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ITEM NUMBER
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
SUBJECT: Work Session with Library Board
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION: The Library Board and the Board of
Supervisors meet on an annual basis to exchange information on the
Roanoke County Library System. This will be the first such meeting
with the new director, Spencer Watts.
An agenda for the session is attached.
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Roanoke County Libraries
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Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
ACTION VOTE
Approved ( )Motion by:
Denied ( ) Eddy
Received ( ) Kohinke
Referred Johnson
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AGENDA
WORK SESSION
MAY 12, 1992
ROANOKE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND LIBRARY BOARD
1. Introductions
2. Review of library's current operations, including status report on special projects:
Service levels
Staffing
VuText Project
Index/subject access to ROANOKER
VLIN (Virginia Library Information Network) telefacsimilie equipment support
3. Report on Automated Library System
4. Future plans for operations
5. Proposed North County Library and Bond Referendum
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AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SIIPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COIINTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANORE COIINTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
ON TIIESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
RESOLIITION 51292-8 CERTIFYING EXECIITIVE MEETING WAS
HELD IN CONFORMITY WITH THE CODE OF VIRGINIA
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County,
Virginia has convened an executive meeting on this date pursuant to
an affirmative recorded vote and in accordance with the provisions
of The Virginia Freedom of Information Act; and
WHEREAS, Section 2.1-344.1 of the Code of Virginia
requires a certification by the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke
County, Virginia, that such executive meeting was conducted in
conformity with Virginia law.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, hereby certifies that, to
the best of each members knowledge:
1. Only public business matters lawfully exempted from
open meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed in the
executive meeting which this certification resolution applies, and
2. Only such public business matters as were identified
in the motion convening the executive meeting were heard, discussed
or considered by the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County,
Virginia.
On motion of Supervisor Johnson to adopt the resolution,
and carried by the following recorded vote:
AYES: Supervisors Johnson, Kohinke, Minnix, Nickens, Eddy,
NAYS: None
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Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
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ROANOKE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
ACTION AGENDA
MAY 12, 1992
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Welcome to the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors meeting. Regular
meetings are held on the second Tuesday and the fourth Tuesday at 3:00
p.m. Public hearings are held at 7:00 p.m on the fourth Tuesday of each
month. Deviations from this schedule will be announced.
THIS IS STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY. THERE WILL BE A MOCK
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING PRIOR TO THE REGULAR
MEETING IN THE CO ROOM WITH STUDENTS FROM
ROANOKE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING IN THE
MEETING.
A. OPENING CEREMONIES (3:00 P.M.)
1. Roll Call.
ALL PRESENT AT 3:03 P.M.
2. Irrvocation: The Reverend Steven W. Harris
Baptist Children's Home
3. Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag.
B. REQUESTS TO POSTPONE, ADD TO, OR CHANGE THE
ORDER OF AGENDA ITEMS
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PMM ADDED ITEM H-3, ORDINANCE RECOr~VEYING REAL ESTATE
LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST INDUSTRIAL PARK
C. PROCIAMATIONS, RESOLUTIONS, RECOGNITIONS, AND
AWARDS
1. Resolution of Support for the Roanoke Area Job
Opportunities Convention on May 13, 1992.
R-51292-1
BIT MOTION TO APPROVE
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ACCEPTED BY TERN HOLBROOK, ROANOKE COUNTY SCHOOLS
2. Recognition of the Department of Management and
Budget for receiving the Distinguished Budget
Presentation Award.
ACCEPTED BY RETA BUSHER, DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
3. Proclamation declaring the Week of May 10 - 16 as
National Preservation Week in Roanoke County.
ACCEPTED BY TOHN FULTON~ DR. JOHN KERN AND DEEDIE
KAGEY
D. BRIEFINGS
1. Presentation on the Historic Resources Survey. (Jon
Hartley, Planning & Zoning)
PRESENTED BY TOHN HARTLEY, WILLIAM T. FRAZER,
CONSULTANT, AND DEEDIE KAGEY
2. Results of Employee Survey (Elmer C. Hodge, County
Administrator)
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PRESENTED BY ECH
HCN SUGGESTED THAT ANY ACTION TAKEN RE: SURVEY RESULTS
SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR INFORMATIVE
PURPOSES.
3. Draft of the Regional Cable TV Committee Agreement.
(Anne Marie Green, Public Information Officer)
PRESENTED BY AMG AND TOE OBENSHAIN
AGREEMENT TO BE BROUGHT BACK ON 5/26/92 FOR ACTION
HCN ASKED FOR INPUT FROM BOARD ON WHETHER TO SPEND
FRANCHISE FEE ON NEW SERVICE OR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
E. NEW BUSINESS
1. Adoption of a Proposed Statement of Position to be
Submitted to the State Corporation Commission on the
proposed Appalachian Power Company Transmission
Line. (Paul M. Mahoney, County Attorney)
A-51292-2
HCN MOTION TO APPROVE HIS MODIFIED STATEMENT OF
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2. Request from the Police Department to Accept two
Grants from the Division of Motor Vehicles for Radar
Detector Equipment. (John Cease, Police Chief)
A-51292-3
B T MOTION TO APPROVE
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3. Approval of Recommendations to the Virginia Association
of Counties for their Legislative Package. (Paul M.
Mahoney, County Attorney)
A-51292-4
HCN MOTION TO APPROVE WITH ITEMS 14,15,18 REMOVED AND
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STAFF REQUESTS INCLUDED.
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4. Request for Appropriation of Funds to Renovate the
Laver Floor of the Roanoke County Administration
Center. (Arnold Covey, Director of Engineering &
Inspections)
A-51292-5
BIiT MOTION TO APPROVE WITH FUNDS NOT TO EXCEED $47,500
AYES-BI{T,EGK,FM,HCN
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F. REQUESTS FOR WORK SESSIONS
1. Request for Joint Work Session with Planning
Commission on June 9, 1992. (Terry Harrington, Director
of Planning & Zoning)
WORK SESSION SET FOR 6/9/92
G. REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC HEpiRINGS
NONE
H. FIRST READING OF ORDINANCES
1. Ordinance Appropriating the Funds for the 1992-93
Fiscal Year Budget for Roanoke County. (Reta Busher,
Director of Management and Budget)
HCN MOTION TO APPROVE 1ST READING WITH CORRECTED
DATES
2ND - 5/26/92
AYES-EGK,FM,HCN
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2. Ordinance to Increase the Salaries of the Board of
Supervisors Pursuant to Section 3.07 of the Roanoke
County Charter and Section 14.1-46.01:1 of the Code of
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Virginia. (Paul M. Mahoney, County Attorney)
HCN MOTION TO APPROVE 1ST READING
2ND - 5/26/92
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3. Ordinance authorizing the reconveyance of a 0.470 acre
tract of real estate, more or less, located in the
Southwest Industrial Park.
EGK MOTION TO APPROVE 1ST READING
2ND - 5/26/93
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I. SECOND READING OF ORDINANCES
1. Ordinance amending Ordinance 52891-12 Reapportioning
the Representation in the Board of Supervisors of
Roanoke County, Virginia by Altering the Boundaries of
Certain Election Districts and Precincts by Establishing
a New Voting Precinct, Incorporating a Map Showing the
Boundaries of Said Districts and Precincts, and Providing
an Effective Date. (Paul M. Mahoney, County Attorney)
0-51292-6
EGK MOTION TO APPROVE
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J. APPOINTMENTS
1. Board of Zoning Appeals
2. Fifth Planning District Commission
EGK NOMINATED EDWARD KOHINKE TO A THItEE-YEAR TERM AS
ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE. TERM WILL EXPIRE 6/30/95
3. Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission
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4. Roanoke Valley Regional Cable TV Committee
5. Total Action Against Poverty Board of Directors
HCN NOMINATED E. CABELL BRAND AS TOINT APPOINTEE WITH
SALEM. TWO-YEAR TERM TO EXPIRE MAY 5, 1994.
K. CONSENT AGENDA
ALL MATTERS LISTED UNDER THE CONSENT AGENDA
ARE CONSIDERED BY THE BOARD TO BE ROUTINE AND
WII.L BE ENACTED BY ONE RESOLUTION IN THE FORM OR
FORMS LISTED BELOW. IF DISCUSSION IS DESIRED, THAT
ITEM WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND
WII.L BE CONSIDERED SEPARATELY.
R-51292-7
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1. Confirmation of Committee Appointment to the Total
Action Against Poverty Board of Directors.
A-51292-7.a
2. Approval of the Economic Development Strategy for
Roanoke County.
R-51292-7.b
3. Approval of Fireworks Display Permit for Hollins College
Corporation.
A-51292-7.c
4. Acceptance of 0.29 miles of Mallard Lake Drive and 0.09
miles of Mallard Lake Court into the Virginia
Department of Transportation Secondary System.
A-51292-7.d
L. REPORTS AND INQUIRIES OF BOARD MEMBERS
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SUPERVISOR KOHINKE THANKED STAFF AND SCHOOLS FOR
COUNTY GOVERNMENT DAY.
SUPERVISOR EDDY: ASKED ABOUT TOINING APPALACHIAN
REGIONAL COMII~IISSION. ECH ADVISED TWG WILL BE
ATTENDING OLIN'S PRESENTATION. RESO OF SUPPORT WILL
BE BROUGHT TO BOARD ON 5/26/92 -CITY COUNCIL WILL DO
THE SAME.
M. CITIZENS' COMII~NTS AND COMIIIUNICATIONS
NONE
N. REPORTS
BIzT MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE - UW
1. General Fund Unappropriated Balance
2. Capital Fund Unappropriated Balance
3. Board Contingency Fund
4. Monthly Report on 1991 Water Projects
5. Monthly Report on Smith Gap Landfill
6. Proclamations Signed by the Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors
RECESS - 5:07 P.M.
O. WORK SESSIONS (5:00 P.M.)
1. Joint Work Session with Parks and Recreation
Commission.
5:15 P.M.
JC PRESENTED ANNUAL WORK PLAN AND ITEMS TO BE
CONSIDERED IN BOND WHICH EQUAL $2.SM.
P&R COMII~IISSION TO BRING BACK RECOMII~NDATIONS FROM
CO11~IlViENTS ON 5/26/92
2. Joint Work Session with Library Board
6:25 P.M.
P&R TO BEGIN SITE SEARCH FOR HOLLINS-NO.RKE LIBRARY AND
STAFF WILL ASSIST IN DETERMINING SUITABILITY.
PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF OLD LIBRARY WILL BE USED TOWARD
NEW LIBRARYi TOTAL ESTIMATED AMOUNT - $1.6M
P. EXECUTIVE SESSION pursuant to the Code of Virginia
Section 2.1-344 A as follows: (1) Personnel Matter, i.e.
performance evaluation of certain County officials; (7)
Consultation with legal counsel and briefings by staff members,
pertaining to actual or probable litigation, (a) Dixie Caverns
Landfill, and (b) claim of Hayes, Seay, Mattern and Mattern
regarding Starkey Treatment Plant.
FM MOTION AT 7:15 P.M.
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Q. CERTIFICATION OF EXECUTIVE SESSION
R-51292-8
B T MOTION TO APPROVE AT 8:05 P.M.
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B T MOTION AT 8:07 - URC
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ROANOKE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
AGENDA
MAY 12, 1992
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Welcome to the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors meeting. Regular
meetings are held on the second Tuesday and the fourth Tuesday at 3:00
p.m. Public hearings are held at 7:00 p.m on the fourth Tuesday of each
month. Deviations from this schedule will be announced.
THIS IS STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY. THERE WILL BE A MOCK
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING PRIOR TO THE REGULAR
MEETING IN THE COMIVIUNI'I'Y ROOM WITH STUDENTS FROM
ROANOKE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING IN THE
MEETING.
A. OPENING CEREMONIES (3:00 P.M.)
1. Roll Call.
2. Invocation: The Reverend Steven W. Harris
Baptist Children's Home
3. Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag.
B. REQUESTS TO POSTPONE, ADD TO, OR CHANGE THE
ORDER OF AGENDA ITEMS
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C. PROCIAMATIONS, RESOLUTIONS, RECOGI~TITIONS, AND
AWARDS
1. Resolution of Support for the Roanoke Area Job
Opportunities Convention on May 13, 1992.
2. Recognition of the Department of Management and
Budget for receiving the Distinguished Budget
Presentation Award.
3. Proclamation declaring the Week of May 10 - 16 as
National Preservation Week in Roanoke County.
D. BRIEFINGS
1. Presentation on the Historic Resources Survey. (Jon
Hartley, Planning & Zoning)
2. Results of Employee Survey (Elmer C. Hodge, County
Administrator)
3. Draft of the Regional Cable TV Committee Agreement.
(Anne Marie Green, Public Information Officer)
E. NEW BUSINESS
1. Adoption of a Proposed Statement of Position to be
Submitted to the State Corporation Commission on the
proposed Appalachian Power Company Transmission
Line. (Paul M. Mahoney, County Attorney)
2. Request from the Police Department to Accept two
Grants from the Division of Motor Vehicles for Radar
Detector Equipment. (John Cease, Police Chief)
3. Approval of Recommendations to the Virginia Association
of Counties for their Legislative Package. (Paul M.
Mahoney, County Attorney)
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4. Request for Appropriation of Funds to Renovate the
Lower Floor of the Roanoke County Administration
Center. (Arnold Covey, Director of Engineering &
Inspections)
F. REQUESTS FOR WORK SESSIONS
1. Request for Joint Work Session with Planning
Commission on June 9, 1992. (Terry Harrington, Director
of Planning & Zoning)
G. REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS
H. FIRST READING OF ORDINANCES
1. Ordinance Appropriating the Funds for the 1992-93
Fiscal Year Budget for Roanoke County. (Reta Busher,
Director of Management and Budget)
2. Ordinance to Increase the Salaries of the Board of
Supervisors Pursuant to Section 3.07 of the Roanoke
County Charter and Section 14.1-46.01:1 of the Code of
Virginia. (Paul M. Mahoney, County Attorney)
I. SECOND READING OF ORDINANCES
1. Ordinance amending Ordinance 52891-12 Reapportioning
the Representation in the Board of Supervisors of
Roanoke County, Virginia by Altering the Boundaries of
Certain Election Districts and Precincts by Establishing
a New Voting Precinct, Incorporating a Map Showing the
Boundaries of Said Districts and Precincts, and
Providing an Effective Date. (Paul M. Mahoney, County
Attorney)
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J. APPOIlVTMENTS
1. Board of Zoning Appeals
2. Fifth Planning District Commission
3. Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission
4. Roanoke Valley Regional Cable TV Committee
5. Total Action Against Poverty Board of Directors
K. CONSENT AGENDA
ALL MATTERS LISTED UNDER THE CONSENT AGENDA
ARE CONSIDERED BY THE BOARD TO BE ROUTINE AND
WILL BE ENACTED BY ONE RESOLUTION IN THE FORM OR
FORMS LISTED BELOW. IF DISCUSSION IS DESIRED, THAT
ITEM WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND
WILL BE CONSIDERED SEPARATELY.
1. Confirmation of Committee Appointment to the Total
Action Against Poverty Board of Directors.
2. Approval of the Economic Development Strategy for
Roanoke County.
3. Approval of Fireworks Display Permit for Hollins College
Corporation.
4. Acceptance of 0.29 miles of Mallard Lake Drive and 0.09
miles of Mallard Lake Court into the Virginia
Department of Transportation Secondary System.
L. REPORTS AND INQUIRIES OF BOARD MEMBERS
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M. CITIZENS' CONIlVIENTS AND CO1bIlVIU1VICATIONS
N. REPORTS
1. General Fund Unappropriated Balance
2. Capital Fund Unappropriated Balance
3. Board Contingency Fund
4. Monthly Report on 1991 Water Projects
5. Monthly Report on Smith Gap Landfill
6. Proclamations Signed by the Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors
O. WORK SESSIONS (5:00 P.M.)
1. Joint Work Session with Parks and Recreation
Commission.
2. Joint Work Session with Library Board
P. EXECUTIVE SESSION pursuant to the Code of Virginia
Section 2.1-344 A as follows: (1) Personnel Matter, i.e.
performance evaluation of certain County officials; (7)
Consultation with legal counsel and briefings by staff members,
pertaining to actual or probable litigation, (a) Dixie Caverns
Landfill, and (b) claim of Hayes, Seay, Mattern and Mattern
regarding Starkey Treatment Plant.
Q. CERTIFICATION OF EXECUTIVE SESSION
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
RESOLUTION 51292-1 OF SUPPORT FOR THE ROANORE AREA
JOB OPPORTUNITIES CONVENTION ON MAY 13, 1992
WHEREAS, the second annual Roanoke Area Job
WHEREAS, the Roanoke Area Job Opportunities is jointly
sponsored by the Roanoke County Schools, Botetourt County Schools,
Craig County Schools, Roanoke City Schools, and Salem City Schools;
and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the Roanoke Area Job
Opportunities Convention will be held May 13, 1992, at the Salem
Civic Center; and
Opportunities Convention is to provide an opportunity for business,
industry, and government representatives to interview 1992
graduating seniors with marketable skills and a desire for full-
time employment; and
WHEREAS, the Roanoke County School Board believes that
such an event will be a learning experience to those students
seeking full-time employment after graduation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that We, the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, do support the Roanoke
Area Job Opportunities Convention to be held on May 13, 1992, as
being in the best interest of Roanoke County and the surrounding
areas.
FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
extends its best wishes for a successful event to all participants.
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On motion of Supervisor Johnson to adopt the resolution,
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AYES: Supervisors Johnson, Kohinke, Minnix, Nickens, Eddy,
NAYS: None
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Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
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Dr. Bayes Wilson, Superintendent, Roanoke County Schools
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR THE ROANOKE AREA
JOB OPPORTUNITIES CONVENTION ON MAY 13, 1992
WHEREAS, the second annual Roanoke Area Job
Opportunities Convention will be held May 13, 1992, at the Salem
Civic Center; and
WHEREAS, the Roanoke Area Job Opportunities is jointly
sponsored by the Roanoke County Schools, Botetourt County Schools,
Craig County Schools, Roanoke City Schools, and Salem City Schools;
and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the Roanoke Area Job
Opportunities Convention is to provide an opportunity for business,
industry, and government representatives to interview 1992
graduating seniors with marketable skills and a desire for full-
time employment; and
WHEREAS, the Roanoke County School Board believes that
such an event will be a learning experience to those students
seeking full-time employment after graduation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that We, the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, do support the Roanoke
Area Job Opportunities Convention to be held on May 13, 1992, as
being in the best interest of Roanoke County and the surrounding
areas.
FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
extends its best wishes for a successful event to all participants.
ACTION NO.
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Recognition of the Department of Management and
Budget for receiving the Distinguished Budget
Presentation Award.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
Ms. Busher and the budget staff are to be commended for achieving this award.
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
For the fifth straight year, the Government Finance Officers
Association has awarded their Distinguished Budget Presentation
Award to Roanoke County and the Department of Management and
Budget.
This award is the highest form of recognition in governmental
budgeting. To receive the award, governments submit their budget
document for review by a panel of independent budget experts who
evaluate the effectiveness of the budget as a policy document, a
financial plan, an operations guide and a communication device.
Director of Management and Budget Reta Busher will be present at
the May 12 meeting to receive the plaque.
Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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ACTION VOTE
Approved ( ) Motion by: No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) Eddy
Received ( ) Johnson
Referred ( ) Kohinke
To ( ) Minnix
Nickens
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NUMBER
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Proclamation Declaring the Week of May 10 - 16,
1992 as National Preservation Week in the
County of Roanoke
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
The Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation has requested that the
attached proclamation be adopted by the Board of Supervisors.
At the meeting on May 12, Mr. John Fulton, President of the Roanoke
Valley Preservation Foundation, will be accompanied by Dr. John
Kern, Director of the Department of Historic Resources Roanoke
Regional Preservation Office, and Dr. Deedie Kagey local historian
and author. They will briefly address the Board with comments on
Preservation Week and their work in the organization's community.
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ACTION VOTE
Approved ( ) Motion by: No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) Eddy
Received ( ) Johnson
Referred ( ) Kohinke
To ( ) Minnix
Nickens
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
PROCLAMATION DECLARING THE WEER OF MAY 10 THROUGH 16,
1992, AS NATIONAL PRESERVATION WEER
WHEREAS, Historic Preservation gives Americans an
authentic experience of their diverse heritage and provides
direction for future generations; and
WHEREAS, Historic Preservation enhances the livability
of cities, towns and rural areas across America; and
WHEREAS, Preservation Week 1992 provides an opportunity
for citizens of all ages and all cultures to maintain, preserve,
and protect America's heritage.
WHEREAS, "Preservation Brings History to Life" is the
theme for Preservation Week 1992, co-sponsored by the Roanoke
Valley Preservation Foundation, Roanoke Regional Preservation
Office, and other local preservation organizations in the Roanoke
Valley, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
NOW, THEREFORE, We, the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke
County, Virginia, do hereby proclaim the week of May 10 through 16,
1992, as NATIONAL PRESERVATION WEER and call upon our citizens to
recognize and participate in this special observance.
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NO. °'
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: PRESENTATION OF HISTORIC RESOURCES INVENTORY REPORT
AND PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE HISTORIC
RESOURCES ADVISORY COMMITTEE (HRAC).
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
This has been an excellent start. We need to incorporate recommendations of the committee into our
long range plans. We also need to do something similar with our natural resources such as Dixie Caverns
and Cave Spring, and to preserve some of the early Indian and pioneer sites.
BACKGROUND'
In October 1990, Roanoke County received a 50/50 matching grant in
the amount of $20,000 from the Virginia Department of Historic
Resources (VDHR) to conduct an inventory of historic resources in
the County. This grant was pursued at the encouragement of the
Roanoke Regional Preservation Office and the Roanoke Valley
Preservation Foundation due to: 1) the limited number of sites
previously identified in the County (76 sites); 2) the need for
such a survey, as recommended in the County's Comprehensive Plan,
as a useful planning tool for the objective evaluation of sig-
nificant properties; 3) the need to promote civic pride and
heritage education. The Board supported pursuing this grant by a
resolution adopted May 22, 1990.
