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley, the city is surrounded by an agricultural region devoted to general farming, dairying, trucking and fruit-growing.
Roanoke has an excellent public school system, embracing primary,junior high, and high schools. It a good public library. It is the home o Southern College, and the Roanoke the University of Virginia Extension Seven miles west, at Salem, is Roanol (for men and women) while six mile: the city is Hollins College (for womei Shortly after the War of 1812. an made by the Roanoke Navigation Cc make Roanoke River navigable, and all to navigation Tinker Creek to a po the Lynchburg road (United States R now crosses that stream east of the ci build a town there to be known as Pi Lots were sold, but the efforts to bui failed completely. The first village in ity was named Gainsboro, deriving its r Kemp Gaines who owned the land on village was built.
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