Educational Programming available

Museum Educator Rich Davis of Roanoke County, who joined the Historical Society staff after retiring from a career in the

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Still Have 2020 Link Calendars

We still have a few 2020 O. Winston Link calendars of railroad images for sale at $15.99 plus tax. The

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Link Museum Loses a Great Friend

The Historical Society of Western Virginia lost a gracious supporter Aug. 7. Ellen Arnold, 88, a volunteer at the O.

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Visitors include resident of France

Donna Hartley, an ex-pat living in Paris, France, joined her friend Fritz Elder of Washington, D.C., for a recent visit

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Visit Link’s Astonishing Railroad Photos

Check out the O. Winston Link railroad-related photography in our Link museum. The world-class photos not only document the end

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$6 gets magazine of Link’s color photos

“Life Along the Line, in Color,” the current National Railway Historical Society Bulletin has devoted an issue to an article

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Norris Family Gift Supports Lectures

The family and friends of Betty Grubb Norris, who died Dec. 20, 2017, at age 93, have made a $3,500

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Thank goodness for volunteers!

The O. Winston Link Museum and History Museum of Western Virginia could not operate without volunteers, and we are fortunate

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Link’s train photos document rural culture

Winston Link’s photographs, on display at the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, focus on trains. They also are as

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Check out our digital collection

Take a trip back in time online at the Historical Society of Western Virginia collection of online archives. You can find

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