The grant was to complete a reconnaissance level survey of historic
buildings and structures, with an emphasis on architecture, which
met the criteria adopted by the VDHR and the U. S. Department of
Interior (DOI) for such surveys. The County contracted with the
firm of Frazier Associates located in Staunton, VA, to conduct the
actual survey and prepare the necessary documentation and reports
required by VDHR. This documentation included written descrip-
tions, photographs, and mapped locations of sites surveyed, a
summary report analyzing the sites identified and their context
within the history of the County, and a slide presentation
providing an overview of the survey and findings. The project has
been administered by staff under the auspices of an ad hoc
citizen's advisory committee, called the Historic Resources
Advisory Committee (HRAC). A listing of the members is attached
for your information.
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SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
The survey and final report have been completed and will be
presented to the Board, along with the slide presentation at the
scheduled work session by Bill Frazier of Frazier Associates. A
total of 410 structures were inventoried in this survey. This, in
conjunction with the 76 sites previously identified and the sites
identified by the Roanoke Regional Preservation Office in Catawba
Valley, brings the total number of documented sites in the County
to 626. Frazier Associates has also recommended 11 individual
properties and 5 potential districts which may be eligible for
listing on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National
Register of Historic Places. An excerpt from the report listing
these properties and districts is attached for your information.
These are in addition to those already listed on the National
Register (Hollins College Quadrangle and the Denton Tomb) and those
determined to be eligible (the Harshbarger House, Catawba Rural
Historic District, and Crystal Creek Historic District). The State
and Federal Registers are listings of significant historic and
architectural sites meeting certain minimum criteria. They are
educational in nature and carry no direct limitation on an
individual owner's property rights.
With the completion of this survey, the staff and HRAC have
identified a number of activities described on the attached listing
of priorities it feels should be pursued in order to promote
greater awareness of these cultural resources. With the Boards
concurrence, the HRAC will explore these activities and return to
the Board with specific recommendations.
Respectfully submitt
Jon~han Hartley
Pla er
Motion by
Approved ( )
Denied ( )
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Referred
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Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
Action Vote
No Yes Abs
Eddy
Johnson
Kohinke
Minnix
Nickens
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August 13, 1991
MEMBERSHIP LIST OF
HISTORIC PRESERVATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Dr. Deedie Kagey
4496 Bonsack Road
Roanoke, VA 24012
Work: 772-7590
Home: 977-3316
Hollins Magisterial District
Dr. John R. Kern, Director
Roanoke Regional Preservation
Office
1030 Penmar Avenue, SE
Roanoke, VA 24013
Work: 857-7585
Mr. Don Witt, AIA
3332 Kenwick Trail, SW
Roanoke, VA 24018
Work: 982-2321
Cave Spring Magisterial
District
Mr. William L. Whitwell
1255 Keffield Street
Roanoke, VA 24019
Home: 366-1186
Work: 362-6617
Hollins Magisterial District
Mrs. Evie Gunter
2805 Pinevale Road
Roanoke, VA 24018
Home: 989-7392
Work: 981-2344
Windsor Hills
District
Magisterial
Mrs. Martha Smith
7474 Blacksburg Road
Catawba, VA 24070
Home: 384-6552
Work: 772-7560
Catawba Magisterial District
Ms. Frances Payne
1213 Washington Ave.
Vinton, VA 24179
Home: 342-1009
Vinton Magisterial District
Staff Support
Jonathan Hartley
Dept. of Planning & Zoning
P.O. Box 29800
Roanoke, VA 24018
Work: 772-2092
772-2030 (FAX)
Home: 342-6927
Consultant
Mr. William T. Frazier
Frazier Associates
121 South Augusta Street
Staunton, VA 24401
Work: (703) 886-6230
(Ms. Nancy Shareff)
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
NATIONAL REGISTER AND
SURVEY
POTENTIAL INDIVIDUAL
NOMINATIONS
Harris Farm, 5403 Bent Mountain Rd. (80-294)
The Harris House and its related outbuildings
represent a highly intact mid-19th century
farmstead. The house began as a two-room log
structure ca. 1830-50, with most of the original
mantels and interior trim remaining intact.
This is one of the best preserved of the early
19th century log dwellings to survive in the
survey area. The farm contains an excellent
grouping of representative outbuildings,
including a log dairy, corncrib, smokehouse,
wash house, springhouse, corncrib, and two
chicken houses.
Bellvue Farm, 5648 Roselawn Rd. (80-292)
Bellevue Farm illustrates the transition in
local vernacular architecture from the smaller
log houses of the early 19th century through
the more popular I-house design by the end of
the century. The house began as a single log
pen, enlarged later in the century into the more
popular I-house and decorated with atwo-
story gallery porch. The farm retains a
significant collection of outbuildings, including
a springhouse, smoke house, and corncrib.
Bellvue represents the type of small farm
engaged in the prosperous orchard business in
the Bent Mountain area in the early 20th
century. One of its tenant houses, associated
with the orchard business, survives on the
farm.
McCray Farm, 7184 Old Mill Rd. (80-301)
The McCray Farm is significant for its well-
preserved vernacular domestic building forms
and as a representative orchard farm in the
Bent Mountain community. The oldest part of
the house, currently the ell, was atwo-room
hall-parlor plan, built ca. 1820-40, which
retains a high degree of interior integrity. The
house was enlarged between 1890 and 1910 with
a decorated frame I-house, reflecting the
growing prosperity of this community. Like the
original part, the addition survives with few
changes. The farm contains a variety of
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associated barns and outbuildings, the most
significant being a brick drying-house, the only
documented example of this type in the county.
The drying house was used to dry orchard
products from the farm.
Speedwell, 6135 Merriman Rd. (80-27)
Speedwell is one of the best preserved
antebellum houses in Roanoke County. The
house, built ca. 1831, is a brick I-house with
most of its original Federal trim surviving in
excellent condition. A significant cluster of
outbuildings survive with the house, including
a detached kitchen, log corncrib,. early 19th
century brick kitchen/house, well, and barn. A
small family cemetery, dating to the 1700
survives near the house. The surrounding
village of Starkey takes its name from this
home, after Tazewell and Henrietta Harvey
Starkey who owned the property when the
railroad came through the area. This property
has a significant front portico addition made by
local craftsman Gustavus Sedon around 1877.
Pleasant Grove, 4377 W. Main St. (80-25)
Pleasant Grove is significant for its well-
preserved late antebellum house and the
survival of several important outbuilding types
from the same period. The house, built ca. 1853,
is a brick I-house, with early Greek
Revival/late Federal style trim, most of which
remains intact. The most significant
outbuildings aze a two-room brick slave house,
one of the very few surveyed in the county; a
brick smokehouse; and a brick springhouse. The
woodwork in the house was executed by
Gustavus Sedon, awell-known local joiner and
carpenter.
Nininger Home, 6103 Plantation Rd. (80-34)
The Nininger House, built ca. 1863, is a well-
preserved example of the larger mid-19th
century homes in Roanoke County. The house,
which is in excellent condition, retains most of
its original Greek Revival/late Federal style
trim. Several related outbuildings survive,
including a brick meat house, garage, and three
barns.
Gray-Flora House, 6113 Plantation Rd. (80-24)
The Gray-Flora house represents the type of
large brick home built in Roanoke County
during the mid-19th century. The brick I-house
retains much of its original interior and exterior
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integrity, in spite of recent remodeling into
apartments. Significant outbuildings include a
two-level log outbuildings with projecting roof,
a typical local design, and two later barns.
Dr. Gale House, 4909 Cave Spring Lane (80-10)
The Gale house illustrates the type of large
brick houses found among the county's more
prominent families in the mid-19th century.
The brick house, ca. 1860-80, features most of its
original mantels and interior finish. Dr. Joseph
Gale, the original owner, founded the Lewis-
Gale Hospital in Roanoke. The present owners
are interested in National Register
designation.
The Gray House, 6615 Peters Creek Rd. (80-401)
The Gray House is one of the largest and most
stylish examples of the American Foursquare
dwelling in Roanoke County. The house reflects
some craftsman influences, with its sleeping
porch and and exterior detailing. The property
retains a high degree of integrity, with few
exterior or interior alterations.
5122 Old Virginia Spring Rd. (80-377)
This house is a rare Roanoke County example of
Tudor Revival domestic architecture, built in a
rural setting ca. 1920 -1940. The house features
a blend of stone and half-timbered frame
construction in an irregular plan, which
features a variety of porches and gables.
Situated in the woods, with a creek to the
north, this property illustrates the local trend
to build vacation and sometimes permanent
residences in rustic settings during the early
20th centuries.
Boxmont,1911 Mountain View Road (80-595)
Boxwood is an excellent example of a very
prosperous early 20th century Roanoke County
farm. The house, built in 1937, presents a large
and stylish example of the Colonial Revival
style. The site retains a high degree of
integrity with its gardens and related farm and
outbuildings, including a stable, tenant house,
two brick barns, and a shed barn, still in a rural
setting.
POTENTIAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS
Historic districts offer the opportunity to
register significant groupings of related historic
resources, which include a variety of resource
types and possible azchaeological interest.
These proposed districts contain many
examples of typical vernacular building forms,
which gain greater significance when
considered in the broader historic and
architectural context. The recommended
districts included here cover resources from
many of the historic themes.
janee Drive
This proposed historic district would include a
cluster of approximately eight weekend
cottages in a rustic creek-side setting along
Janee Drive, in an azea near Hanging Rock.
During the early twentieth century, many such
cottages were built as rural retreats, for
weekend homes or sometimes permanent
residences. This grouping of cottages is
significant for its intact setting and well-
preserved buildings.
Hollins College Historic District
The Hollins College Historic District, which
now includes the campus quadrangle, should be
extended to include approximately fifteen more
buildings in the surrounding neighborhood.
These structures, dating to the early 20th
century, are used for classrooms and residences.
Bonsack
The village of Bonsack includes a significant
grouping of twenty structures, including a wide
range of house types, churches, and commercial
structures. The Bonsack area was one of the
first to be settled in the county, quickly
becoming an important commercial center in the
county. A early woolen mill, built in 1822,
operated in Bonsack throughout much of the
19th century. The town prospered with the
railroad, which came through in 1852 and
established a depot here.
Wabun
The Wabun community illustrates the type of
small crossroads communities that evolved in
Roanoke County during the 19th century. This
example is located in one of the best such
collections of vernacular buildings in the
southwest part of the county. Wabun includes a
representative early twentieth century store, a
vernacular Queen Anne dwelling, and several
vernacular residences from the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries.
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Kingstown
Kingstown is significant as a little altered
example of a rural black community in Roanoke
County. Located northwest of Roanoke, the
community retains an excellent collection of
buildings, including several turn-of-the-century
dwellings; a church, rebuilt ca. 1909; and a
school house, ca. 1885.. These buildings reflect
the very common vernacular forms of their
period. Several descendents of original settlers
to the community still reside here.
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GOALS AND PRIORITIES OF THE ROANOKE COUNTY
HISTORIC RESOURCES ADVISORY COMMITTEE
With the completion of the survey conducted by Frazier Associates, the Historic Resources
Advisory Committee has established the following goals which they propose to pursue.
Phase I - These activities are to be undertaken over the next two year period.
1) Resource Mapping - Prepare a set of maps showing the location of the sites surveyed
for incorporation, as an appendix, into the Final Report prepared by Frazier Associates.
2) Comprehensive Plan Revision -Prepare amendments to the Comprehensive Plan's
Resource Protection Guide for consideration and approval by the Planning Commission
and Board of Supervisors, expanding and refining the policies and recommendations
for all Cultural Resources.
3) Heritage Education/Heritage Tourism -Develop programs and materials to increase the
awareness of the historic and archeological resources in the County. Such efforts
would focus on the schools, and the general and touring public, as well as the owners
of properties included in the survey.
4) Permanent Historic Advisory Commission -Research and develop a proposal for the
creation of a permanent advisory body to oversee and direct historic preservation
efforts in the County. This body could also serve as a clearinghouse for evaluating
the impacts of public and private projects on significant resources.
Phase II -These are activities to be considered in the two to five year period, but may be
undertaken sooner depending upon the availability of funding.
1) Full Survey Computerization -Computerization of all of the survey data should be
undertaken once the Integrated Preservation Software system under development by
the Virginia Department of Historic Resources is completed and fully tested.
2) National Register Nominations -Seek additional state and local funding to prepare the
documentation on eligible properties and districts for the Virginia Landmarks Register
and the National Register of Historic Places.
3) Additional Survey Work -Seek additional state and local funding to continue more
detailed or specialized survey work, including a survey of undocumented 20th century
structures and a thematic survey of agricultural buildings.
Phase III - This phase would focus on specific measures for local protection of significant
historic and archeological resources to be considered in the five to ten year
time frame, including historic zoning, easement programs, financial incentives
and other measures to be developed more fully in Phase I and II.
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HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE
RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY
REPORT
ROANOKE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
prepared by
FRAZIEtt AsSOCIATEs
Apri11992
HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Roanoke County Department of
Planning and Zoning
Terrance Harrington, Director of Planning
Jonathan Hartley, Planner
Historic Resources Advisory
Committee
Dr. Deedie Kagey, Chair
John R. Kern, Director of Roanoke Regional
Preservation Office
Don Witt, AIA
William L. Whitwell
Evie Gunter
Martha Smith
Frances Payne
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
Lee B. Eddy, Chairman
Edward G. Kohinke, Vice Chairman
Harry C. Nickens
Bob L. Johnson
H. Odell "Fuzzy" Minnix
County Administrator
Elmer C. Hodge, Jr.
Project Consultants
Frazier Associates
121 South Augusta Street
Staunton, Virginia 24401
William T. Frazier, Principal
Ann McCleary, Project Editor
Nancy Shareff, Project Manager
Randy Skeirik, Surveyor
Lisa Tucker, Surveyor
This publication is sponsored by Roanoke
County. It is funded in part by a grant from the
Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COUNTY OVERVIEW
Historical Overview
Physical Characteristics
Cities, Towns, and Villages
SURVEY METHODOLOGY
Background to the Survey
Survey Objectives
Survey Methods and Research Design
SUMMARY OF SURVEY FINDINGS
HISTORIC CONTEXT AND
Ethnicity/Immigration
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Settlement Patterns
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Residential and Domestic
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Agriculture
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Government/Law/Political
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Health Care/Medicine
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Education
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Military
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Religion
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Social
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Recreation/Arts
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS
Architecture
Transportation/Communication
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
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Historic Context
Surveyed Resources ~ 5
Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources ~ 8
Landscape
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources ~ 8
Funerary
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
Architecture/Landscape Architecture/Community Planning
7 8
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources ~ 9
Technology/Engineering
Historic Context
Surveyed Resources
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NATIONAL REGISTER AND SURVEY 82
Individual Nominations
Historic Districts
Future Survey Recommendations
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PLANNING 85
Education
Distribution of Survey Forms to Property Owners
Technical Rehabilitation Brochures for Property Owners
Tour Brochure
Audiovisual Presentations on Historic Resources
Local Awards
Newpaper Article Series
Heritage Education in the Schools 8 6
Protection
National Register Nominations
Zoning Study of Historic Sites for Impact
Local Historic Zoning Overlay
Local Historic Resources Commission
Easement Program
Historic Sites Entry into County Info Base (GIS)
Public Properties Acquisition
Conditional Zoning for Historic Sites
Preservation Strategies and the Comprehensive Plan
RESOURCES FOR PRESERVATION 89
National
State
Local
Audio-Visual Materials
Bibliography
APPENDICES: INDEXES TO SURVEY SITES 9 3
Numerical Listing
Alphabetical Listing
COUNTY OVERVIEW
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Settlement began in Roanoke County in the
mid-18th century, with the first immigration
into the Great Valley of Virginia. The earliest
settlers were Scots-Irish who came south along
the Great Wagon Road, through the
Shenandoah Valley and into the Roanoke
River Valley. The earliest settlements
naturally occurred in the northern areas,
including Catawba and the Botetourt
Springs/Hollins area. Germans began to settle
in Roanoke County in increasing numbers,
particularly in the last two decades of the 18th
century.
By 1838, Roanoke County was established,
with the growing town of Salem as its county
seat. Roanoke County had its roots as an
agrarian economy, dominated by wheat and
later tobacco cultivation and their related
industries, milling and tobacco processing. In
1852, the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
completed tracks through Salem and, two years
later, to Bristol improving access to eastern
markets. By the 1880s, Roanoke had become a
major transportation hub for several railroads,
particulazly when Norfolk and Western
Railroad established Roanoke as the major
office of its Virginia operations. Between 1880
and 1900, the county and the cities of Roanoke
and Salem experienced rapid growth and
urbanization. In the twentieth century, the
agricultural base has declined with the
increased urban growth of Roanoke and Salem,
particularly since 1950. Today, the city of
Roanoke is the regional center for industry and
commerce in southwest Virginia.
PHYSICAL SETTING
Roanoke County is located in the Ridge and
Valley province of western Virginia, between
what is often called the Valley of Virginia, or
the Shenandoah Valley, and southwest
Virginia. It is bounded by Botetourt and Craig
Counties on the north, Franklin and Bedford
Counties on the east, Floyd and Franklin
Counties on the south, and Montgomery County
on the west. The county contains 248 square
miles.
Two mountain ranges flank Roanoke County -
the Blue Ridge Mountains to the southeast and
the Allegheny Front to the west. The county
contains numerous mountains, including Fort
Lewis Mountain, l l miles west of Salem; Poor
and Bent Mountains, in the southwest part of
the county; and Twelve O'Clock Mountain, near
Salem. Green Ridge, Smith Ridge, and Tinker
Mountain surround Carvin's Cove, Roanoke
City's major source fo water.
The Roanoke River, sometimes called the
Staunton River, flows eastward across the
county into northern North Carolina and the
Atlantic Ocean. Tinker Creek is the county's
major tributary; others include include Mason
Creek, Back Creek, and Glade Creek. The
county has several smaller creeks, such as
Carvin, Cravan, Mud Lick, Wolf, and Peters
Creeks.
CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Roanoke County contains two cities within its
bounds -Salem and Roanoke. The first major
town to develop in Roanoke County was Salem,
which was located along the Great Road, a
major transportation artery which brought
settlers in from the northeast. In June 1802,
James Simpson laid out the town's first lots on
his newly acquired tract of 31 acres. By 1804,
Simpson had sold 381ots. Two years later,
Salem was established as a town, which
continued to grow with new lots and increased
settlement in the 1810s and 1820s. Martin's
Gazateer of 1834 described the town as
containing 70 houses, six stores, three taverns,
schools, churches, and a variety of craft shops,
including a large saw, carding, and grist mill.
Salem was incorporated as a town in 1838, when
it became the county seat, and was recognized
as the center for business, commerce, and
religion in the county. Salem continued to grow
with the railroad, becoming the site of many
industries in the 20th century. In 1968, Salem
became an incorporated aty.1
Roanoke began as a smaller settlement, but
boomed with the railroad in the 1880s.
iDeedie Dent ICagey, When Past is Prologue: A
History of Roanoke County (Marceline, Mo:
Walsworth Press, Inc., 1988), p. 93-4.
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Roanoke had its beginnings in the 1760s as a
small agricultural settlement at the Big Lick,
so-called for the salt deposits in the vicinity.
In 1834, the 68 acre tract owned by William
Rowland was subdivided into lots, and soon
renamed Gainesborough, after a major investor
in the property. Big Lick remained a small
agricultural settlement through the mid-19th
century, with only 20 dwellings, three
churches, several businesses, and a harness
manufacture by 1860. The Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad completed its tracks
through the village of Roanoke in 1852,
establishing a depot called Big Lick. During
this decade of the 1850s, the town became a
center of the tobacco trade, containing three
tobacco warehouses which employed 68 men.
The town began to grow more quickly, becoming
incorporated as the town of Big Lick in 1874?
The major impetus to Roanoke's growth occurred
in 1882, when the Norfolk and Western
railroad began its operations to Roanoke and
set up their regional headquarters and railroad
shops in the town, making this the hub of
Virginia's transportation system. Within two
years, the population had grown to 5,000
residents, and the number of buildings increased
from 119 to 747. Roanoke incorporated as a city
in 1884, combining the communities of Old Lick
and Big Lick. By 1900, Roanoke had a
population of around 22,000. Today, Roanoke is
the largest city in southwest Virginia and the
business center for the southwest Virginia.
Roanoke County contains several smaller towns,
villages, and agricultural settlements that
have played an important part in its history.
The earliest settlement in the present county
area occurred in the Catawba Valley, located
in the northwestern part of the county. A
"Road up Catawba" was noted as a road or
trace by 1750, and was one of the earliest routes
from the James to the New River Valley.
Permanent settlement of the Catawba Valley
occurred largely after the French and Indian
War in the 1760s. Catawba became a
prosperous agricultural community during the
antebellum period. Farmers transported their
goods by wagon to Buchanan, where they were
sent down the James River. By the 1830s, the
2Kagey, pp. 60,111-2.
town of Springfield had been laid out on the
southern end of Catawba Valley. The Roanoke
Red Sulphur Springs resort was established by
Salem entrepreneurs in 1857. Catawba
continued to prosper during the late 19th
century, with its popular springs resort and
various mining operations. In the early
twentieth century, the state purchased the
former springs resort and converted the building
into the state's first sanatorium. Catawba
retains one of the best collections of 19th century
buildings in Roanoke County 3
The community of Bonsack was settled along
one of the first major east-west routes through
Roanoke County in the northwestern part of the
county. This road, now U.S. Route 460, was first
established by the Augusta County Court in
1740 and called the Traders Path. The trail led
from Lynchburg to the Big Lick area, bringing
people from the Piedmont into the Roanoke
Valley. The first people settling in the
Bonsack area came in the 1750s, followed by a
large group of German Baptists after the
Revolutionary War. This community had
several names, including Glade Creek and later
Stoner's Store, but it acquired the name of
Bonsack with the coming of the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad. The Bonsack family,
which first acquired land here in 1818, donated
the land for the depot, which was constructed
in 1852. The Bonsacks established a prosperous
woolen mill (1822), flour mill, and later a
Cigarette-Rolling Machine Company (1882),
where James Bonsack created the Bonsack
Cigarette Machine, patented in 1883 4
The community of Cave Spring was settled in
the early 19th century southwest of Roanoke,
off U.S. Route 221. The name came from its
large spring, which made this location a
popular camping place for Indians and later for
farmers hauling goods from Bent Mountain and
Franklin and Floyd Counties. By the 1850s,
with three stores and a blacksmith shop, Cave
Spring had become an important local trading
center. After the Civil War, the Richardson
3Roanoke Regional Preservation Office,
"Preliminary Information Form for Catawba
Rural Historic District;' (Roanoke: MS.,
January 1991), Section 6.
