Triumph and Tragedy: A Railroad Struggle Instrumental in Creating Roanoke, Virginia

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2001

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Montgomery County Branch Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Pocahontas Press, Inc.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of History

Abstract

The story of two competing, post-Civil War railroads and the resulting birth of the city of Roanoke.

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History, Southwest Virginia, Blue Ridge

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