Local History
Crystal Spring Pump Station Opening Soon
The historic Crystal Spring Pump Station opens for the summer beginning Saturday, May 31. It will be open Saturdays from 12pm to 4pm and Sundays from 1pm to 4pm. Admission is free.
Historic boutique hotel built as bank
Liberty Trust Hotel, which opened in downtown Roanoke in March, has been hailed by Forbes Magazine and UK Times News as one of the “highly anticipated hotels” debuting in 2022. The Liberty Trust building, which opened in 1910 as home to First National Bank, is on the...
Link Video Streams on Blue Ridge PBS ECHO
Blue Ridge Public Television has scheduled the Historical Society documentary “Dreams in Steam, The Extraordinary Vision of W. Winston Link” to premiere on its ECHO channel as part of a local block of documentaries. The 30-minute film was just completed and partially...
Industry ‘Vagabonds’ camped in Virginia
In the summer of 1918, four celebrities, a slew of staff, and a caravan of cars stopped in Roanoke for a few hours on a two-week long camping trip through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and John Burroughs – essayist...