4~geY~ PP• 321-7.
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family ran a productive flour mill here and
assembled grain cradles. By 1885, Cave Hill
boasted three stores, three grist mills, and two
saw mills. The agrarian character of this
community disappeared between 1960 and 1980,
when Cave Hill became a suburban
development of Roanoke 5
The Hollins community, known in the 19th
century as Botetourt Springs, was a prosperous
agricultural area during the late 18th and early
19th century. Often called the North County,
this area is located in the northeast part of the
county, between the major north-south travel
route (now U.S. Route 11) and the east-west
Traders Road (now U. S. Route 460). Some of
the first settlements in the county occured here,
due to its strategic location along these early
travel arteries. Settlement began in the late
18th century, with the largest landowner being
Robert Breckenridge from Augusta County.
German settlers soon came along in the early
19th century. About 1820, Charles Johnston
began to promote visitation to Botetourt Springs
to experience their curing powers. Johnson
established a resort, including a hotel and
cottages, on the site of present-day Hollins
College. Several owners tried to keep the
resort business going after his death in 1833, but
the property was finally sold in 1839. That
same year, Charles' nephew, Edward Johnson,
established the Roanoke Female Seminary on
this site. 6
In 1871, Botetourt Springs boasted two stores, a
grist mill, cooper, physician, and four small
craft shops. The 1884 Gazateer listed a coach
and wagon builder, distiller, florist, and saw
mill, along with the flour mill. ~ Its female
seminary was renamed Hollins College in the
late 19th century after Lynchburg donors, and
continued to grow. Hollins College still
operates as a successful women's college. The
accessibility of the Hollins community to
modern transportation routes has continued its
development into a major commercial strip in
the late 20th century.8
S~geY~ PP~ 307-310.
6ICagey, pp. 333-342.
7~$eY~ PP~ 231-6.
BICagey, pp. 155-167.
Stazkey is a small village located along a
major east-west road, now U.S. Route 220,
heading southwest out of Roanoke. In the early
19th century, Lewis Harvey built an iron
furnace on the bank of Back Creek and mined
brown hematite ore. The small village was not
named until the Roanoke and Southern
Railroad came through in the early 1890s,
connecting to the Norfolk and Western
Railroad. A railroad station was built and
named after Taswell Stazkey, who owned most
of the property in this azea. A store,
stationmaster's house, and several residences
were constructed at that time. Starkey became
an important and very busy local shipping
center for area farmers from Back Creek, Cafe
Spring, and Bent Mountain in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. Farmers brought their
fruit to a barrel factory near the depot, where
it was packed and sent to nearby markets and to
Winston-Salem and other southern locations.
Starkey declined with the paving of the public
roads and improved market access to Roanoke 9
The town of Vinton had its beginnings as the
Gish's Mill. David Gish, one of many Germans
settling in Roanoke County after the
Revolutionary War, settled on Glade Creek,
east of Roanoke in 1795 and built two mills.
The hamlet that developed around these mills
was called Gish's Mill. Gish opened a general
store after the tracks of the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad were laid through the area
and the depot was established in 1852. By
1870, Gish's Mill also had a boot and shoe
maker and a harness maker. The 1884 Gazateer
reported the presence of three stores; three
flour mills, two of which had saw mills; two
tanners; and a stove and tinware manufacturer.
Gish's Mill boomed with the railroad, which
ran through its southern bounds. The
population grew from 96 in 1880 to 584 in 1884,
with many of these residents being workers
employed by the Norfolk and Western Shops
and the Crozier Furnace. In 1884, the town
incorporated as Vinton. Roanoke's growth
prompted speculation in Vinton, which by 1890
was linked with Roanoke by the steam
railroad. 10
9ICagey, pp. 310-1.
lOICagey, pp. 365-271.
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The village of Kingstown was established in
the 1870s by several former slaves who bought
land in the North County area along present
day Thirland Road, just outside the northern
boundary of Roanoke City. This black
community was named after Joe King, who
bought the largest tract of land, consisting of 19
acres. The settlement remained small in the
1870s and 1880s, with a few houses, one church,
a school and a store. The first church
congregation had separated from Enon Baptist
Church, located near Hollins College, in 1869 to
start a church near their homes. The original
church building, known as the Tabernacle,
burned in 1909 and was replaced that same year
by a new building and renamed the Ebenezer
Baptist Church.ii The one-room schoolhouse,
built in 1885 and in use until 1940, still stands.
A number of late 19th century dwellings
survive, interspersed with early 20th century
dwellings. Several of the original families
still have descendants living in the
community.l2
ii~gey~ pp, 375-6.
12Kagey, p. 378.
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SURVEY METHODOLOGY
BACKGROUND TO SURVEY
Roanoke County residents have long been
interested in the history of their community. In
the 1980s, two new histories were written about
the county and its architecture. In 1982, W. L.
Whitwell, Associate Professor of Art at
Hollins College, and Lee W. Winborne, a
resident of Roanoke, prepared one of the first
azchitectural studies of Roanoke county. Titled
The Architectural Heritage of the Roanoke
Valley' this book surveys the architecture of
the county and the cities of Roanoke and Salem,
ranging from agricultural buildings to city
storefronts. With the county's 150 year
celebration of its founding, the Roanoke County
Sesquicentennial Committee commissioned
Deedie Kagey to write a history of Roanoke
County, from its first settlement to the future.
This volume, entitled When Past is Prologue: A
HistorX of Roanoke County, published in 1988,
provided a valuable and complete history of
the county. This effort was underwritten and
marketed by the Sesquicentennial Committee.
Roanoke County's historic preservation efforts
were boosted by the establishment of two
important organizations in Roanoke. In
February 1989, the Virginia Department of
Historic Resources (VDHR) located its first
regional preservation office in Roanoke, staffed
by a director, architectural historian, and
archaeologist. The goal of the Roanoke
Regional Preservation Office (RRPO) is to
provide preservation services to aten-county
region in southwest Virginia, an area located
far from the Richmond VDHR office.
In March of 1988, local residents organized the
Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation to
encourage local preservation efforts within the
Valley. Throughout its history, this
organization has worked closely with the
Roanoke Regional Preservation Office. This
organization has participated in a variety of
preservation activities in Roanoke city,
including helping to purchase four historic
commercial buildings on Campbell Avenue, to
compile information for a National Register
nomination for Roanoke First Baptist Church
and to administer a grant from the National
Trust for Historic Preservation to fund a
Viewshed Analysis in the Bellmont-Monterey
Rural Historic District. This project led to a
long-range plan of the historic Tinker Creek
corridor which will identify recreational and
tourism opportunities.
In May 1990, the Roanoke Regional
Preservation Office and the RVPF proposed
that Roanoke County consider an architectural
survey of its historic properties. In their letter
to the Roanoke County Boazd of Supervisors,
these organizations listed their reasons for the
survey:
(1) Roanoke County had Only 76 properties
recorded in the VDHR's survey;
(2) An azchitectural survey of Roanoke County
would be a useful planning tool, leading to
objective evaluation of the significance of the
county properties and providing preservation
priorities to update the comprehensive plan.
(3) The survey would promote civic pride and
heritage education.
The County Board of Supervisors approved the
expenditure of up to $20,000 in cash and in-kind
services to be used to match grant funds by the
Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
The Board recognized that the survey
information would identify important
properties and provide guidance in planning for
their best use and protection. In late 1990, the
VDHR provided a $20,000 Survey and
Protection Award to match Roanoke County's
commitment to fund an architectural survey.
The Roanoke County Department of Planning
and Zoning administered the survey grant.
Jonathan Hartley, planner, served as the
project director. In January 1991, Roanoke
County contracted with Frazier Associates of
Staunton, Virginia to conduct the survey of
Roanoke County. Hartley organized a group of
local citizens who were interested in and
knowledgable about the county's historic
resources to serve on a Historic Preservation
Advisory Committee to provide direction and
oversight throughout the survey.
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SURVEY OBJECTIVES
The purpose of the grant project was to complete
the survey of Roanoke County, excluding the
Catawba Valley, which had been recently
surveyed by the RRPO. The survey area did not
include the present cities of Roanoke and Salem
or the town of Vinton. These two urban areas
were once part of the county and do contain
numerous significant resources for Roanoke
County history.
The objectives of the Roanoke County survey
were to:
(1) Complete individual survey reports for:
(a) All pre-Civil War buildings and
structures.
(b) Outstanding examples of cultural
resources built after 1861, to include
buildings, structures, site and
landscapes each of which should be
related to one or more of the DHR
historic themes.
(2) Complete intensive survey forms and
documentation of a representative range of
domestic interiors, to include floor plans, on
the DHR Intensive Survey Forms.
(3) To provide photographic coverage and an
intensive survey form for villages or
potential historic districts.
(4) To include U.S.G.S. map locations for all
sites
(5) (OPTIONAL) To identify all pre-1940
buildings on U.S.G.S. maps through map
code data.
At the commencement of the survey, the VDHR
had ten identified ten historic themes around
which the historic contexts and survey would
be organized -domestic, agriculture,
government/law/political, education,
military, religion, social,
transportation /communication,
industry/processing/extraction, and
commerce/trade. During the course of the
Roanoke County survey, the VDHR added
eight additional themes -- health
Gaze/medicine, recreation/arts, landscape,
funerary, ethnicity/immigration, settlement
patterns, architecture/landscape
architecture/community planning, and
technology /engineering.
SURVEY METHODS AND
RESEARCH DESIGN
Frazier Associates began the research phase of
the survey project by talking with members of
the Historic Preservation Advisory Committee
to gather appropriate research materials.
Deedie Kagey's new book on Roanoke County
history provided the basis for much of the
historical context. Additional research was
conducted at the Roanoke County and City
libraries, the Virginia State Library,
University of Virginia Library, and the county
courthouse in Salem. The completed historical
context discusses the history of Roanoke County
organized by the eighteen historic themes
outlined by VDHR.
Prior to beginning the survey, Frazier
Assoaates reviewed all the previous survey
reports compiled for Roanoke County. These
files included those compiled by the Virginia
Department of Historic Resources, housed in its
Richmond office and early survey forms and
reports prepared by the Works Progress
Administration (WPA) in the 1930s.
At the time, Roanoke County had only two
properties on the National Register, the
Hollins College Quadrangle and the Old
Tombstone (Denton Monument). By 1991, two
additional areas had been determined
National Register eligible -the Catawba
Rural Historic District and the Crystal Creek
Drive Historic District. Frazier Associates
reviewed both of the Preliminary Information
Requests filed by the Roanoke Regional
Preservation office for these areas. Within the
past year, the Harshbarger House has also
been determined eligible for the National
Register.
During the field work phase, Frazier
Associates' surveyors traveled throughout the
survey area, along every accessible highway,
road, and private driveway, to review and
identify all structures specified in the survey
objectives. This involved the United States
Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) quadrangle maps
of Bent Mountain, Catawba, Roanoke, Check,
Stewaztsville, Garden City, Hardy, Elliston,
Glenvar, and Salem.
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The surveyors recorded every structure that met
the established criteria on a VHDR-provided
survey form according to the reconnaissance
survey methodology recorded in the VDHR
Survey Guide. Since the new computerized
Integrated Preservation Software (IPS) form
had not been completed, Frazier Associates
utilized afive-page draft architectural survey
form provided by the VDHR. The intentions to
computerize the survey at the start did not
materialize due to the lag time in software
development and refinement. The surveyors
took two sets of photographs of each structure,
with one set for Roanoke County and one set for
the VDHR. All surveyed properties were
mapped according to VDHR standards. Frazier
Associates surveyed 410 properties at the
reconnaissance level.
When the reconnaissance survey had been
completed, Frazier Associates met with the
Historic Preservation Advisory Committee to
determine which properties should be surveyed
at an intensive level. The meeting participants
identified 31 properties. The intensive survey
of these properties included an interior
inspection and photographs and more complete
architectural description and analysis of the
property.
In the course of the survey, Frazier Associates
updated the VDHL survey for several
properties, primarily those that had been
recorded through the Historic American
Buildings Survey in the late 1950s. The survey
data from many of these files was sketchy and
out-dated. Frazier Associates took new
photographs and completed survey forms for
many of these properties. Several were later
selected for intensive survey, and have
received more thorough evaluation. Some of
these NABS-recorded properties are no longer
standing.
Frazier Associates identified other more recent
vernacular residences, up to ca. 1940, on the
U.S.G.S. quadrangle maps, as suggested by the
Roanoke County Planning Office. This mapping
process recorded 384 early-twentieth-century
properties, such as Bungalows, American
Foursquares, and other more recent vernacular
residences for future survey potential.
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SUMMARY OF SURVEY
FINDINGS
The Roanoke County survey recorded a total of
410 structures. Of these, 379 historic sites were
surveyed at the reconnaissance level and 31 at
the intensive level. Both types of survey
utilized the same draft form, an interim survey
form provided by the VDHR. The following
summary and analysis is limited to sites
involved in this survey, and excludes sites
already on the National Register of Historic
Places and those determined to be eligible,
including the Catawba Valley.
The most common building type documented in
the survey area is the single-family dwelling
(82%). Roanoke County's domestic architecture
is predominantly rural and vernacular,
reflecting its traditional agrarian culture
character. All other resource types are less
than 5% or less of the total surveyed structures,
including churches (5%), schools (3%), Hollins
campus structures (3%), stores (2%), and multi-
dwellings (1%). The "Other" category on the
buildings types table refers largely to bridges
and cemeteries, comprising 4% of the survey
data.
The county survey did not identify any resources
dating to the 18th century. Many of the homes
built by the first generations of settlers in this
area would have been small, not very
substantial wooden dwellings, and would have
been replaced by better houses as soon as
possible. Even in the earlier settled area of the
Catawba Valley, no 18th century structures
have yet been found.
The first wave of more permanent building
activity occurred during the early 19th century,
from which a small group of larger, more
pretentious dwellings survive in the survey
area. The survey recorded fifteen brick
dwellings with Federal style detailing, built
by some of the more wealthy landowners in
Roanoke County. Only a small number of log
hall-parlor houses survive from this period,
unlike the Catawba Valley, where the
majority of antebellum dwellings are of this
type.
More structures survive from the mid-19th
century, including 12% of the surveyed
resources. This period witnessed a prospering
agricultural economy and the initial
construction of the railroad through the county.
The majority of the surviving buildings are
brick central-passage dwellings built by more
affluent farmers, including a four stylish Greek
Revival farmhouses. Smaller houses begin to
survive in greater number, reflecting the
traditional hall-parlor plan still largely built
of logs.
The majority of the surveyed buildings date to
the late 19th and early 20th centuries, totalling
23% and 61% respectively. This period
witnessed a greater variety in house plans and
styles, from vernaculaz forms through popular
designs. The most common plans remained the
I-house and the two-room plan. By this period,
the I-house usually had a rear ell, from one to
two rooms, and often added decoration, such as
a front gable, more elaborate porch, and
sometimes other stylistic detail. Two-room
hall-parlor plans provided a smaller house
type, still constructed with logs but
increasingly of the frame construction. Another
plan type surviving from the mid-19th century
was the central passage/double pile houses,
sometimes decorated in the Greek Revival
style
The railroad boom of the turn-of-the-century
stimulated the construction of more stylish
houses, particularly in the cities of Salem and
Roanoke. Six examples of the Queen Anne and
15 of the Colonial Revival style were built in
the county. The influence of popular styles on
county architecture can be found more in the
decoration of vernacular forms, pazticularly I-
houses and a variety of small frame cottages .
Of the decorated I-houses surveyed, 38 had a
central gable and 12 had other types of applied
decoration. The survey recorded 13 small
"Victorian" cottages. The three-room "L"
shaped plan and the four-room 'T" plan,
popular during the first few decades of the 20th
century, reflected the increased interest in more
irregular massing.
From the early 20th century, Roanoke County
has a substantial heritage of Bungalows and
Foursquare houses. The survey recorded a
sample of twelve of each of these building
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types, selected because of their unusual
location, material, or size. Roanoke County
retains a significant group of early 20th century
rustic cabins, built as weekend or vacation
homes, and, occasionally, as permanent country
residences. These are most often of log
construction, sometimes stone, and reflect a
nostalgia for the 18th and 19th century
vernacular forms.
Overall, the county's forms remain quite
vernacular. By far the most common plan
surveyed in the county is the central
passage/single pile house, or I-house, which
comprise 131 dwellings or 32% of the surveyed
resources.
Frame construction was the most common
building technology documented in the survey,
associated with 62% of the structures. Of the
surveyed examples, most were covered with
historic cladding materials, including
weatherboarding (30%), German siding (10%)
or, to a lesser extent, board and batten (2%).
Many frame buildings have been covered with
recent siding materials, including artificial
siding (12%), asphalt shingles, (4%) or asbestos
(4%) shingles. The next most popular building
construction technique is log construction, with
18% of the surveyed structures. The majority of
the log structures are the early 20th century
weekend homes, with a smaller number being
19th century vernacular buildings. Masonry
structures comprise 18% of the surveyed
buildings, including 14% brick and 2% stone.
The brick houses date largely to the 19th
century, but many of the stone dwellings include
the rural weekend cabins built early in the 20th
century.
Most of Roanoke County's structures (59%) have
had minor exterior changes which do not
drastically alter the appearance of the
building. These changes include rear additions
and enclosed, remodeled, or replaced porches.
A smaller number (29%) of the buildings retain
their original form. Of the surveyed structures,
15% have experienced major alterations,
including heavily altered facades or large
additions to the front or the side. This last
category includes several older houses that
were later incorporated into a larger dwelling.
Many of the county's houses were built within a
farm complex. With increasing development
pressures and the decline in agricultural
productivity, few of these farm properties are
still be used for their original purposes.
Consequently, many farm buildings and
outbuildings have deteriorated or have been
razed. Good, intact collections of farm
outbuildings in Roanoke County are now rare.
Of the surviving farm buildings, barns are most
common, with 113 still standing. Other
building types remaining on county farms
include garages (73), spring houses (30),
smokehouses (16), pump houses (13), and
corncribs (13). Outbuildings that survive in
smaller numbers include tenant houses,
machinery buildings, detached kitchens, and a
few buildings speculated to have been slave
houses.
Most of the historic structures (48%) remain in a
rural setting. This includes numerous rustic
weekend and vacation homes that built in
scenic rural areas, situated on wooded lots in
picturesque hollows and along creek and river
beds. In recent years, new development, such as
widened highways, modern subdivisions, or
commercial development, has surrounded some
of the county's historic properties. Sometimes,
the farmland associated with an older farm
house has been sold for development, either
residential or commercial. Three percent of the
historic structures are now situated in modern
commercial districts. Twenty percent of the
other surveyed structures are in rural
neighborhoods consisting of small lots,
surrounded by similarly sized buildings. About
14% of the structures are in suburban
neighborhoods. The survey recorded 16
structures in the Hollins College neighborhood,
since there has been interest in expanding the
Hollins College Historic District.
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BUILDING TYPES TOTAL PERCENTAGE
Sin le dwelling 338 82
Multi dwelling 4 1
Store 9 2
School 10 3
Cam us 10 3
Church 21 5
Other 16 4
PERIODS OF CONSTRUCTION
Early nineteenth century
Mid nineteenth center 13
49 3
12
Late nineteenth century 94 23
Early twentieth center 249 61
Mid twentieth century 5 1
MATERIALS
Brick 59 14
Wood frame/weatherboard 123 30
Wood frame/artificial sidin 52 12
Wood frame/asphalt shingle 14 4
Wood frame/asbestos shingle 14 4
Wood frame/German siding 40 10
Stone 15 4
Board and Batten 8 2
Lo 77 18
Other 8 2
DEGREE OF CHANGES
Ori final 108 26
Minor changes 241 59
Major changes 61 15
OUTBUILDING TYPES
Barns 113 35
Smokehouses 16 5
Springhouses 30 9
Pum houses 13 4
Corncrib 13 4
Garage 73 ~
Other 67 21
SETTINGS
Rural 196 ~I8
Rustic 45 11
Rural nei hborhood 83 20
Neighborhood 57 14
Commercial 13 3
Campus 16 4
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HISTORIC CONTEXT AND
ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS
ETHNICITY/IMMIGRATION
Historic Context
At the time of European settlement, Native
Americans used the Roanoke Valley, and the
Great Valley of Virginia, primarily as a
hunting ground. Archaeological sites have been
documented in Roanoke County from the entire
span of human occupation in this Virginia
"subregion;' from Paleoindian times through
Archaeic and into the Woodland periods.
Native Americans would have been attracted
by the salt licks in the region, as well as by the
fertile land and the presence of deer and
buffalo. 13
The first permanent Indian settlement in the
Roanoke County area occurred during the late
Woodland Period (800 to 1650 AD), when
horticulture became an important part of
Native American culture. The Native
Americans in this region began to grow maize,
beans, squash, and other vegetables and to
establish semi-permanent villages of between
50 and 500 people. A number of late Woodland
sites have been recorded in Roanoke County,
the most significant being the Buzzard Rock
site, along the Roanoke River in Roanoke, and
the Thomas/Sawyers site, along the Dan
River. Early historical explorations report
encountering "Totero Town," a settlement
established by the Tutelo Indians, in a
presently-unidentified area near Roanoke,
possibly near Radford or in Patrick County.
Clearings within the present day Roanoke area
sugggest the presence of Native Americans,
probably providing forage for their herds.l4
The first European exploration into the
Roanoke County azea occurRed in 1671.
Governor Berkley asked Colonel Abraham
13Michael Barber,and Mattern and Craig, In,
"Cultural Resources Survey for Proposed
Widening and Realignment to 2nd
Street/Gainsboro road and Wells Avenue, City
of Ronaoke, Virginia," p. 9.
14Barber et al, pp.14-16, 18-19.
Wood, at Fort Henry, to explore the western
lands, marking the beginning of explorations
into western Virginia. In 1672, Colonel Wood
sent Thomas Batts, Robert Fallam, and Thomas
Wood from Fort Henry to explore to the south
and west. After five days, they reached "the
falls of the Roanoke at the junctions of the Dan
and the Staunton." 15 Evidence at the
Graham-White archaeological site in south
Salem uncovered numerous European trade
goods, ca. 1650-1670, suggesting that European
traders may have been through prior to 1671.16
The first permanent settlers in western Virginia
began to arrive in the 1720s, reaching the
Roanoke County area in the 1740s. Settlers
amved by trails, usually those used by the
Indians in their travel through western
Virginia, or sometimes along waterways,
including the Catawba Creek and the Roanoke
River. 17 Two major trails led into the Roanoke
area. The first led southwest from
Pennsylvania to the Yadkin Valley of North
Carolina, known as the Carolina Trail,; this
route follows approximately the location of
Routes 11 and 200. The second trail, running
east-west, was called the Great Road or the
Traders Path, parallel to present Route 460.18
The eazliest settlers to come to Roanoke County
were the Scots-Irish, or Ulster-Scots as they
were known in the 18th century.19 They left
Ireland, primarily the province of Ulster,
beginning in 1707, looking for greater economic,
political and religious freedoms in America.
The availability of free lands lured these
Ulster-Scots, who could only lease, but not buy,
land in their native Ireland. Approximately
250,000 Scots-Irish came to America during the
18th century. 20
15Bazber et al, p 18.
16Bazber et al, p. 16.
17W. L. Whitwell, and Lee W. Winborne, The
Architectural Heritage of the Roanoke Val
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press), p. ll.
18Barber et al, p. 22.
19lbid., p. 12.
20Tyler Blethen,and Curtis Wood, Jr. From
Ulster to Carolina. (Culowhee: Western
Carolina University, 1983), p. 15.
11
The Scots-Irish came first to Philadelphia,
settling inland in the southeastern region of
Pennsylvania. As land became less available
and more expensive, the Scots-Irish moved
further westward, coming down into the Great
Valley of Virginia. William Beverly
encouraged many Scots-Irish to settle in now-
Augusta County after he acquired his large
land grant in 1736. As land became available in
Roanoke County, beginning with the 1739
"Roanoke Grant" along the James and Roanoke
Rivers, settlers began to move into present-day
Roanoke County.
One of the purposes of these land grants, from
the perspective of the Virginia government,
was to create a barrier between the French and
Indians and the Tidewater settlements.
Consequently, land grants often carried
restrictions that the owners of each grant
cultivate three or more acres within three
years of receiving the tract. Another type of
land patent gave up to four hundred acres to a
settler who would build a cabin on the land and
grow any type of grain.21 Some of the earliest
land grants in Roanoke county included 300
acres in Catawba to James McAfee in 1740,150
acres along Carvin Creek to William Carvin in
1746, and 400 acres in present day Salem to
Flinloc (or Finla) McClure in 174622 The Scots-
Irish who settled in the Roanoke County area
during these early years cleared the denser
forested land and established small farms. 3
As more settlers moved into the area, a number
of Scotch-Irish sold their farmlands to Germans
and moved further west.
German immigration to American began in
greater numbers during the 18th century. These
immigrants came largely from the Rhineland-
Palatinate region of Germany, which, in the
18th century, included parts of Hesse, the
Alsace, and German-speaking Switzerland.
The Germans emigrants suffered from poor
economic conditions in the Palatinate, due to
21 Helen R.Prillaman, "A Place Apart: A Brief
History of the Early Williamson Road and
North Roanoke Valley," (Roanoke, Va., 1982),
p. 4.
22Kagey, p. 39.
23~gey~ p, 14.
continued wars and a depressed agricultural
economy. Many sought religious freedom as
well. German immigrants came in through the
port of Philadelphia, settling first in
southeastern Pennsylvania. Like the Scots-
Irish, they too began to move further west as
farm land became less available and more
expensive, traveling into the Great Valley of
Virginia.
The first German settlements in the Great
Valley of Virginia occured in the northern, or
upper part of the Valley, in Frederick, Page,
and Shenandoah Counties. Germans moved into
western Virginia in greater numbers after the
Revlutionary War, often taking over lands first
settled by Irish immigrants who were now
moving futher west. Germans often settled in
tight communities, where they spoke their
native language until well into the 19th
century. The Germans were often considered
excellent farmers, taking advantage of the
region's rich farmlands.
English settlers from Tidewater Virginia began
to move into the Roanoke Valley after the
Revolutionary War. Many of these
"gentlemen" farmers acquired large tracts of
land, including John Howard and Fleming
James in the Bonsack area, Edward Watts in
northern Roanoke County, George Tayloe in the
southeast part of present Roanoke city, and
Nathaniel Burwell in the present day city of
Salem.24
The Tidewater English gentry brought black
slaves with them to Roanoke County to
cultivate their new properties. George Tayloe,
a fifth generation Tidewater Virginian, had
settled in Roanoke County in the 1820s to run
the iron furnace his family owned at
Cloverdale. By 1830, he owned 136 slaves who
worked at the iron furnace. In the 1850s, Tayloe
had sixty slaves to farm his rich bottom land
24~gey~ p, 21.
12
SLAVE HOUSE
PLEASANT GROVE
(80-25)
4377 W. Main Street
13
along the Roanoke River. His ten slave
families lived in four slave houses in 1860.25
In 1838, Roanoke County's population was
approximately 5,000 people, of which 1,500
were black. By 1860, the county had 2,643
slaves, comprising 33%'0 of the county's total
population. The 155 freed blacks in the county
in 1860 worked primarily as tenant farmers or
field or mill laborers.26 After the Civil War
and with the arrival of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, many blacks moved into the
city of Roanoke for better paying jobs. Some
stayed in the rural areas, establishing small
black communities such as that at Kingstown.
Surveyed Resources
The vernacular architecture of western
Virginia displays a variety of ethnic building
forms and technologies associated with the
early settlers to the region. These ethnic
influences are strongest in the earlier settled
areas, particularly the northern Shenandoah
Valley.
The architecture of Roanoke County displays
Scots-Irish and German cultural influences. The
Scots-Irish traditions appear in the plan and
form of domestic buildings, particularly the
two-room, hall-parlor plan. No German or
continental European house plans were
indentified in the survey area. However, many
settlers, well into the 19th century, built with
log construction popular in continental Europe.
Other building forms attributed to German-
speaking peoples found in the county are the
rectangular outbuilding with the projecting
roofs and the double-pen log bank barn.
Since very little 18th century architecture
survives, it is difficult to document the strength
of these ethnic traditions in the first
generations of settlement. The surveyed
examples reveal which characteristics and
john Kern, "Black History in Soutwest
Virginia, 1790-1900," (Roanoke: Unpublished
manuscript, February 8,1992), pp. 7-8.
26"Our Colored People;' WPA Historical
Inventory. Federal Writers' Project, (Roanoke,
Va.: Stone Printing Company, 1941), p. 256.
building forms remained in the local vernacular
building vocabulary during the 19th century.
SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
Historical Context
The earliest settlements in the region occurred
along the major travel routes through in the
area. Since many settlers traveled south from
the Shenandoah Valley in the Roanoke
Valley, the northern part of the county was
settled first. The earliest settlements occurred
in the Hollins/Botetourt Springs area, along
the Carolina Road, and Catawba, along the
road to the New River Valley. The Catawba
Valley still retains the best collection of
antebellum buildings within the County. The
majority of the land owners in the Roanoke
Valley in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries owned tracts of two to
three hundred acres?~ As settlement spread
southward in the late 18th and early 19th
century, small crossroads communities, such as
Bonsack and Cave Spring evolved along the
major roads to provide services to the growing
population.
Antebellum crossroads communities typically
grew around mills or stores, often incorporating
churches, taverns, and a variety of crafts shops
such as blacksmiths, tinsmiths, and
cabinetmakers. The largest of these
settlements was Salem, which became
incorporated as a town and was recognized as
the county seat in 1838. Roanoke County's
predominantly rural settlement pattern, with
small crossroads communities, continued
through the antebellum period.
After the Civil War, small rural black
communities developed throughout western
Virginia. In Roanoke County, the community of
Kingstown was established by former slaves
who purchased small amounts of land. These
communities usually featured a church and
school and sometimes small merchantile
operations or craft shops.
The opening of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad in 1882 accelerated urbanization in
27Kagey, p. 21.
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Roanoke County. The railroad created more
jobs, some directly related to the railroad and
others due to increased accessibility to the
Roanoke region. In 1840, Roanoke had a
population of 5,499 residents, of whom 1,553
were slaves. By 1900, the county's population
had grown to 15,837.28
Several of the county's towns grew rapidly due
to the railroad, particularly Roanoke where
Norfolk and Western established its
headquarters and regional shops in 1882.
Salem's population grew from 612 in 1860 to
3,279 by 1890, but even this growth paled in
comparison to Roanoke city's boom. The
crossroads community of Gish's Iv;ill, located
along the railroad, grew from 96 in 1880 to 1,057
ten years later. Other settlements like Starkey
benefited from the improved transportation
links provided by the railroad, developing a
prosperous business in marketing orchard
products to lamer cities and urban
communities?
With its improved transportation networks,
Roanoke County continued to prosper
throughout the twentieth century. Agricultural
production remained a major source of income for
many, but this production declined as valuable
farmland was consumed by urban and suburban
development. After the Civil War, in 1870,
Roanoke farmers cultivated 74,788 acres of
improved farmlands. The amount of cultivated
land grew to 100,000 by 1950, and then began to
decline. By 1969, the farm acreage had
decreased to 47,236 acres, only 24% of the
county's land. Roanoke County's 69% decline in
the amount of farm land between 1950 and 1969
reflects astate-wide trend of 73% during that
same period. In 1985, the most productive
agricultural areas in the county were the
Catawba Valley, devoted to cattle and dairy
farming; the Bent Mountain area, with poultry,
orchards, and truck farming; and the Poage's
Mill area along Back Creek, with cattle, hay,
dairying and poultry.30
28~gey~ p, 297.
29~gey~ pp, 746-7.
30County of Roanoke, 'Roanoke County
Agricultural and Rural Community Analysis,"
(June,1985), pp.17-8.
Much of this loss of agricultural land has been
attributed to the growth of Roanoke and Salem,
which increased 68% between 1950 and 1969,
from 133,407 to 195,147 people. These cities
have annexed and developed land in the
central portion of the Roanoke Valley, where a
significant portion of the farmland was once
located. 31
Surveyed Resources
The earliest buildings recorded in the survey
area were generally located within the
northern part of the county and along the early
travel routes through the county. The majority
of these buildings were tied in with the
agricultural economy of the region throughout
the 19th century. The survey includes largely
farm complexes -houses, bazns, and
outbuildings -located near rivers and creeks
and on good farmland. In many cases, since
these complexes are no longer being used for
agriculture, the outbuildings and barns have
either been removed or have fallen into disuse.
Dwellings are discussed under the category of
Residential/Domestic and the farm buildings
and outbuildings under the Agriculture theme.
The survey documented many buildings within
the small county villages and communities.
The majority of the buildings surviving in these
communities are dwellings dating to the 19th
and 20th century. These rural communities
have now lost many of their commerce and
trade functions to the towns and cities, so the
buildings associated with these activities
have either been removed altered, or razed.
The most actively used public buildings within
these villages are churches, discussed under the
Religion theme. Although many of these towns
boomed with the railroad, no railroad depots
were found in the survey area..
RESIDENTIAL AND DOMESTIC
ARCHITECTURE
Historical Context
The majority of the domestic buildings in
Roanoke County were situated on farms or in
31~Roanoke County Agricultural and Rural
Community Analysis;' p. 4.
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small country villages. The early settlers drew
upon their familiar cultural heritage of
building forms and technology, establishing
vernacular forms which lasted, in some cases,
through the early 20th century.
As with other areas in western Virginia, the
earliest houses in Roanoke County were
relatively simple, one- or two-room houses,
reminiscent of those found in Ireland and
England. Of these, the most common was a
rectangular plan, one or one-and-a-half-stories
high, with an end chimney and central front
door. Vernacular architecture students often
associate this plan with the Scots-Irish, who
had been building houses with similar plans in
17th and 18th century Ulster. Unlike the stone
or turf construction found in Ireland, Scots-Irish
settlers adopted the log construction brought to
America and western Virginia by their
neighbors, German-speaking people from
central Europe. The resulting house becomes in
many ways a blend of old world traditions,
both British and German.
This form could be adapted into one and two
room plans. The two room version resembled
the hall-parlor plan found in Britain, with the
front door leading into the larger, heated
"hall;' or family living area. A door from the
hall led into the smaller "parlor," usually used
as a sleeping area for the parents. The interior
of the houses was entirely whitewashed,
creating an appearance similar to dwellings
found in both Ireland and Germany. A boxed in
staircase, usually in the corner, led to the loft,
which contained a storage area and sleeping
space for the children. This plan is so common
in the Appalachian region that that folklorist
Henry Glassie has called this the "typical
Southern mountain cabin."32
Roanoke County contains many examples of this
building type. In the county, these are
typically built of V-notched log construction,
with stone foundations and chimney, and
usually one- and-one-half stories high. Most
local examples were covered with siding,
32Henry Glassie, "The Types of the Southern
Mountain Cabin," Jan Van Brunvand ed., The
~y of American Folklore. (New York, NY:
W. W. Norton & Co.), pp. 328-370.
which was typical in western Virginia. Many
had interior sheathing covering the log
walls.33 Roanoke County examples range in
size from 10 feet by 15 feet to 21 feet by 28
feet.34 In the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, this plan continued to be popular for
small homes, but these were increasingly built
of frame construction. As family needs changed,
residents enlarged these houses through ells,
lean-tos, and front porches.35
By the middle of the nineteenth century, a new
form had become popular in Roanoke County -
the I-house. This plan type was so named by
geographer Fred Kniffen in the 1930s because
he first found the plan commonly in states
whose names began with I, such as Indiana,
Iowa, and Illinois.36 An "I-house" is a single
pile, two-story building, rectangular in shape,
typically with chimneys on each end or later
with chimneys on the inside walls. Its most
distinctive, and revolutionary, characteristic
was a central passage, which provided more
formal access to the rooms on each side. Many
of the earliest surviving I-houses are built of
masonry or log, but by the late 19th and early
20th century, most county I-houses were built of
frame construction. This I-house plan proved to
be the most common plan in the survey area,
with 131 examples recorded.
As the 19th century progressed, some prosperous
county residents built farmhouses with afull-
Georgian plan, adouble-pile central passage
plan with two rooms on each side. Most county
examples were two stories high. One of the
best examples of this plan in Roanoke County is
Buena Vista, built by George Tayloe, a wealthy
farmer and owner of the Cloverdale furnace, in
1859. Twenty-two examples of this double-
pile, central-passage plan were surveyed in the
study area.
The I-house, and later the double-pile central-
passage plan, provided a basic form to which
33Whitwell and Winborne, p. 14.
34Kagey, p. 50.
35Whitwell and Winborne, p. 15.
36Fred Kniffen, "Folk Housing: Key to
Diffusion;' Annuals of the Association of
American Geographers (Vol. 55, No. 4, Dec.
1965), pp. 549-577.
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the residents could add a variety of popular
features and stylistic detail. Additions were
often made in the form of an "ell," either one or
two rooms long, built off the back wall of the
house. The exterior of the I-house could be
adorned with a variety of stylistic features,
from Greek Revival porches to Gothic style
millwork. Pattern books showing the Greek
Revival style, readily available in rural areas
of Roanoke County after the Civil War, guided
the work of many local joiners, such as Gustavus
Sedon. Sedon's work on such properties as
Speedwell has been well-documented through
recent local research.37
Roanoke County prosperity during the late 19th
century, with the construction of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad and the establishment of
a flourishing agricultural economy, can be seen
in its architectural heritage. The county's
domestic architecture, and that of Salem and
Roanoke, began to -show the fruits of this
prosperity with a flurry of larger, more stylish
houses. Many of these illustrated the Queen
Ann style, with turrets, bays, Palladian and
leaded glass windows, wrap-around porches,
and complex roof forms.
The most stylish houses were built in the cities,
with rural builders adopting various elements
of popular styles, particularly in the form of
applied decoration. As the century progressed,
some residents began to decorate their I-houses
with Victorian features, such as central gables
or millwork under the eaves and along the
porch cornices. Still, the majority of the
county's domestic buildings remained
relatively conservative, often decorated tin the
Greek Revival style, for both exterior and
interior detailing, throughout the 19th century.
A variety of other architectural styles can be
found during the building boom of the early
20th century. The Colonial Revival style
became popular in the early 20th century in the
cities of Salem and Roanoke, where elaborate
examples of this style can still be found. This
style remained populaz among more modest-
sized dwellings throughout the 20th century.
Bungalows and American foursquare houses
became common throughout the city and the
37~gey~ p, 142.
county in the early 20th century. A few
examples of more unusual styles were built in
the 1920s, including the Tudor Revival and
Spanish Colonial.
Surveyed Resources: Antebellum
Period
The oldest dwellings that survive in the survey
area are a group of brick houses from the early
19th century. These are generally the more
substantial houses of their day, reflecting the
area's increasing agricultural prosperity by the
early 19th century.
Two-Room Plans: The earliest examples,
dating ca. 1820 through 1840, feature the
traditional two-room, hall-parlor plan. The
majority are two-story houses with Federal
detailing. Examples of this two-story form are
the Acres House (80-402) at 6621 Peters Creek
Road and the Green Richardson House (80-386)
at 3250 Randall Drive. Both retain a
substantial amount of interior woodwork,
including good examples of local Federal period
mantles.
Several dwellings from this period illustrate
other variations on the two-room plan. The
house at Mountain View Farm (80-556) at 4800
W. Main Street, ca. 1820-1840, provides an
unusual one-story example of the hall-parlor
plan. Although this house has been
considerably remodeled in the Colonial
Revival style during the 1920s, it still
maintains its original Federal mantels. The
Old Homeplace (80-12) at 6100 Plantation
Road features aside-passage plan within a
two-story brick shell, here with only two front
piercings, a door and a window. This dwelling
retains good examples of Federal mantels and
detailing, little altered with the later
additions to the house.
In western Virginia, the two-room plan was
more commonly built of log construction in the
early 19th century. Many examples of this two
room plan have been surveyed in the this
survey, as well as the Catawba Valley survey.
Two well-preserved examples were recorded
through intensive survey. The McCray House
(80-301) on 7184 Mill Road began as atwo-room,
hall-parlor plan house constructed ca. 1820-40.
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TWO-ROOM PLANS
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This two story structure features board
sheathing on the first floor and exposed log
walls on the second floor. The house survives
remarkably intact, with an excellent late
Federal/Greek Revival mantel. This log
structures is now the ell to a Victorian addition.
The second example is the Harris House (80-
294), ca. 1830 -1850, at 5403 Bent Mountain
Road, a rectangular two-story house with an
exterior brick chimney. In this case, the door is
off center in the two-bay facade, leading into
the smaller room, which contains the
stairwell. This house retains an excellent
Federal mantel, with free-standing pilasters
supporting projecting end blocks. In the late
19th century, this, too, was enlarged with a
two-story ell, added to the side of the house.
In some cases, these older log houses have been
enclosed by extensive additions, as at the Tate
House (80-471) at 3104 Harborwood Road. This
began as a two-story rectangular log house,
with a stone end chimney, but was later
enlarged into an "I-house" design in the late
19th century. Extensive interior alterations
disguise the original plan of the log portion,
which may have been either one or two rooms.
The survey recorded a few antebellum frame
examples of the two-room plan. The house at
7759 Poage Valley Road extension (80-289) is a
two-story, hall-parlor plan, with a three bay
facade and brick end chimney. The interior of
the first floor has now been opened up into one
room, but several original features remain,
including beaded board walls and ceiling and
Greek Revival door and window trim. This
house also retains some painted woodgraining
on the doors and the second floor mantel.
I-Houses (Central Passage/Single Pile): By the
1830s, the I-house had entered into the local
building vocabulary. The earliest surviving
examples in Roanoke County are five-bay brick
dwellings, with gable roofs, exterior end
chimneys, and often the molded brick cornice so
popular in western Virginia during the early
19th century. Most of the interior and exterior
detailing for these early I-houses is in the
Federal style. Speedwell (80-27) at 6135
Merriman Road is one of the best preserved
early examples of this plan, significant for its
well-preserved interior featuring Federal
mantels, stairwell, and other trim. Cedaz Bluff
(80-8) at 5408 Poor Mountain Road also retains
much of its original interior detailing,
although the walls of the house have been
studded out. Some local examples, such as the
Cook Residence (80151) at 4496 Bonsack Road,
ca. 1846, illustrate the basic Federal I-house
design, but have been heavily altered in the
interior over the course of their history.
By the 1850s, the I-house had become more
populaz, but was now decorated in the Greek
Revival style. Domestic exteriors began to
change, now often with stretcher bond
brickwork, hipped roofs, three-bay facades,
larger window openings, and sometimes a large,
decorative second-story window over the front
entrance. Chimneys moved inside to either the
exterior wall or along the passage walls. The
Huff House (80-15) at 5621 Plantation Road
provides an excellent local example of the
Greek Revival I-house. This dwelling, ca.
1855, features an intact sampling of eclectic
Greek Revival trim, from the mantels to the
eared door and window moldings, reflecting the
rural and often creative interpretations of the
popular styles. Dr. Gale's House (80-10) at 4909
Cave Spring Lane, ca. 1860-80, is another well-
preserved example, retaining most of its
original Greek Revival trim. The Gray-Flora
House (80-24), at 6113 Plantation Road, a third
example of this house design, features an
original two-room rear ell. Many of the
antebellum I-houses from the Shenandoah
Valley incorporated such ells into the plan at
the time of construction, providing a front
dining room and rear kitchen and work azea.
Double Pile/Central Passage Plan: By the mid-
19th century, the more full-scale version of the
I-house, the full double-pile central passage
plan, was built in Roanoke County. The survey
recorded several variations of this double-pile,
central passage plan. These were considered
some of the lazger houses of their time, and
were often built of brick construction. One of the
oldest examples of this plan, Belle Grove (80-
408), at 7223 Old Mountain Road, ca. 1854, was
reportedly built as a hotel. This is a five-bay
brick dwelling with exterior end chimneys.
Much of its exterior detailing, including the
molded brick cornice, jack arches over the
windows, and transom-lighted entrance reflect
the Federal style, The interior has been
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remodeled, but two mantels and some door and
window trim and original hardware remain.
Two other mid-19th century examples of the
double-pile plan, also of brick, illustrate local
vaziations on the plan and Greek Revival
decoration. Pleasant Grove (80-25) at 4377 W.
Main Street, ca. 1853, incorporates large pocket
doors between the rooms on one side of the
hallway, which open up the space between
these two rooms. The carpentry and joinery
work , including an original portico and all of
the surviving interior mantels and trim, were
made by Gustavus Sedon, a local joiner and
carpenter whose work can be found throughout
Roanoke County. Sedon drew much of his
inspiration from popular pattern books, and his
work has been recognized through recent
scholarship as some of the more stylish in the
county. A third local example of this double-
pile plan from the mid-19th century, the
Ninninger House (80-34) at 6113 Plantation
Road, dates ca. 1863. This dwelling features a
wide central hallway which is divided into an
entrance hall to the front and a room to the
back. The facade of the Ninninger House, like
others of its period, focuses on the central bay,
with an elaborate portico and three-part
second story window.
Surveyed Resources: Late 19th and
Early 20th Century
The late 19th and early 20th centuries
witnessed the continued popularity of the more
traditional local plans -- the I-house and the
two-room, rectangular house plan. As this
period progressed, more buildings reflecting
popular styles begin to appear throughout the
countryside, particularly in the small villages.
I-houses: Frame I-houses were built in
increased numbers and with greater variation
during the late 19th century. The majority of
examples from this period have three-bay
facades and gable roofs. The oldest examples
usually feature exterior brick chimneys on each
gable end, but by the turn-of-the-century
chimneys moved to the inside passage walls.
Many of the I-houses were built with original
ells, usually two-room plans with a front dining
room and reaz kitchen. One of the oldest and
best preserved frame I-houses from this period,
built ca. 1865-70, is the Gross House (80-429).
This dwelling still has good integrity,
retaining all original interior moldings in the
local Greek Revival style and its original
exterior brick end chimneys. A later example,
ca. 1890, at 5320 Spencer Road (80-295),
provides awell-preserved turn-of-the-century
example of the plain I-house design, still with
exterior gable end chimneys.
During the turn-of-the-20th century, many I-
houses were decorated with popular stylistic
features, the most common being a central front
gable and larger, more elaborate porches. The
survey recorded 38 examples with front gables.
Two good examples of this design include 4529
Bonsack Road (80-454), ca. 1890 -1920, and at
3727 Challenger Avenue (80-419), ca. 1890-1910,
which retains a high degree of integrity.
Porches become more ornate, ranging in style
from the Victorian to the Colonial Revival,
and increasingly wrap around the front and
sides of the house.
Applied decoration adorns twelve of the turn-
of-the-century I-houses. The house at 11082
Mountain Top Drive (80-495) features sawn
decoration in the front gable and the end gables
as well as a more unusual projecting bay window
in the center of the facade, over the front porch.
A central dormer window highlights the I-
house at 5470 Crumbpacker Drive (80-427),
with three-part windows in each gable end.
In the early 20th century, I-houses continued to
be one of the most popular houses types. Some
remained quite simple, such as the house at
8210 Martins Creek Road (80-303), ca. 1900-20;
others featured a gable as the only decoration,
as at 1602 W. Ruritan Road (80-425), ca. 1900.
Applied millwork decoration becomes less
common by this time, but some references to
style are occasionally found. At 6434
Plantation Road (80-414), constructed ca. 1900 -
1920, the entire central bay projects from the
facade, with the familiaz front gable at the
top.
Rectangular two-room plans: Many rectangular
log houses of varying sizes and heights survive
from the late 19th century. These aze generally
three-bay structures, of V-notched hewn logs,
with an exterior end chimney of brick or stone.
A few examples, such as 80-374, have a two-
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I-HOUSES
Top Photograph:
Gross House
(80-429)
2177 Mountain View
Drive
Middle Photograph:
Front Gable
(80-454)
4529 Bonsack Road
Bottom Photograph:
(80-495)
11082 Mountain Top
Road
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bay facade, eliminating the facade window on
the "parlor" end. The surveyed examples
illustrate three different variations in height.
Some, like 7819 Hemlock Avenue (80-346), are
one story in elevation, with a finished loft.
Others have a low second story created by
extending the logs walls from two to six logs
into the second level, such as 5512 Yellow
Mountain Road (80-606) or 5250 Old Virginia
Spring Road (80-374). Often, these houses
feature low second floor windows, or if not, full-
windows on the gable ends of the second floor.
The third variation contains a full second story,
illustrated by 4860 Glade Creek Road (80-462)
or 8149 Starlight Lane (80-344).
The size of the house plan varies. Some
examples, such as 80-346, are very small, and
may have originally had only one room. One-
roomhouses of this type were still being
constructed in the county in the late 19th and
early 20th century. Other houses, particularly
the two-story examples, exhibit proportions
and height more typical of other ,contemporary
dwellings, such as I-houses.
By the late 19th and early 20th century, this
rectangular two-room plan was often translated
into wood frame construction, creating a
relatively common and modest local house
type. Like the log examples, the rectangular
frame dwellings vary in size and in height.
Most are three-bay structures covered with
gable roofs, often with a front porch extending
the length of the facade. The frame examples
include a few one-story houses, but more
commonly, story-and-a-half dwellings.
The older examples of the one-room plan can
often be recognized by the presence of an
exterior stone chimney, such as 5581 Bradshaw
Road (80-441), built between 1880 and 1900. By
the turn-of-the-century, an interior stove flue
replaced the older chimney. A good example of
a later frame one-room house is 3731 Bradshaw
Road (80-536). Additions to these one-story
houses usually occurred in the form of a rear
shed lean-to, usually beginning as a one-room
kitchen.
The majority of the surveyed one-and-one-
half-story examples date to the turn-of-the-
century, from 1890 through 1920. Due to their
late construction date, they usually have a
stove flue, rather than a chimney, located most
often on an end wall or occasionally on the
inside wall. In several cases, the flue in the
front part of the house has been removed.
These houses often feature a rear ell instead of
a shed addition, no doubt more feasible with
the additional half-story elevation of the
front portion of the house. Examples of these
houses include 8442 Holly Tree Drive (80-364)
and 5654 Bandy Road (80-382). The location of
the stove flue along the central partition can be
seen at 2632 Bluff Road (80-447) and 5672 Poor
Mountain Road (80-510).
While the majority of these small one or one-
and-a-half story vernacular frame dwellings
illustrate the two-room, hall-parlor plan, a
few examples contain a central passage. The
house at 5860 Dry Hollow Road (80-209), ca.
1900 -1920, appeazs as a one-and-one-half-
story version of the familiar local I-house,
with interior brick flues along the central
partition walls. Like its larger contemporaries,
this also has atwo-room ell, rather than the
one-room ells found on most of the hall-parlor
plan houses of the same scale.
Another variation of the two-room plan, found
in Roanoke County as well as western Virginia,
is the rectangular two-room house plan, with
two-front doors. In most cases, as in Roanoke
County, these aze a full two stories in
elevation, usually built of frame construction,
and date from 1870 through 1920. Most have an
original one-room kitchen ell. The chimney
position varies with the age of the house. The
example at 3713 Whispering Lane (80-371), ca.
1870 - 80, with a single exterior end chimney,
bears a clear resemblance in floor plan to the
smaller hall-parlor houses with one heated
and one unheated room. Two later examples,
ca. 1890 -1910, feature an interior brick flue on
the central partition wall, including 6624
Franklin Road (80-380) and 5413 Indian Grave
Road (80-360). The decoration also varies,
with the house on Indian Grave Road boasting
the front gable found on many contemporary I-
houses and the Franklin Road house featuring a
three-bay Victorian porch.
Queen Anne: As the Roanoke azea prospered in
the late 19th century, more stylish homes were
often built. Most of these were constructed in
the cities of Salem and Roanoke and the town
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RECTANGULAR
TWO-ROOM PLANS
Log Construction
Top Photograph:
(80-606)
5512 Yellow Mountain Road
Middle Photograph:
(80-344)
8149 Starlight Lane
Bottom Photograph:
(80-374)
5250 Old Virginia
Spring Road
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RECTANGULAR
TWO-ROOM PLAN
Frame Construction
Top Photograph:
(80-441)
5581 Bradshaw Road
Bottom Photograph
(80-536)
3731 Bradshaw Road
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RECTANGULAR
TWO-ROOM
PLANS
Top photograph:
(80-382)
5654 Bandy Road
With rear ell
addition
Bottom photograph:
(80-371)
3173 Whispering Lane
Plan with two
front doors
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of Vinton, but six were surveyed in the county.
Windmere, at 5415 Plantation Road (80-417),
located near the east boundary of Roanoke
City, is one of the most stylish Queen Anne
dwellings survyed. Sawtooth bargeboards,
scrolled brackets, pointed and rounded arched
window hoods with keystones, and tall narrow
windows adorn this stylish brick shell. Built
ca. 1880 -1900, Windmere retains an
outstanding interior, with most of its original
trim and plan intact.
A more vernacular interpretation of the Queen
Anne style can be found at 5235 Poor Mountain
Road (80-481), a frame house built in Wabun ca.
1890 -1910. This house features an "L" shaped
plan with the main entrance in a projecting two
story tower, topped with a pyramidal roof.
Other decoration includes stained glass
windows, awrap-around porch, and a scrolled
arch over the front bay window.
In small villagessuch as Hollins and
throughout the countryside, smaller one-story
cottages illustrating elements of popular styles
were built during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. Some examples mirrored the popular
styles, but with a simpler form and more subtle
decoration. The house at 5866 Poor Mountain
Road resembles the Gothic cottages
popularized in the mid-19th century, with its
rectangular plan, central front gable, steeply
pitched roof, and board and batten siding. A
more vernacular version of this plan is the
cottage at 4539 Bonsack Road (80-619). This
slightly later example retains the front gable
and porch, but the house is covered with
weatherboarding. In many ways, this house
can also be interpreted as a one-story version of
the familiar I-house plan, with athree-bay
facade and chimneys moved to the interior
walls, as was popular during this time. The
one-story frame cottage at 6307 Pinetree Lane
(80-416) is a small-scale example example of
the Queen Anne style, with an irregular plan,
front bay window, tower over the front entry,
and awrap-around porch. A small house (80-
174) on the Hollins Campus appears as a
vernacular interpretation of the bungalow
cottage. Its three-bay facade is sheltered by a
projecting front porch and a shed dormer.
Irregular Vernacular Plans: By the late 19th
and eazly 20th century, several more irregular
plans had entered the local building
vocabulary. Although probably inspired by
popular styles, these plans aze also similar to
the familiar I-house plan. One common form
from the early 20th century is a 'T" shape plan
that is. closely related to the I-house with two-
room ell. Instead of a flush facade, the file of
rooms containing the ell projects out in front,
creating an "L" plan from the front. A porch,
usually in a Victorian or Colonial Revival
style, extends across the front of the hall and
side room, usually flush with the projecting "L"
part of the house on the facade. Most of these
are two-story frame houses, with interior brick
stove flues. Roanoke County examples include
7920 Franklin Road (80-365), ca. 1900-20; 8177
Wood Haven Road (80-431), ca. 1900-20; and
5071 Cove Road (80-430), ca. 1890 -1910. Most
of these examples are quite simple, with a few
occasional decorative touches, such as the low,
pointed arches over the front windows at 4738
Glade Creek Road (80-464). The guest house at
Hollins College (80-477) illustrates aone-and-
one-half story version of this plan.
One feature found on several late 19th and
early 20th century houses is a two-story gallery
porch. These porches most often appeaz along
the facade, but sometimes, when the main
entrance is reoriented, as at 7429 Moonlight
Lane (80-302), they are now on side walls. Two
good examples of late 19th century gallery
porches include the Harris House (80-294) and
Bellvue Farm (80-292) at 5648 Roselawn Road.
Such porches continue into the 20th century,
such as the bungalow style porch added to 6973
Bent Mountain Road (80-298) or the Colonial
Revival porch added to 6981 Bent Mountain
Road (80-297) around 1930-1950.
Surveyed Resources: Twentieth
Century
By the 1920s, a variety of other more popular
house designs were becoming common in
Roanoke County. Many of these had been
popular in cities, but gradually moved into the
surrounding countryside. Bungalows and
Foursquare houses became very common, with a
scattering of other revival styles.
Foursquare: Foursquare houses are typically
defined by asquare-shape, two-story
32
QUEEN ANNE
HOUSES
Top Photograph:
WINDMERE
(80-417)
5415 Plantation Road
Bottom Photograph:
(80-416)
6307 Pinetree Lane
33
"L" AND "T"
SHAPED
HOUSES
Top Photograph:
(80-365)
7920 Franklin Road
Bottom Photograph:
(80-430)
5071 Cove Road
34
FOURSQUARE
HOUSES
Top Photograph:
(80-388)
3371 Randall Drive
Bottom Photograph:
(80-335)
7112 Dawnwood P.oad
4,
35
elevation, and a hipped or pyramidal roof.
One of the more classic examples of the
Foursquare house in the county is 3371 Randall
Drive (80-388), built ca. 1920 to 1940. The
hipped dormer and wide front porch with
attached porte cochere are familiar features to
this design. Another excellent example is 4143
West Main Street (80-212), ca. 1928, a frame
house with a Colonial Revival wraparound
porch. Other Roanoke County exmples are more
vernacular in character, such as 7112
Dawnwood Road (80-335), which appears more
as a frame double-pile, central passage plan
with front gable and pyramidal roof.
Two of these Foursquare houses, the Gray House
and the Pines, reflect elements of the
Craftsman style. Constructed around 1891, the
Gray House at 6615 Peters Creek Road (80-401)
is a large American foursquare plan with
Craftsman style detailing. Both the exterior
and the interior survive with few alterations,
retaining much of their original integrity. The
interior is particularly significant and well-
preserved, retaining ornate fireplaces and
stairwells. The Pines at 3280 Bradshaw Road
(80-533), built in the 1920s, features shingled
siding, exposed rafters, and its original front
porch. The interior features include a coffered
ceiling with cross beams and a segmental
arched alcove. The house is situated in a rustic,
wooded setting with shingled outbuildings and
stone entry gates.
Bungalows: The bungalow plan proved popular
for smaller, more modest houses in the early
20th century. Bungalows, typically one-and-
one-half stories high, were relatively
inexpensive to build but still incorporated the
open planning and modern conveniences of the
early 20th century home. Bungalows feature a
variety of building materials, often using stone
or brick for decorative features and elements,
including porch columns. One of the most
distinctive features of the Bungalow style may
bea roof which projects beyond the main block
out of the house to encompass a front porch.
Dormer windows, either gabled, hipped, or
sometimes shed dormers, project through the
front roof to provide light for the second level.
Roanoke County bungalows illustrate various
features and combinations of building materials
associated with the classic bungalow designs.
Several local examples are constructed
primarily of brick, including 5812 Viewpoint
Avenue (80-555), 4002 Alleghany Drive (80-
546), and 3977 Old Catawba Road (80-592).
The bungalow at 3324 Bennett Springs Road (80-
531) features stone construction, with a wide
shed dormer. Log construction distinguishes the
unusually large bungalow at 8031 Williamson
Road (80-190), which includes an exterior stone
chimney, two lazge front gable dormers, and
simple eave brackets. Several good examples
of 1920s frame bungalows can be found at 4484
Yellow Mountain Road (80-608) and at 1909
Mountain View Road (80-596). Both are well-
preserved and have been altered very little.
A few county houses reflect characteristics of
the bungalow style without the more typical
form. For example, the small wooden house at
3608 Old Catawba Road (80-535), ca. 1900-20,
features agambrel-roofed front gable above a
full porch. In scale, this house is similar to
other local bungalows, although it does not
have the more typical gable roof.
Colonial Revival: Large Colonial Revival
houses are unusual in the county, possibly due to
the annexation of county property to Roanoke
City and the expansion of Salem and Vinton.
South Roanoke City has a large collection of
Colonial Revival houses. The large Colonial
Revival house at 1911 Mountain View Road
(80-595) formed part of a large scale,
twentieth-century rural estate, one of the few
surveyed in Roanoke County. A full, two-story
portico adorns the lazge five bay brick house,
with porches on one side and aone-story wing
on the other. The house features a very deep
plan, but interior inspection was not permitted
to record the room arrangement. This site
retains its rural integrity with large boxwood
landscaping in the front yazd and the collection
of earlier farm buildings behind the house and
in the surrounding fields.
Other large scale Colonial Revival residences
in the county are clustered on the Hollins
College campus. The largest and only brick
dwelling in this grouping is Eastnor (80-175),
originally the president's house. Constructed in
1929, this five-bay dwelling suggests the
double-pile, central passage form, with
Colonial Revival detailing. Melvern Hill (80-
176), located west of Eastnor, is a more ornate,
36
BUNGALOWS
Top Photograph:
(80-555)
5812 Viewpoint Avenue
Bottom Photograph:
(80-596)
1909 Mountain View Road
37
COLONIAL REVIVAL
Top Photograph:
(80-595)
1911 Mountain View Road
Bottom Photograph:
MELVERN HILL
(80-176)
Hollins College Campus
38
TUDOR REVIVAL
(80-377)
5122 Old Virginia Spring Road
39
frame Colonial Revival dwelling with a
projecting front entrance and dormer windows on
the third floor. Maison Francaise (80-181) also
features the three large dormer windows along
with a segmental arched entry hood supported
by scrolled brackets.
Other Styles: Roanoke County contains a few
houses with other popular styles in the 20th
century. One of the most noteworthy is a large
Tudor Revival house situated at 5122 Old
Virginia Spring Road (80-377), built ca. 1920 -
1940. The scale and sophistication of this
dwelling is unlike other contemporary houses in
the county. The house is built of stone and half-
timbered frame construction in an irregular
plan, with a variety of porches and other
projections. It remains intact its rustic setting.
An unusual example of the Spanish Colonial
style survives at 4857 Poor Mountain Road (80-
575). Built ca. 1920 - 1940, this small frame and
stuccoed house features a more vernacular
gable-entry plan, with a Spanish Revival
porch and original mantles in the Spanish
theme.
Recreational Cottages: One of the county's most
important collections of early twentieth
century dwellings are the small recreational
cottages built in rustic settings, along creeks and
rivers. These are described under the theme
Recreation /Arts.
AGRICULTURE
Historic Context
With its fertile soil and numerous natural
water ways, Roanoke County's farmland is well
suited to crop production, pasture, and grazing.
Most of the first settlers were farmers, who
took lands along the various water ways
throughout the County. By 1770, the leading
agricultural products grown in the area were
hemp, wheat, and corn, with smaller amounts
of hay, oats, barley, and beans. Hemp was a
popular cash crop by the late 18th century and
was used for making rope to caulk vessels and
for producing cloth for bagging and sails.38
38Kagey, p. 64.
Many grist mills were established throughout
the area to process the wheat into flour, which
was then marketed both within and outside the
state. Small communities grew around these
grist mills, which often included saw mills and
sometimes fulling mills. In addition to these
crops, area farmers raised livestock,
particularly cattle, horses, and pigs, which
were marketed in eastern cities. 39
Like the Shenandoah Valley, known as the
"bread basket of the Confederacy" due to its
large production of wheat by 1860, Roanoke
County farmers grew wheat as one of the their
major cash crops throughout the first half of
the 19th century. In 1850,104,134 bushels of
wheat were grown in the county, increasing to
175,043 ten years later. The agricultural census
of 18601ists other major agricultural products as
Indian corn (152,803 bushels) and oats (81,813
bushels).40
The most significant new cash crop in the 19th
century was tobacco, which quickly became one
of the major crops in the county. Between 1850
and 1860, county production increased from
362,682 to 935,341 pounds. By 1860, half of the
local farms were growing at least a small
amount of tobacco. 41 Three tobacco warehouses
were constructed in the Big Lick area in the
1850s, and tobacco processing soon became a
leading business. Between 1872 and 1882 there
were five thriving tobacco warehouses in Big
Lick, collecting tobacco both locally and from
other parts of Virginia.42
Roanoke County's agricultural productivity
increased throughout the antebellum period.
Prosperous farmers established large
plantations along the flood plains of the
Roanoke River during the three decades before
the Civil War, featuring a mixed production of
wheat, corn, and hogs. Many of the County's
earliest farm buildings and farm groupings
survive from this period, reflecting the first
39Kagey, p. 64.
40U.S. Census, Agriculture, Seventh and Eighth
Schedules, 1850, 1860.
41~gey~ p, 129.
~Kagey, p. 64; "Our Colored People" Y1~ A_
Historical Inventory, p. 258.
40
waves of more permanent building
construction.43
The surviving farm buildings from the
antebellum period are largely built of V-
notched logs. Log construction was known by the
German speaking people who settled in western
Virginia and this technique soon became one of
the most popular building technologies of the
region. The majority of these antebellum farm
buildings survive in the Catawba region, and
include single-pen barns and double-pen barns,
some of which illustrate the bank barn form
found throughout Pennsylvania and the Valley
of Virginia. In the survey area, few farm
buildings survive from the antebellum period,
including corn cribs, spring houses, and a few
smoke houses.
Roanoke County prospered after the Civil War.
The amount of improved farmland increased
from 58,306 acres in 1860 to 69,553 acres in 1870.
According to the 1870 and 1880 censuses,
Roanoke County's leading crops included
wheat, tobacco, and Indian corn. In 1870,
Roanoke County was one of the leading counties
for livestock production, with a value of
$301,285 in 1870. The majority of these animals
were swine, counted at 7,344 animals. 44
By 1870, orchard products had become a major
agricultural product in Roanoke County,
growing from a value of $628 in 1860 to $21,165
in 1870. Jordan Woodrum had discovered that
he could successfully grow apples in the Bent
Mountain area. Other farmers in that
community were encouraged by his success,
marketing their produce through the packing
plant at Starkey. Apples became an important
crop in that part of the county until around
1960, when much of the orchard land was
developed into modern housing subdivisions. `~
The majority of farm buildings and related
outbuildings surviving in the survey area date
to the late 19th or 20th centuries. Agricultural
buildings tended to be more conservative in
43Kagey, p. 64.
`~U.S. Census, Agricultural, Ninth and Tenth
Census Schedules.
4'Kagey, p. 302; U.S. Census, Agriculture, Eight
and Ninth Census Schedules.
nature, often preserving traditional plans and
building technologies. Log outbuildings survive
from these years, but frame construction
gradually becomes more populaz. In contrast to
the Shenandoah Valley, very few bank barns
were recorded in the survey area. The most
typical barn type was a flat barn, with lower-
level cattle housing and upper level hay
storage.
Although some farmers and tenant farmers
were enticed by the better wages of industrial
jobs in the cities, farming still remained the
main source of income at the turn of the
twentieth century in Roanoke County.
Improved transportation, refrigeration, and the
growth of urban azeas and markets encouraged
many Roanoke County farmers to turn to truck
farming and dairying. The size of the county
farms decreased during the late 19th and eazly
20th century, as fazmers divided their lands
into smaller tracts, which they rented to
tenants. The smaller tracts, often between
twenty to forty acres, were often intensively
cultivated by tenants as truck farms. 46 Area
farmers raised lettuce, cantaloupes,
watermelon, beans, cabbages and tomatoes. The
Bent Mountain community was known for
producing considerable amounts of poultry, eggs,
and cabbage.47 More Roanoke County farmers
turned to dairy farming by the early 20th
century, as the growing cities became dependent
on the countryside for fresh milk, cream, and
butter. Roanoke County farms produced large
amounts of butter throughout the 19th century,
and these figures continued to increase into the
20th century. `~
Orchard production grew in the early 20th
century with better access to wider markets.
Roanoke was among the top ten apple and
peach producing counties in Virginia during the
1920s and 1930s, ranking eighth in peach
production and ninth in apple production.
Apples were still the main crop of Bent
Mountain, but they were also now grown in the
Back Creek and Bonsack acees. Bonsack, Cave
Spring, and Back Creek contained the majority
~Kagey, p. 401.
47Kagey, p. 302.
`~Kagey, p. 439-440.
41
of the peach orchards. 49 County farmers also
grew pears, gra~es, raspberries, plums and
strawberries. 5
Agriculture began to decline with the urban
development of Roanoke and Salem, which
accelerated after 1950. In 1970, Roanoke County
had only half as many farms as in 1960. Large
amounts of farmland were annexed into the
cities of Roanoke and Salem and the town of
Vinton. By 1982, Roanoke County contained 306
farms, averaging 109 acres each. The major
agricultural pursuits in county today are
poultry, dairy farming, beef cattle, and nursery
products 51
Surveyed Resources
With the rapid development of Roanoke
County during the 20th century, much of its
agricultural legacy has been lost, including the
full complement of farm buildings and
outbuildings that would be found in a rural
community. The oldest and largest
concentration of agricultural buildings survives
in the Catawba Valley, which was not
included in this survey. In the remainder of
Roanoke County, development has taken over
much of the flatter land, which was
predominantly farmland in the 19th century,
obliterating many of the farm buildings. The
small numbers of surviving buildings makes
their preservation more important, especially
since many are no longer in use.
Barns are the most common agricultural
building type to survive in Roanoke County,
with 113 recorded in the survey area.
Throughout the 19th century, log construction
was most common. The majority of early to
mid-19th century barns remain in the Catawba
Valley, with both single-pen and double-pen
plans. The largest barns followed the double-
pen plan, with square log pens flanking a
central threshing floor and work area. Over a
dozen double-pen log barns survive in Catawba
Valley, one of the oldest being the Doosing-
McNeil Farm (80-112) which dates to the
1820s. The double-pen log barn at 5631 Bandy
49Kagey, p. 511.
50Kagey, p. 440.
51Kagey, p. 511, 541.
Road (80-378), constructed ca. 1900-20, is a rare
example of that plan in the present survey
area, which contains far fewer 19th century
barns.
The Bandy barn, and many of the Catawba
examples, are flat barns, but several of the
Catawba's early log barns incorporate the
double-pen plan into a bank barn form. This
allows for animal housing in the lower level
and hay mows, granaries, and a threshing area
above. Within the remainder of the county,
numerous bank barns were recorded, dating
largely from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. Good examples of this building type
include those at 6853 Poage Valley Road (80-
337), ca. 1900-20, and the Saul Farm (80-616).
Other types of fazm buildings survive in lesser
numbers in the survey area. The second largest
number of surviving agricultural buildings were
corncribs, of which 13 were surveyed. As in
Catawba, the earliest farm buildings are
usually built of log construction, but by the
early 20th century, frame farm buildings
covered with board siding became more
popular. These buildings follow the patterns
found in the Shenandoah Valley.
Many agricultural buildings have been
abandoned and altered over the years, which
complicates documentation of their original
use. The log storage building constructed at 5661
Roselawn Road (80-293), which dates to the
mid-19th century, is a one-story structure with
exposed rafters, a small side window, and an
off-center front entrance. Amore unusual
unidentified log structure is an outbuilding at
6113 Plantation Road (80-24), with an extended
gable roof form, a shed dormer on each side, and
steps leading to an attic story. One of the more
unusual farm buildings was a farm store at
11082 Mountain top Drive (80-495), built
between 1880 and 1910. This one-story building
has a one room plan with the entrance in the
front gable. It is the only identified individual
farm store found in the county.
The domestic outbuildings recorded in the
survey reflect the general patterns found
throughout western Virginia. The oldest
surviving examples are generally of log, stone,
or sometimes brick construction, but of these log
was probably most common. Many of the one-
42
BARNS
Top and Center
Photographs:
Double-Pen Log Barn
(80-378)
5631 Bandy Road
Bottom Photograph:
(80-337)
6853 Poage Valley Road
43
room structures feature a gable end entrance,
often sheltered by a roof that projects out over
the entrance. This outbuilding form comes from
central Europe and can be found throughout the
southern Appalachian region.
Of domestic outbuildings, springhouses
comprise the largest number, with 30 recorded
in the survey. The older examples are log,
brick, or stone construction, as was the case
throughout western Virginia. A log example
ca.1830-50 survives at 2148 Mountain View
Road. This has a front gable entrance, with a
short batten door, and wide boards under the
eaves. Other older springhouses include a brick
and a stone springhouse at Bellvue Farm, 5648
Roselawn Road (80-292). A later stone example
remains at 3104 Harborwood Road (80-471),
built between 1900-20. This is a one-room, one-
story structure constructed of coursed rubble
stone with a front overhanging roof supported
by square posts.
Sixteen smokehouses were documented in the
survey. One of the oldest is a log structure at
5408 Poor Mountain road (80-8). This is a one-
story, one-room building with V-notching,
covered with a gable roof that extends over the
front entrance. An unusual gable-roofed form on
the top of the smokehouse protects the farm
bell.
In the 18th and 19th century, many farms
featured detached kitchens. These buildings
often served a variety of functions, including
cooking, soap making, butchering, and other
work activities that required large fires. In
western Virginia, these were usually
rectangular, one-room plan structures, often
built of V-notched logs, with an end chimney
and a door in the long wall. The Roanoke
County survey documented two good examples
of these kitchens. The first, at 8439 Martins
Creek Road (80-305) is one-and-one-half stories
high and features open spaces between the floor
and ceiling joists for ventilation. The older
kitchen at 9809 Tinsley Lane (80-324) is one-
story with a large brick end chimney.
One fruit-drying building was recorded during
the survey. Such structures have been found in
Pennsylvania, and a very few have been
surveyed n the Shenandoah Valley. The
Roanoke County example was constructed at an
orchard farm at 7184 Old Mill Road between
1890 and 1910. This farm is located in the
southwest part of the county, a popular area for
apple orchards around the turn-of-the-20th
century. The drying house is a one-room, one-
story structure with five course American bond
brickwork. The front gable roof projects over
the front of the structure, in typical local
outbuilding form, sheltering the batten door.
The building has weatherboarded eaves and
openings between the exposed rafters to allow
for air circulation.
Several historic properties in the county have
significant collections of early outbuildings.
These properties include Speedwell at 6135
Merriman Road (80-27), the Green Richardson
Home at 3250 Randall Drive (80-386), the Huff
House at 5621 Plantation Road (80-15),
Pleasant Grove at 4377 W. Main Street (80-25),
the Brubaker House at 1745 Loch Haven Drive
(80-5), and the Harris Property at 5403 Bent
Mountain Road (80-294).
Speedwell, finished around 1831, has a nice
collection of domestic and farm buildings,
grouped together on the northwest side of the
main house. Close to the house, on the south
side of the driveway, is a one-story, one-room,
brick outbuilding that appears to have
originally been a kitchen and may have been
built at the same time as the house. West of
this structure is a large, late-nineteenth-
century large frame barn with vertical board
siding and a shed addition on both sides. A
mid-nineteenth-century one-story, log
outbuilding (possibly a corncrib) next to the
barn has afront-gable roof, a batten door, and a
smaller door to the loft. Across the driveway
from these structures is a one-story, two-room,
brick house (ca. 1830), with a tall interior,
brick chimney and a later addition.
The Green Richardson Home dates from the
same time period as Speedwell. The property
contains two barns and a kitchen. The large,
late-nineteenth-century, bank barn located
northeast of the main house, has vertical
siding with a large double-door entrance into
the side gable. A smaller barn, constructed
south of the larger one, has vertical siding and
a gable-end, shed-roofed addition. A detached
kitchen, which is contemporary with the
house, is located on the north side of the house.
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SPRINGHOUSES AND
SMOKEHOUSES
Top Photograph
Brick Springhouse
(80-292)
5648 Roselawn Avenue
Bottom Photograph
Log Smokehouse
(80-8)
5408 Poor Mountain Road
45
DRYING
HOUSE
McCRAY FARM
(80-301)
7184 Mill Road
46
The two one-story brick outbuildings on the
Huff Farm are rare survivals for Roanoke
County. The structure located east of the main
house appears to have been a smokehouse.
Northwest of the smokehouse and near the
main house is a building that was probably
used for a kitchen.
Pleasant Grove, which dates from around 1853,
contains a particularly significant cluster of
contemporary outbuildings which survive in
excellent condition, including a springhouse, a
slave quarters, and a smokehouse. The
springhouse has a projecting front gable, in
familiar form, sheltering two, and front
entrances framed by molded trim with corner
blocks, similar to that found on the house. The
building that may have been a slave quarters is
west of the springhouse. This illustrates a form
commonly found in the surviving slave houses in
Virginia. It is a rectangular, two-room plan,
with a separate front door into each room and a
chimney on each end. North of the springhouse
is a large two-story brick structure believed to
be a smokehouse, with slit ventilator, on the
second level of all four sides. An early-
twentieth-century brick garage stands south of
the springhouse.
The Brubaker Farm, with a ca. 1850-70 house,
has several early agricultural outbuildings.
The two barns, dating to the late 19th century,
are double-crib frame barns covered with
vertical siding. Four, early-twentieth-century
chicken houses were built behind the barns.
One of these structures has a concrete
foundation, and the others are supported with
brick piers. They all have vertical board
siding and metal shed roofs. A large, frame
springhouse and woodshed, built behind the
main residence, appear to date to the
construction period of the house. Both of these
buildings have extended front gable roofs with
weatherboarded eaves. The woodshed has
wide board siding and the springhouse is
covered with weatherboard. Further west, in
the same field is a smaller, early-twentieth-
century, vertical boarded springhouse with a
metal gable roof. An unusual metal frame
windmill was installed near the house. It is
the only windmill found during the survey.
The Harris Farm was built during the same
time period as the Brubaker Farm. The
extensive collection of outbuildings on this
property appears to be contemporary to the
house. The eight outbuildings include a
springhouse, a washhouse, a corncrib, two
chicken houses, a smokehouse, a stable, and a
storage shed. All of the outbuildings, which
are located on the hillside surrounding the
house, are small scale, frame structures with
metal, gable roofs, except for the springhouse,
which is constructed of logs. The washhouse,
chicken houses, and stable have vertical-board
siding and stone foundations, and the remaining
structures have weatherboard siding. The
smokehouse has an unusual, exposed cross-
bracing under the front gable. This property
contains the most extensive collection of frame
outbuildings found in Roanoke County.
GOVERNMENT/LAW/POLITICAL
Historical Context
The land in present-day Roanoke County was
originally part of Orange County, which
included territory east of the Blue Ridge
Mountains to the Mississippi River. In 1738,
the General Assembly created Augusta County,
incorporating the part of Orange County west of
the Blue Ridge. Augusta County's rapid growth
in population led to the establishment of
Botetourt County in 1770. Botetourt County's
boundaries extended westwazd to the
Mississippi River and northward to the Great
Lakes area, excluding the states of Kentucky
and West Virginia. The azea of the county that
was located in Virginia included the present
counties of Botetourt, Rockbridge, Montgomery,
Bath, Alleghany, Craig, and Roanoke. 2
Beginning in 1829, the residents in present-day
Roanoke County submitted several petitions to
the General Assembly which led to the forming
of Roanoke County. In 1838, the General
Assembly passed an act to create Roanoke
County. This act permitted the county to send
one delegate to the lower house, but Roanoke
County remained Botetourt's Senatorial,
congressional, and electoral district until
1842 53
52Kagey, p. 36.
53~gey~ p, 104.
47
Salem became the county seat for Roanoke
County. The County's first courthouse was built
in an early classical revival style. This
building was demolished in 1908, because of
extensive moisture damage in the walls and
floors, and replaced in 1910 by a neoclassical
building.
The county courthouse contained the office of
the justice of the peace, who was appointed by
the governor and charged with holding
monthly court sessions. Selection of the justice
was based on the person's family connections,
business success, education, and rnmmunity
respect. The justice of the peace would decide
who would run for the General Assembly; the
General Assembly chose the Governor; and the
Governor commissioned the new justice of the
peace, who was chosen by the sitting justices.
This process insured immense political control
for these few individuals 54
At the time that Roanoke County was
established, the county courts had many
functions, which were largely executive,
legislative, and judicial. Roanoke County held
monthly courts for local issues and quarterly
courts for capital and criminal cases. The
county court's responsibilities included licensing
merchants, setting rates for inns, devising
education and welfare systems, establishing
road systems, and settling property disputes 55
In 1838, Roanoke County was divided into four
districts -- Big Lick, Cave Spring, Catawba,
and Salem. Each district had four
representatives who supervised the election of
overseers of the poor, commissioners to lay off
public roads, and commissioners to select a
model for the new courthouse 56
The county's boundaries changed during the
mid-19th century. In 1849, Roanoke County
acquired part of Montgomery County to the
southwest. Two years later, Roanoke lost part
of its land when Craig County was created from
Roanoke, Giles, and Monroe counties 57
54~gey~ p, 105.
55Kagey, p. 105.
56Kagey, p. 106.
57Kagey, p. 175.
During the reconstruction period, the structure
of county government changed. In 1870, the
county was governed by an elected Board of
Supervisors, the governing body which
continues to direct county government to this
day. The Board of Supervisors made decisions
about the spending of munty funds and
supervised the poor house business, the free
school budget and other tax issues 58
Surveyed Resources
The majority of government-related resources
are located within the cities of Salem and
Roanoke, neither of which were surveyed as
part of this project. Salem contains the county
courthouse and many other county government
buildings. In 1841, the county established at
poor house near Masons Cove, but these
buildings are now gone.
The extant county resources that would
represent this theme are largely more recent in
date. These would include the Blue Ridge
Parkway, built in the 1960s, four county parks,
and the dam and reservoir at Carvins Creek.
These are discussed in this report according to
the themes that represent their function.
HEALTH CARE/MEDICINE
Historic Context
In the early to mid 19th century, many people
from across Virginia and neighboring states
began to flock to the springs of western Virginia
for their curative powers. Roanoke County had
three springs resorts in the 19th century. The
first, Botetourt County springs, had a short life
from 1822 to 1839 at the present day site of
Hollins College. The second was Lake Spring,
located outside Salem, popular during the late-
19th century boom years. The third, and most
popular, was Red Sulphur Springs near
Catawba. Established by a group of Salem
businessmen in 1856, Red Sulphur Springs was
built during the springs heyday and benefited
from its c]ose location to the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad's depot at Salem. Entire
families came, sometimes with their servants,
58Kagey, p. 106.
48
to take the waters. The spring retained its
popularity through the late 19th century 59
In 1909, the Commonwealth of Virginia
purchased the Red Sulphur Springs property
and established its first tuberculosis
sanatorium. In the early 1900s, between three
to four thousand people in Virginia died of
tuberculosis. The General Assembly set aside
$40,000 to help combat tuberculosis. Part of
this money was used to create sanatoriums, and
to purchase the Red Sulphur Springs, which
contained 651 acres with athree-story hotel.
The clean mountain air and moderate
temperature were considered ideal for aiding
recovery. The Commonwealth added lean-to
pavilions, tent houses, and a cottage to the
property, creating aforty-two bed facility. 60
The sanatorium expanded considerably over its
first thirty years. By 1937, the facility boasted
340 beds, a store, post office, school, chapel,
barber shop, and administrative building on its
1,120 acres. This expansion created a number of
jobs, primarily for former tubercular patients.61
The Barnett family in Catawba built a smaller,
private sanatorium in the same period, with
twenty cottages.62 By 1970, tuberculosis had
been controlled, and the Catawba Sanatorium
was closed at the end of 1971. In 1972, the
Catawba Hospital reopened as a
rehabilitation hospital for Virginia's elderly
with mental illness.63
Improvements in rural health care came to
Roanoke County in the 1920s, initiated by a
women's group known as the Rural Affairs
Committee of the Roanoke Chamber of
Commerce. This Committee acquired funding
from the Roanoke County Chapter of the
American Red Cross to hire a public health
nurse and from the Board of Supervisors to hire
a county sanitation officer.64
The first public nurse arrived in 1920 to fulfill a
work program outlined by the Rural Affairs
59Whitwell and Winborne, p. 59.
60~gey~ p, 411.
61~gey~ p, 412.
62Kagey, p. 368.
63~gey~ p, 412.
64~gey~ p_ 412.
Committee. One of the first priorities was to
examine the health of all school children,
many of whom were found to be ill with
diseases such as pink-eye, fever, tuberculosis
symptoms, and enlarged tonsils. The public
health nurse vaccinated area residents and
offered classes on health care to prevent the
spread of disease. The next priority was to
open a clinic for expectant mothers and women
who had children under the age of six years old
to teach them about proper health care. By
1923, classes were held to teach black and
white women how to care for the sick, and
community health centers were started to help
answer the questions that the local people had
about health. The centers for white women
were located at Ogden, Tinker Creek House on
Old Hollins Road, Vinton, and Edgewood. The
health center for black women was located at
Hollins School.65
One of the first priorities of the sanitation
officer was to educate farm families and school
officials about proper sanitary measures. The
impure water supply and the unsanitary waste
disposal procedures had caused intestinal
diseases and typhoid fever, which continued to
be a major public health problem until after
World War I. At this time, the City Council of
Roanoke gave funds for a three year
educational and clean-up program, in which
people were taught about proper sanitation at
farms and schools. 66
Public health reforms increased during the
1920s and 1930s. In 1926, the County
established a Board of Welfare. The Roanoke
County Public Health Association began a
traveling dental clinic, venereal disease clinic,
and toxoid clinic. One of the most significant
projects established by the County Public
Health Association was Mercy House, created
in 1937 as a home for impoverished people.
The facility began on the poor house farm, west
of Salem, opening with two cottages, one of
which was for tubercular patients. Although it
began as temporary housing for the poor, by
1939 it had become a sanatorium that served
other health needs. 67
65~gey~ p, 469.
66~gey~ p_ 468.
67~gey~ pp, 467-9.
49
The United States Veterans Administration
Neuropsychiatric Facility, now located in
Salem, opened in 1934 on a 445-acre site in
Roanoke County. The Veterans
Administration's regional office, which had
been located in Richmond, was moved to the
new Roanoke hospital site.68 Today this
facility, known as the Department of Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, has over six hundred
operating beds, and employs more than 1,300
people. It is a comprehensive center that
includes a nursing home, a psychiatric facility,
a medical center and assistance for amputees.69
Surveyed Resources
The survey documented several buildings from
the springs and spring resorts. The stone
springhouse built between 1830 and 1850 for the
Botetourt Springs Resort survives on Hollins
College campus (80-189), although it has been
renovated several times. This is aone-story,
one-room structure constructed of coursed, cut
stone and covered with a shingled, pyramidal
hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves.
Several resort buildings survives from the Red
Sulphur Springs resort at the Catawba
hospital site. Two 1850s buildings remain -- a
two-story pavilion with pilastered Greek
Revival facade and a cast iron octagonal
gazebo. Near the center of the hospital grounds
is a rubble-faced Gothic chapel with a
hammerbeam roof.
The Catawba Hospital features many early
20th century buildings constructed when the
resort was converted to a tuberculosis
sanatorium, including an administration
building, dining hall, dormitories, farm
buildings and numerous frame bungalows.
EDUCATION
Historical Context
Educational opportunities for Roanoke County
children were limited in the late 18th and first
68Kagey, p. 434.
69Telephone interview with Pat Clark,
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Salem, Va., 20 November 1991, (703)
982-2463.
half of the 19th centuries. Many parents were
not educated enough to teach the children, and
did not have the financial means to hire a
teacher. Furthermore, children were often
needed to help with the farm work ,
particularly during the busy harvesting and
planting seasons.
When the first settlers came to Roanoke
County, families of the same religion often
tended to settle in the same community. Their
churches would also be used as schoolhouses,
and the minister, who was usually the most
educated person in the community, would serve
as the schoolmaster. This practice was fairly
common throughout the Roanoke Valley. One
such example from the antebellum period was
the Bethel Church in Bonsack, where David
Plaine was the minister and teacher. 70
Other early schools were found in private
homes. Occasionally, several families in a
community would share expenses for a tutor.
This teacher would either come to the home to
teach or in most situations, give instructions in a
small schoolhouse that would be constructed on
a farm.
Wealthier families would hire a tutor or,
starting in the nineteenth century, send their
children to nearby private academies,
seminaries, or institutes. By 1838, Salem had
several private schools, including the Salem
Academy and an academy in the Presbyterian
Church building, a private girls school held in
the upper story of the Bernard Pitzer store.71
Orphans and poor children in the county would
be apprenticed or bound out by the overseers of
the poor to learn a trade from a master, who
was responsible for teaching the children
reading, writing, and Christian values. The
apprentices would live in the master's home,
and at the end of their apprenticeship, he often
bought the child a suit of clothes before sending
him out to find a job.72
While there were several attempts to
establish free schooling in the county, few such
70Kagey, p. 88.
71Kagey, p. 88.
72Kagey, p. 88.
50
opportunities were available until after the
Civil War. In 1846, the Commonwealth passed
a District Free School Act, which proposed the
use of literary funds and the county's tax money
for education. This program still was not very
successful because the donation of county tax
funds was optional, so many counties did not
participate.73
Roanoke County did attempt to start a free
public school system in 1846, with Colin Bass
as the superintendent. The court divided the
county into eleven school districts .74 This
system progressed slowly until after the Civil
War, since the the wealthier families viewed
the publicly-funded schools as schools for
paupers. Poorer people were reluctant to send
their children to these schools for fear of being
so labeled. In 1856, Roanoke County had only
185 students at public schools, with 137
attending private schools. 75
Higher education was available for those
children who were properly educated. These
students could attend the College of William
and Mary, established in Williamsburg in 1693
and supported by tax money from the counties.76
Two colleges were founded in Roanoke County in
the nineteenth century. Hollins College opened
in 1842 to provide higher education for women
and Roanoke College was founded in 1847 as a
coeducational institution by the Lutheran
Church.77
Hollins College was built on the Botetourt
Springs resort site in the northeastern part of
the county. In 1839, when the resort closed,
Edward William Johnston took over the resort
property and began Roanoke Female Seminary.
This school failed, but in 1842, Joshua Bradley,
a Baptist minister, opened Hollins College, a
coeducational facility, at this location.
Hollins college became the first successful
school of higher education for women in the
state and one of the first in the nation. The
73~gey~ p, 153.
74~geY~ PP• 153-4.
75Richard Edwards, ed., Statistical Gazetteer
of the State of Virginia. (Richmond: Published
for the Proprietor, 1856), p. 369.
76ICagey, p. 88.
77Kagey, p. 156.
school suffered from funding and faculty
problems under Bradley's guidance, and in 1845
the Valley Union Education Society took over
the school. Although there were twice as many
male students as female by 1852, the college
administration discontinued the education of
boys and changed the school name to the
Female Seminary at Botetourt Springs. Soon
afterwards, Mrs. Ann Hollins contributed
$5,000 for a new building, and the college was
renamed Hollins College in her honor. Today
the liberal arts college offers undergraduate
programs for women and coeducational
graduate programs. 78
Two Lutheran ministers, the Reverend C. C.
Baugham and Dr. David F. Bittle, began the
Virginia Collegiate Institute in 1842 in present-
day Augusta County. In 1847, the college
moved to Salem, holding classes at the Baptist
Church at the East Hill Cemetery and at the
Presbyterian Church, until the construction of
the main college building was completed in
1848. The first students boarded at nearby
private homes and meals were prepared at the
Christian Stoutamire farm. The college
continued to grow through the years and today
it remains a private, Lutheran-affiliated,
coeducational institution.79
In 1869, Virginia adopted a constitutional
amendment that required free public schools
throughout the state. At that time, only half
of Roanoke County's residents over the age of
ten could read or write. By 1870, Roanoke
County had established twenty-five schools for
white children and nine for black children,
many of whom could only attend at night
because of daytime employment 80 Most of
these early public schools met for only three
months out of the year. Even with this short
school year, school attendance was poor because
the children were needed to help on the farms.
Early schools usually had one room with one
teacher who taught different grades and ages
at the same time.
New private schools continued to open in the
county. In 1870, the U.S Census listed two
78ICagey, p. 165.
79~gey~ p, 169.
~ICagey, p. 223.
51
colleges, two academies, and five private day
schools in Roanoke County. Approximately 170
males and 75 females attended the two
colleges. Roanoke County academies had an
attendance of approximately 20 males and 40
females, and the private schools averaged
about 60 males and 50 females.81
]n Roanoke County, as with Virginia, the
interest in public education grew over the next
twenty years. During this period, many of the
state's one-room school houses were constructed.
By 1890, Roanoke County had 49 white and 16
black schools in the county 82
Virginia mandated many educational reforms
to the public school system around the turn of
the 20th century. At the time, the school year
was four months long, attendance was not
mandatory, and teachers were not required to
have a degree. Only about one half of the
children were enrolled in school and many of
them did not attended classes regularly.
Approximately one third of the children
finished elementary school. At the request of
Virginia's citizens, the General Assembly
provided funds for school construction, supplies,
and teacher salaries. In 1930, the nine-month
school year was established. After 1939, the
county only hired teachers with degrees, which
further improved the education system. 83
The improvement of roads in the early 1920s
led to the consolidation of many smaller
schoolhouses into larger, better equipped
consolidated schools. Beginning in 1907, the
county offered transportation to school on a
horse-drawn wagon. In 1932, Roanoke County
began plans for four new high schools. The
Andrew Lewis School on Broad Street, the
William Byrd School in Vinton, the William
Fleming School on Williamson Road, and the
George Washington Carver School were built
with funds provided by the federal government
and money borrowed from the Virginia Literary
Fund. The new high schools were equipped
with libraries, industrial arts departments,
and laboratories 84
sl~gey, p. 254.
82~gey~ p, 245.
83Kagey, p. 475-7.
84Kagey, pp. 414, 477.
Roanoke County's population grew after World
War II with the baby boom and with an influx
of young families who moved into the area.
The number of students in the public schools
increased from 8,276 to 17,929 between 1950 and
1965.85 Roanoke County built several new
schools to accommodate the increased number of
students, until the population growth slowed
down in the 1980s.
A vocational school, now known as the Arnold
R. Burton Technology Center, opened in Salem
in 1961. The school offered eight courses of
study - practical nursing, cosmetology, auto
mechanics, machine shop, electricity,
electronics, carpentry, drafting, and masonry.86
The school has continued to increase its
program in recent years.
Surveyed Resources
A variety of educational resources were
surveyed in Roanoke County, most of which
were public school buildings. The only private
school surveyed was Hollins College, a large
private college complex north of Roanoke. The
College contains a variety of educational
structures, dating from the second half of the
19th century through the present day. The
campus also includes several single family
residences that have converted into office
space. Many of the buildings around the
Hollins College Historic District were
surveyed for possible inclusion on a larger
historic district.
The oldest surveyed public schools were simple
one-room schoolhouses dating from the late
19th through the early 20th century. These one-
room schoolhouses are similar to those found
throughout Virginia. Two of the oldest school
buildings in Roanoke County can be found in the
Catawba Valley. The Gravel Hill School (80-
128) and the schoolhouse on the Barnett-
Starkey Farm (80-105) are both V-notched log
construction.
85Kagey, p. 517.
8~'Kagey, p. 520.
52
ONE-ROOM
SCHOOLS
Top Photograph:
(80-391)
7047 Thirland Road
Bottom Photograph:
DANGERFIELD
(80-343 )
Boones Mill Area
53
The majority of the county's one-room
schoolhouses are rectangular, frame buildings
covered with weatherboarding and standing
seam metal roofs. These structures have
undergone many changes, and none survive
unaltered. The example at 7047 Thirlane Road
(80-391), built between 1880 and 1900, still
maintains the basic form, but has had later
additions and new windows. Several black
schoolhouses were surveyed, including awell-
preserved example, called Dangerfield, ca.
1870, in the Boones Mill area (80-343); the
Kingstown School, ca. 1880-1900 (80-391); and
an early-20th century Catawba schoolhouses
with large classroom windows (80-262).
By the early 20th century, school house designs
began to change, even for the smaller country
schools. Some educational reformers believed
that bands of windows should provide lighting
across only one side of the school house. This
idea is reflected in the Mountain Top School at
10118 Sling Gap Road (80-332), ca. 1900 -1930,
which still retains its tall nine-pane windows.
The front entry, supported by a shed roof and
simple wooden brackets, leads into the side of
the gable end entry. The paired windows by
the door suggest the presence of a small
entrance foyer, another reform in early ZOth
century school house design.
A variety of two- to four-room school houses
were constructed in the county during the early
stages of school consolidation during the early
20th century. The majority of the surveyed
examples have been remodeled into residences
or for other uses. The Mountain View School,
ca. 1900-20 (80-393), illustrates a larger
schoolhouse plan, which incorporated more
classrooms. The present-day Clearbrook
Brethren Church, formerly a school (80-605),
and the Back Creek School (80-501) are quite
similar; both are one-story, square-shaped
buildings that appear to have had four rooms
each.
Between 1920 and 1940, Roanoke County began
to build larger consolidated schools in the
Colonial Revival style. The State Board of
Education developed and circulated a collection
of school building plans of different sizes for use
by the counties. Each county adapted the state
plans to fit the needs of that particularly
community. Several Roanoke County school
illustrate a popular 1920s plan. This one-story
design incorporates a central gymnasium,
which doubled as an auditorium, surrounded by
classroom wings to the sides and sometimes
along the front wall. Clearbrook Elementary
School (80-605), at 5202 Franklin Road,
illustrates this plan, with its gymnasium
clearly distinguishable by a gable roof.
Parapeted walls across the front and side are
familiar features of this design. The Starkey
Elementary School at 6426 Merriman Road (80-
348), demonstrates another variation of the
same design.
Several two-story schools were constructed in
the county, including the Fort Lewis
Elementary School (80-560) and Mt. Pleasant
Elementary, both of which date ca. 1920 -1940
and are in the Colonial Revival style.
Clearbrook is decorated with brick quoins,
keystones over the first-story windows, a
broken pediment over the front door, and
arched, decorative brickwork with a keystone
on the protruding wings. A hipped roof,
dentilled cornice, and a tall, square, central
cupola with a metal finial decorate the roof
line.
MILITARY
Historical Context
Roanoke County's participation in the
Revolutionary War has been recorded in the
Botetourt County histories, as Roanoke was
part of Botetourt County at that time. On
October 10, 1774, militia from Botetourt County,
led by Colonel William Fleming, assisted
Colonel Andrew Lewis in winning the Battle of
Point Pleasant. This crucial battle took place
at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River, in a
region that is now part of West Virginia 87
Other soldiers from the county fought in the
Battle of King's Mountain in North Carolina,
the battle at Guilford Courthouse, and other
battles in North and South Carolina. While
militia from Botetourt County did not
participate in many battles, they did take the
county census and defend against possible
87John E. Selby, The Revolution in Virginia
1775-1783. (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation, 1988), p. 17.
54
EARLY 20TH
CENTURY
SCHOOLS
Top Photograph:
MOUNTAIN TOP SCHOOL
(80-332)
10118 Sling Gap Road
Bottom Photograph:
MOUNTAIN VIEW SCHOOL
(80-393)
5213 Lois Lane
55
CONSOLIDATED
SCHOOLS
Top Photograph:
Clearbrook Elementary
School
(80-605)
5202 Franklin Road
Bottom Photograph:
Fort Lewis
Elementary School
(80-560)
3115 West Main Street
t '//
56
Indian attack. The county militia fou~ht in the
final Yorktown battle in October 1781. 8
The Civil War affected Roanoke County more
directly. Roanoke County residents
participated as suppliers of wool blankets,
uniforms, and food, especially wheat flour and
cornmeal, to the Confederate Army.89 Roanoke
County sent four companies of men to fight.
Three companies fought with the Army of
Northern Virginia throughout the war, and the
fourth company fought with the armies in
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia 90 In 1862,
1864 and 1865, the Governor of Virginia
requisitioned about 150 slaves to assist in the
fortification of Richmond. They were required
to remain in Richmond for sixty days, but some
were kept longer.91
Federal forces invaded Roanoke County twice
during the Civil War. In December 1863, Major
General W. W. Averell and his Union troops
entered the county to destroy the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad, which passed through
Salem. While in the county, General Averell
cut telegraph wires, tore up tracks, destroyed
bridges and culverts, and burned or confiscated
supplies.92
The second invasion came in June of 1864. After
the battle in Lexington, Union General David
Hunter headed towards Lynchburg, and then
followed the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
tracks west into Roanoke County. General
Hunter and his troops confiscated food and
destroyed property as they headed west.
While in Roanoke County, they burned
Bonsack's woolen mill and the nearby depot.
Roanoke's only Civil War battle occurred at
this time. While preparing to fight Major-
General Jubal Anderson Early's men, who were
advancing from the rear, General Hunter left
his baggage train and artillery unprotected.
Brigadier General John McCausland's
Confederate troops confiscated the supplies,
which resulted in the Battle of Hanging Rock.
88Kagey, p. 90-1.
89~gey~ p, 198.
90~gey~ p, 207.
91 "Our Colored People" WPA Historical
Inventory, p. 257.
92Kagey, p. 199.
Thirty of General McCausland's men were
killed or wounded in this battle, and they lost
the supplies they had secured.93
The lack of people to work farms and run
businesses placed hardships on Roanoke County
during the Civil War years. Although the
County provided money for local soldiers and
their families, supplies were limited and, by
1864, the county ran out of funds. The Ladies
Aid Society obtained cotton cloth and clothing
for the soldiers and Confederate Major J. C.
Green provided shoes for many of the soldiers
and their families.94
The county faced difficult times immediately
after the war. Property values were low,
Confederate money was worthless ,the
railroad was partially destroyed, and the
numerous deaths and wounded men brought
industry to a halt 95 Nevertheless, since the
war ended during the spring planting season,
and farms were less dependent on slaves labor
than in the Piedmont and the Tidewater
regions, many county residents were better off
than in other agrarian areas in the South.
The United States declared war on Germany on
Apri16, 1917 and entered into World War I.
Two days before this date, local residents held
a patriotic assembly at the courthouse in Salem
to encourage men to enlist. Nearly eight
hundred men from Roanoke County fought in
the war. Combat and disease took the lives of
thirty-two of these men 96 The Red Cross,
located above the Farmers National Bank,
collected over $9,000 and a variety of supplies
for the soldiers. The local women's groups held
other fund raisers. Roanoke County was further
affected by the war when a fuel shortage
caused a number of churches, stores and
factories to shut down temporarily. 97
World War II brought a variety of changes to
Roanoke County. Many county residents went to
work in the new Radford Ammunition Plant,
which provided jobs for 15,000 construction
93~gey~ PP• 201-2.
94Kagey, p. 211.
95Kagey, p. 217.
96~gey~ p, 431.
97~gey~ p, 480.
57
workers and 5,000 other employees. In 1940, the
airport was considered a defense project,
receiving federal funds to improve the runways
and install lighting. The war also lowered
industrial production, since many workers were
fighting overseas. The Roanoke County
Chapter of the American Red Cross gathered
volunteers to make hospital sheets, sweaters,
scarves, dresses, socks and other clothing
articles that were in short supply because of
the war.98 World War II claimed the lives of
nearly two hundred Roanoke County citizens.
During the Korean conflict, which began in
1950, 57 Roanoke Valley men were killed.
When the State Council of Defense was re-
established in the United States, local civilian
defense units setup ground observation posts to
watch for enemy aircraft. Since nuclear
warfare was a threat, the home front
volunteers were also trained in a variety of
activities including caring for the wounded and
speaking to civic groups.
Surveyed Resources
Few military resources were recorded during
the Roanoke County survey. The county has
Civil War battlefield within its present-
county limits. Photographs of a modern marker
to the Battle of Hanging Rock are included
with the survey. This is a limestone marker
featuring a bronze plaque commemorating this
battlefield. Nearby resources may have had
associations with the battle, such as providing
hospital space, but this type of information
was not readily available at this time.
Since Roanoke County's residents assisted in a
variety of support efforts during various wars,
other types of resources were associated with
military causes, such as the woolen mill at
Bonsack, but many of the resources are now gone
or would be located within Salem or Roanoke.
The Veterans Administration Hospital is now
within the present-day bounds of Salem.
RELIGION
Historical Context
98Kagey, p. 500.
The Church of England was the approved
religion in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary
War. The Church divided the colony into
parishes, roughly corresponding with the
counties, and assigned a minister to each
parisf~. Although most citizens of Roanoke
County did not belong to the established
Church, all citizens were required to support
the minister. This tax, and the fact that only
Anglican clergy could perform the ceremony of
marriage, often caused conflicts between
Anglican ministers and Protestant residents 99
During the years following the Revolution, the
General Assembly dissolved the Anglican
vestry of Botetourt County and in 1780 other
denominations were permitted to perform
marriage ceremonies. The Church of England
became the Protestant Episcopal Church after
the Revolutionary War, but there were very
few members between Charlottesville and the
Tennessee line. Reverend Nicholas Cobb's
frequent visits to then Botetourt County in the
early nineteenth century brought new members
to the church. In 1838, the Episcopalians began
holding services at a church on Tinker Creek,
starting the "Salem Parish."100
The majority of the early settlers into western
Virginia were Protestant, many of whom were
seeking religious freedoms unavailable to them
in their homelands. The Virginia Colony
tolerated their religious differences, due to its
desire to encourage settlement in the western
lands of Virginia. Early religious services were
provided by circuit-riding preachers who
traveled throughout the settled areas,
sometimes setting up a tent for several day until
more permanent ministers could be assigned.l01
Most of the early Scotch-Irish settlers in
Roanoke County were Presbyterian. In 1740, the
Donegal Presbytery assigned John Craig as the
first Presbyterian minister in western Virginia.
Craig preached at Augusta Stone Church and
Tinkling Springs Church neaz Staunton, but his
region covered neazly 10,000 miles, including
Roanoke County. As early as 1749, Craig was
99~gey~ p. 74.
100Kagey, p. 75.
101Kagey, p. 87.
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traveling to Roanoke County for baptisms.102
When the minister was not present a member
from the congregation would lead the service.
By 1762, Craig began preaching alternating
Sabbath days at Catawba, one of the earliest
Presbyterian meetings in present-day Roanoke
County. Several other congregations were soon
established, such as Tinker Creek in 1771. By
1833, Roanoke County had four congregations --
Peters Creek, Tinker Creek, Catawba, and
Salem.
The German families who settled in western
Virginia brought a variety of Protestant
denominations -- Lutheran, Reformed, and
German Baptists, or Church of the Brethren.
Lutherans were first recorded worshipping in
the Roanoke Valley near the end of the
eighteenth century. Their first itinerant
minister was Reverend Paul Henkel, who
traveled from his church in New Market to
Roanoke County to conduct services, usually
held in houses, barns, or schoolhouses. In 1826,
Lutherans built their first church building,
called Zion Lutheran Church on U. S. Route 11
between Salem and Roanoke. Ministers
preached sermons in both German and English.
The second Lutheran church in Roanoke County
was built in 1845 at Pine Grove, near the
intersection of routes 220 and 419. This building
was demolished in 1970 for highway
construction.103
Large numbers of German Baptists, often called
Church of the Brethren, began immigrating into
Botetourt County and present-day Roanoke
County in the late 18th century, particularly
between 1780 and 1800. Many settled at
Daleville in Botetourt County, where a
Brethren school was soon established. In
Roanoke County, the Gish family of Gish's
Mill, were Brethren, as were many of the early
settlers in the Bonsack community. Like other
denominations, the Brethren worshipped in
homes and schoolhouses. The Brethren built
their first church, Peter's Creek Church, in
1845, along the west side of Peters Creek above
Spring Road. This brick church building,
which measured 75 feet by 45 feet, still stands,
although it has been remodeled in recent years.
102Kagey, p. 76.
103Kagey, p. 78.
Other early Brethren churches in Roanoke
County include the Oak Grove Church, built in
the southwest part of the county, and
Kittinger's Chapel, in the Back Creek area.104
Before the Revolutionary War, several
dissenting denominations were introduced into
the British colonies, including the Methodists
and Baptists. In 1729, John and Charles Wesley
and George Whitefield, students at the
University of Oxford in England, hoped to bring
about a revival of personal religion within the
Anglican Church. The Methodist religion was
spread by circuit-riding ministers, such as
Francis Asbury, who worked out of Baltimore in
the 1780s and 1790s. The first Methodist
Church in Roanoke County was built in 1813 in
Salem and was a small log structure later
covered with weatherboards. The congregation
built a new church on College Street in 1850. A
second Methodist congregation was formed in
the Cave Spring area, where Methodists,
Lutherans, and Presbyterians worshipped in a
union church built in 1845. In 1853, this church
was deeded to the Methodists 105
The Baptists' evangelical spirit brought many
members to this denomination in the late 18th
century. The first Baptist church was the
Catawba Church, built in 1780 near Catawba.
Four years later, Baptists in Salem built the
Salem Church. A revival and a new minister
led to an increase in church membership, when
a group of forty members formed Pine Creek
Church in present-day Floyd County.106.
The Mormon church, which began in 1830, grew
quickly during the Second Great Awakening.
Between 1860 and 1888 many Mormons moved as
missionaries from Wythe and Tazewell
counties to the mountains of Roanoke County.
Their first convert was Zulah Ann Gladden, in
1888. By 1897, fifteen Mormons in the Back
Creek area built the Haran Chw.ch.107
The black residents of Roanoke County belonged
largely to Baptist and Methodist churches.
Throughout the antebellum period, most blacks
104Kagey, p. 81.
105~geY~ PP. 82-4.
106Kagey, p. 85.
107Kagey, p. 263.
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worshipped with white congregations. For
example, the Enon Baptist Church near Hollins
College started Sunday school classes in the
summer of 1855 for black servants and slaves of
some of the members. While blacks received
membership into the church, they were
instructed separately.108
After the Civil War, several black churches
were established. The black members of the
Enon Baptist Church established the Ebenezer
Baptist Church in Kingstown. Other black
churches included the Mt. Moriah Baptist
Church on U. S. Route 460 and the Bethlehem
Baptist Church in the western part of the
county.109
Surveyed Resources
The Roanoke Survey documented 21 churches.
The majority were frame structures and dated to
the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rural
church design remained quite vernacular
throughout most of the county.
Roanoke County has few churches standing
from the first half of the 19th century. The two
oldest churches in the survey area are the
German Baptist Church at 5333 Cove Road (80-
23) and the Cave Spring Methodist Church at
3320 South McVitty Road (80-7), both of which
have been extensively enlarged and remodeled.
The original parts of these churches were one-
story, rectangular brick buildings that reflected
the common 19th century country church design.
Windows pierced the side walls and the main
entrance led into the gable end. The Cave
Spring Church has a later Victorian steeple.
The simple rectangular-shaped church form
without any ornamentation can be found
through the early twentieth century. The only
break to the simple plan is often a rear apse.
Several well-preserved examples survive,
largely in the more remote areas of the county.
In some cases, these were "chapels" rather than
churches. The majority of these are frame, and
include Little Hope Primitive Baptist Church
(80-580) and Thompson Grove Church (80-326),
ca. 1880. The Thompson Grove Church retains a
108Kagey, p. 172.
109~geY~ P, 285.
high degree of interior integrity, with its
beaded wainscot, original pews, plaster walls,
beaded board ceiling, and paneled pulpit on a
raised dais. Boone's Chapel Church of the
Brethren, ca. 1910-1930, (80-589) illustrates
this plan in brick construction.
Larger congregations and churches nearer to
towns and cities often incorporated various
stylistic features by the late 19th century.
Some examples feature a slightly projecting
gable entrance, such as the Bellevue Church
(80-211), ca. 1890-1910, or the Bend Union
Chapel. St. John's AME Church (80-613), ca.
1924 ,breaks the rectangular form with a full
tower on the front corner. Some churches feature
a bell tower and sometimes a steeple over the
gable roof near the entrance gable. The
Ebenezer Baptist Church (80-390) has a bell
tower over the top of the projecting entrance.
Kittinger's Chapel (80-300), built between 1880
and 1900, has a square cupola with a
pyramidal roof, a plain cornice band, and a
shed-roofed apse. The Cave Spring Church
(80-288), constructed in 1907, has a square,
three-tier, central, front bell tower with a
pyramidal roof and metal finial.
The brick churches in Roanoke County range
from the simple box-like design at Boones
Chapel to larger, more prosperous brick
churches at Bonsack. The Bonsack Baptist
Church (80-618) boasts a full Greek Revival
portico. Other more modern examples, such as
the Bonsack United Methodist Church (80-617)
are larger but remain relatively simple in
design.
The Enon Baptist Church, at 7971 Williamson
Road (80-415) illustrates the Classical Revival
style. The decorative features on this church
include a front pediment with a modillion
cornice and full entablature. The double door
entrance is capped with a pediment supported
by scrolled brackets and fluted pilasters. A
hexagonal bell tower with a segmented dome
supported by colonnette, and a simple
balustrade is centered over the original church
structure. Numerous additions have been added
to this church without disturbing its integrity.
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CHURCHES
Top Photograph:
THOMPSON GROVE
CHURCH
(80-326)
10210 Bent Mountain Road
Bottom Photograph:
KITTINGER CHAPEL
(80-300)
6844 Landmark Circle
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CHURCHES
Top Photograph:
ST. JOHN'S AFRICAN
METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
(80-613)
3019 Rutrough Road
Bottom Photograph:
BONSACK BAPTIST
CHURCH
(80-618)
4535 Bonsack Road
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The county's black churches are quite similar to
white church buildings of the same era. The
1907 Cave Spring Bethel Church (AME) and
the 1924 St. Johan's AME Church (80-613) are
both frame church buildings, similar in design
to others throughout the county.
SOCIAL
Historical Context
Court days were an important social activity
for the early settlers. Residents would come to
the courthouse to pay their taxes and consult
lawyers about legal matters. At the same time
business transactions, such as the sale of farm
equipment and horses, would take place on the
courthouse grounds. Political candidates
gathered and debated current issues, while
friends grouped together to exchange local news
and current events from the cities. During the
early years, court day was considered the most
important social gathering of the year. A law
passed around 1902 ended the monthly court
day social activities.110
Many of the social activities in a rural
community such as Roanoke County revolved
around the seasonal rituals of farm work. Farm
families in rural communities came together to
participate in a variety of harvest activities,
including crop harvesting, corn shucking, and
threshing. Harvest activities incorporated
work with pleasure, offering opportunities for
social interaction for all sexes and ages.
Women gathered to prepare large meals, and
after the day's work had been completed, all
the neighbors often joined in playing music and
dancing. According to local tradition, dances
were often held at apple-butter gatherings,
where men would take turns watching over the
apple butter, and then would dance until it was
their turn again.lll
Quilting was a popular social gathering for
women and girls. Mothers and daughters would
piece scraps into quilt tops, which then needed
to be backed and quilted. Women held quilting
bees at their homes, inviting their female
neighbors. These gatherings offered an
110Kagey, p. 291.
111Kagey, p. 147.
opportunity for women to quilt, gossip, and
exchange news. Then they would prepare a
large dinner and the men would join them for
the meal, often followed by dancing and
games.112.
Public events, such as church services,
weddings, funerals, picnics, and holiday
celebrations, provided additional social
opportunities for Roanoke County residents.
During Christmas Week, traditionally the
twelve days of Christmas from Christmas Day
to Epiphany, families held a variety of
parties, dances and social activities.113 The
Neal and Trout Houses, the only hotels in the
area, would hold dances throughout the
year.114 Some social events centered around
agricultural events, such as livestock shows or
fairs. The fair activities included prizes for
the best livestock, horse races, and athletic
events such as the 220 yard dash, high jumping,
hammer throwing, and three-legged races.115
Social customs, such as courting, differed in the
19th century. The young men would call on girls
at their homes, where they might gather
around the piano and sing. Groups of young
people gathered together to play games, such
as charades, have a taffy pull, or hold a party
or dance. The popular dances of the time were
the old Virginia Reel, square dances, the
quadrille, lancers and the schottische.
Horseback riding, hiking, and picnics were also
very popular among young people.116
In the 1930s, an elderly Roanoke County
resident Albin Magee told a WPA interviewer
that the main social activities for children in
the 19th century were ice skating in the winter
and swimming in the summer. Magee recalled
that children could skate all winter until about
112Kagey, p. 149.
113Kagey, p. 143.
114Kagey, p. 148.
115Raymond Barnes, History of the City of
Roanoke, (Radford, Va., Commonwealth Press
Inc., 1968), p. 129.
116Gernude Blair, "Social Customs of the Early
Settlers in the Roanoke Valley," Interview
with Willie W. Caldwell, WPA Historical
Inventory, Federal Writers' Project. (Roanoke,
Va.: Stone Printing Company, 1941), pp. 3-4.
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March. The skates were made by blacksmiths
and held on with leather straps.117
The springs resorts offered a variety of other
social outlets in western Virginia, and Roanoke
County was no exception.. The 1884 Gazetteer
observed that Salem had become "very popular
as a summer resort;' due in large part to its
"delightful location." During the summer
~~
months, its society was greatly augmented by
visitors from the more southern localities."118
Although springs had been popular in the mid-
19th century, many experienced even greater
popularity with the coming of the railroad,
which provided bettertransportation to these
mountain springs resorts.
Resorts were built at natural mineral springs
near the railroad depots and stagecoach stops
in Roanoke County. When the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad was extended through
Salem in 1852, the Roanoke Red Sulphur Spring
Resort in Catawba and the Lake Spring Resort
in Salem were opened.119
Several Salem businessmen established the
Red Sulphur Spring Resort on 700 acres along
the south side of the Catawba Mountains, ten
miles north of Salem. The hotel was completed
in 1858, and the resort operated until the Civil
War. F. J. Chapman reopened the spring after
the war, and purchased the property in 1879.
The resort prospered after the railroad came
through, with guests riding the train to Salem
and then taking a carriage to the resort. The
sulphur and limestone springs on the site were
believed to have medicinal properties.
Wealthy families came from states as far
away as Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, often
staying through the summer to enjoy the spring
waters. During the yellow fever epidemic,
many wealthy families visited the resort to
take advantage of its seclusion, and to
hopefully avoid becoming ill. The springs
offered a variety of entertainments and
amusements, including Italian string bands,
checker parties, fishing, hunting, and
horseback riding.120
117ICagey, p. 148.
118ICagey, p. 546.
119~gey~ p, 180.
120ICagey, pp. 179-180.
F. J. Chapman , a wealthy Salem hotel owner,
operated both Red Sulphur Springs and the
Lake Spring resort at Salem. After his death in
1894, Ms sons sold the Red Sulphur Springs
property to the Commonwealth of Virginia in
1908. The state converted the property into the
Catawba Sanatorium, taking advantage of its
high elevation and dry climate for tuberculosis
patients. In the early 1970s, as tuberculosis
ceased to be a major public epidemic, the state
converted the Catawba Hospital into a mental
health facility.
Another popular springs resort in the mid-19th
century was Cove Alum Springs, located on a
160 acre tract of land three miles northeast of
Bennett Springs. The resort included a twenry-
two room hotel with a lazge ballroom and four
individual cottages. Visitors traveled long
distances to benefit from the healing properties
of the alum water and to participate in
activities such as fishing and hiking. When
the hotel burned in 1877, the land was sold to
the John Board family, who sold it to the City
of Roanoke in 1939.121
Surveyed Resources
Homes and farms provided the setting for many
of social activities in Roanoke County in the
18th and 19th centuries. Rural churches also
offered opportunities for social interaction,
including weddings and other organized
congregational events. These types of resources
are described under Domestic, Agriculture, and
Religion.
The springs resorts provided fellowship
opportunities more for visitors to Roanoke
County throughout the 19th century. While
most of these resources are now gone, some
buildings do survive from Botetourt Springs and
Catawba Springs (see Health Care/Medicine).
121 Helen R. Prillaman, Places Near the
Mountains, (Roanoke, Va.: privately
published, 1985), p. 296.
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RECREATION/ARTS
Historical Context
In the 19th century, many of the recreational
facilities, with the except of the springs
resorts, were located within larger towns, such
as Salem and Roanoke. Recreations such as
horse racing and sporting events were popular
during the nineteenth century, but these were
held within the town of Roanoke, not in the
county. Few resources of this type were
uncovered within the present county boundaries
during this survey.
Recreational facilities began to appear in the
county during the early twentieth century.
During the 1910s and 1920s, many amusement
parks were built across the country. In Roanoke
County, Tuck-away Park opened in 1921 near
Cove Alum Springs. This park offered a dance
hall, swimming pool, and concerts by the local
Roanoke band. The park closed in 1942, when
Roanoke City purchased land in the area for
Carvins Cove Reservoir. After the reservoir
was constructed, Carvins Cove became a
popular location recreational area for fishing,
boating, hunting and picnicking.122
Between 1920 and 1950 numerous rustic cottages
were built along the Roanoke River, rural
creeks, and in hollows and other rural areas of
the county. These structures served mainly as
weekend homes but some were hunting cabins.
These peaceful settings provided an
opportunity for people to enjoy nature and get
away from the more hectic city life.
One of the best examples of these rustic cottages
is the group of cabins that remain along Crystal
Creek, in the Cave Spring community. In 1932,
Andrew Wright moved to Back Creek from
Roanoke to escape suburban life for a simpler,
rural life. Wright, and others who followed
him, built log houses, which display a variety
of construction techniques. Russell Hughes and
his wife opened Reno's Roadhouse, a log tavern
that served meals, soft drinks, and bootleg
liquor, and soon became a "mecca for courting
couples." Although these began as year-round
122I<agey, pp. 334-6.
residences, many have since become summer or
vacation homes. 123
The prevalence of limestone caverns in western
Virginia led to the opening of many of these
caverns as tourist attractions in the 1920s and
1930s. One of Roanoke County's caverns -
called Dixie Caverns -opened in 1922. The
caverns is located on the ridge of Fort Lewis
Mountain, near U.S. Route 460 and U.S. Route
11. The caverns incorporated a lodge hall and a
camp ground.
Many of the first parks in this area were
constructed in the cities of Salem and Roanoke.
The county funded four county parks through
the Park Bond of 1985 - Whispering Pines, in
Masons Cove; Walrond, in North County; Green
Hill, in West County; and a proposed park in
Cave Spring. The facilities at these parks
include athletic fields, trails, picnic areas, rest
rooms, tennis courts and flower gardens.
Surveyed Resources
In the early 20th century, A number of
recreational cottages were constructed in the
county for weekend houses. The majority of
these recreational cottages were constructed of
log, with a few stone examples. In some cases,
these were built in clusters, such as those along
Crystal Creek or at Bennett's Springs. Others
were built throughout the rural areas of the
county. The survey documented many of these
recreational cottages.
The log cottages differ from earlier county log
buildings in several ways. The earlier log
structures typically have V-notching, squared
corners, small entry porches, steeper pitched
roofs, and were built in an agrarian setting. In
contrast, the twentieth-century cabins evolved
more from the early 20th century interest in
rustic buildings, illustrating more variety in
design and often reflecting a particular style.
The 20th century cabins often have saddle
notching with logs that typically extend from
the end of the building and lower pitched roofs.
Log railings, stone chimneys, and large porches
123Daniel Pezzoni, 'Preliminary Information
Form for Crystal Creek Drive Historic
District," (MS, May 7, 1991).
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for viewing nature enhance the rustic character
of these buildings.
Stylistic features are often found on the porches
and along the eaves. The example at 2974
Forest Acre Trail (80-193), built between 1900
and 1920, features decorative vertical boards in
the eaves. The cabin at 6210 Poor Mountain
Road (80-222) has aCriss-cross log railing across
the porch and a combined stone and brick
chimney, a common 19th century form in
Roanoke County.
Several log cottages reflect characteristics of
the Bungalow style, including 5643 Poor
Mountain Road (80-562), 1567 Richland Hills
Drive, and 6487 Bradshaw Road (80-572).
These examples feature an overhanging front
roof resting on more rustic log posts. The first
two examples have stone chimneys. Other
details included large multi-paned casement
windows at the second example and a log criss-
cross railing on the porch at the third example.
Some of these log recreational cottages feature
vertical logs, rather than the traditional
horizontal log technology. A group of these
buildings survives on Skyline Road and Getty
Lane, located along the Roanoke River near
Wabun. Examples include 80-201, 80-202, 80-
205, and 80-206.
The surveyed stone recreational cottages
display a variety of design, as illustrated by
6418 Dry Hollow Road (80-582} and 2215 Janee
Drive (80-521). The first example was designed
to face the woods instead of the road, with a
rear, main entrance and porch. The Bungalow
features of this house include a gable roof that
changes pitch to extend over the porch, and a
large rear shed dormer. The cobble stone
construction adds to the rustic character. These
stones were also used for the tapered round
columns, a form that is repeated in the unusual
chimney. The Janee Drive house is located
along a street that has one other stone,
recreational house and several log cottages.
This weekend house is constructed of more
traditionally laid, flat, rubble stone, with a
front gable dormer. The cottage has unusual,
long, louvered windows and exposed rafters and
a side stone chimney. The large gable-roofed
pavilion in the front yard enhances the setting
for outdoor activities.
Dixie Caverns (80-552) facilities include a log
cabin and a stone dance hall/restaurant, both
built ca. 1930-50. The dance hall/restaurant
building has been considerable remodeled since
its initial construction. This recreation site also
has a campground behind the standing
structures.
A theater/arts center called "Little Theater"
(80-182) has been surveyed on the Hollins
College. This is used for college and community
events.
TRANSPORTATION!
COMMUNICATION
Historical Context
The first transportation routes in the Roanoke
Valley were paths created by animals looking
for the salt deposits, like those at the Big Lick.
Indians traveling through the Valley also used
these paths, including the Tutelo. The
immigrants who came into western Virginia
and into the Roanoke Valley followed the
same paths. The major north-south route, often
called the Indian road, became a public
highway by 1745. Later land transactions
often referred to this as the Great Wagon Road.
This route began in Philadelphia, traveling
west to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from which
it headed southwest into the Valley of
Virginia, following present-day U.S. Route 11,
and then continuing south into North Carolina.
124
The major east-west route through the Roanoke
Valley was called the Trader's Path. This
route led west from Lynchburg, across the Blue
Ridge Mountains and into Big Lick and Salem.
At Big Lick, the path split, one branch heading
north through Botetourt County and the other
section continuing west in what was called the
Wilderness Road. The poor condition of the
east-west routes in the 18th and early 19th
century discouraged immigration from this
direction for a number of years.l~
124Kagey, pp. 27-33.
125Kagey, p. 28.
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RECREATIONAL
COTTAGES
Top Photograph:
(80-193)
2974 Forest Acre Trail
Middle Photograph:
(80-201)
1115 Skyview Road
Bottom Photograph:
(80-521)
2215 Janee Drive
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The Augusta County Court established another
trail from Lynchburg through Roanoke to Salem
in 1740. This trail, which intersected the Great
Road near Big Lick, was later called Neeley's
Road, then Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike, and
today, U. S. Route 460. Another early route,
called Greely Gap Road was established in
1746. This road extended five miles, connecting
the Great Wagon Road and Neeley's Road,
closely following current U. S. Alternate 220.126
Since the early roads were often full of deep
ruts, road maintenance proved a constant
problem in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Citizens who lived along the road were
responsible for its maintenance within five
miles of their property, and an overseer was
selected to enforce the law. Every man between
the ages of eighteen and sixty-five was
required to work on the roads in the county.
Anyone who obstructed the roads or did not
maintain their section was brought to court.127
The early 19th century brought a flurry of
turnpike construction across the state, in an
effort to improve the major travel routes. Many
turnpike companies were incorporated during
these years, but not all were successful in
completing turnpike projects. In Roanoke
County, the Fincastle-Blacksburg Turnpike
opened with a stagecoach stop in Salem by
1819. In 1938, the Salem and New Castle
Turnpike Company and the Salem and Peppers
Turnpike Companies were organized. Two
years later, two more turnpike companies were
formed -the Salem and Bent Mountain
Turnpike and the Buchanan and the Salem
Turnpike Companies. 128
Travelers along the turnpike used horses and
wagons and stagecoaches throughout the 19th
century. A variety of service facilities, such as
taverns and toll houses, were established along
turnpikes, often spaced at distances for about
one days travel. Small crossroads would often
develop around these taverns, creating turnpike
towns. Older communities located along the
126Kagey, p. 28-9.
127Kagey, pp. 31-3.
128Kagey, p. 34.
turnpikes often took advantage of the increased
commercial opportunities.129
The county stotes in these rural communities
often served as the post office for the
community, as at Catawba. As late as the
early 20th century, the Catawba Mercantile
Store (80-258), built in the early 20th century,
contained the post office for the community
until a separate post office was constructed on
an adjacent lot in the late 1940s.
Although Roanoke County did not have river
canals within its bounds, the community was
influenced by the canals in nearby Botetourt
County. The James River and Kanawha Canal
was navigable to Buchanan, in Botetourt
County, by 1852 and drained commerce from
Roanoke until the construction of the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad.
The railroad has played an important role in
the history and development of Roanoke
County, which became a hub for railroad
activity. In 1852, the Virginia and Tennessee
railroad was extended from Lynchburg to Big
Lick and Salem. Lynchburg had been lobbying
the legislature for rail transportation to the
New River Valley in an effort to extend its
market. Rail transportation was considered
faster and easier to maintain than the earlier
network of canals. Trains traveled at a speed of
40 miles per hour, greatly reducing travel time
from the stagecoach era. By 1854, the tracks
had been extended to Bristo1.130
In 1870, the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad,
the Southside Railroads, and the Norfolk and
Petersburg Railroads merged, creating a 479-
mile train system called the Atlantic,
Mississippi, and Ohio (A M & O) System. The
financial panic on Wall Street in 1873 created
problems for the A M & O and it was
eventually sold in 1880 to Clarence H. Clark.
When Clark reorganized the firm, renaming it
the Norfolk and Western (N&W) Railroad
Company in 1882, he selected Roanoke for its
headquarters. 131
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130Kagey, p. 177.
131Kagey, p. 243.
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The Norfolk and Western proved successful. In
1896, the N&W purchased the Roanoke and
Southern Railroad, which ran from from
Roanoke to Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Eventually, the N&W system expanded
throughout the midwest. While the N&W
Railroad was originally used largely for
transporting agricultural products, coal quickly
became the main product transported and
continues to be today.132
The Virginian Railway, a local rail system,
began in 1909. The tracks ran east-west through
Roanoke, parallel to the N&W Railroad for
twenty miles, and then followed the Roanoke
River. This rail system hauled coal from West
Virginia to the Norfolk area. The section from
Roanoke to West Virginia was electrified by
1930.133
Two small rail systems were built in Roanoke
County to transport minerals from local mines.
The Castle Rock Branch of the Roanoke and
Southern Railroad was completed in 1893 and
covered nearly three miles to the iron ore mines
in Castle Rock. It lasted for only eight years
while the mines were productive. The
Catawba Valley Railroad was built in 1909
and connected with the N&W Railroad in
Salem. It was used to transport sand, mined in
Catawba, to a glass plant in Salem.134
The steam-operated street railway greatly
improved transportation between Vinton and
Salem in the late nineteenth century. The
Vinton line and the Salem line, which were
electrified in 1892, traveled at a rate of eight
miles per hour. In 1929, sections of the street-
car system were replaced with motor buses. The
rise of the automobile brought the demise of
this system.135
Small buses, called jitneys, were used for public
transportation around the Roanoke vicinity in
the early twentieth century, but they were soon
replaced with taxicabs. In 1913, the first cab
company began operations in Roanoke, and the
taxi soon became a popular form of
tz,ansportation.136 Between 1930 and 1940, five
interstate bus lines began operations. By 1940,
buses were making frequent trips to and from
Roanoke. The early bus lines included Pan-
American, Consolidated Bus, New Castle Bus,
and Atlantic Greyhound 137
The popularity of automobile transportation in
the early 20th century led to the development
of hard-surface roads. In 1906, the General
Assembly passed an act that made the state
responsible for helping the counties with road
construction and maintenance. Only major roads
in the county were paved before World War II.
After the war many federal, state, and county
roads were upgraded and improved, in all but
the isolated mountainous areas.
Aviation was a popular hobby in Roanoke
County in the early part of the twentieth
century. Area residents flew planes over
Roanoke, using fields outside the city for
landing. In 1929, the county established a
committee to find an appropriate site for an
airport, incorporating landing strips, a flight
school, and aircraft storage. The Cannaday
Farm, six miles north of Roanoke, was selected
for landing strips, a flight school and aircraft
storage. As air transportation became
increasingly popular, American Airlines
established an air mail and passenger flight
service from Roanoke in 1934.138
In 1937, Roanoke City took over airport
operations from the county, paving the runways
through funding from the Federal Works
Projects Administration. The airport was
further improved during World War II when it
was declared a national defense project. This
designation permitted the use of federal funds
for improvements. After the war, commercial
flights increased from an average of 100
passengers per day in 1945 to 1,000 by 1974.139
During the late 1970s, the Virginia Air
Transportation System studied the
establishment of a municipal airport for the
Roanoke, Lynchburg, and Danville area. The
132Kagey, p. 406. 136Kagey, p. 405.
133Kagey, p. 443. 137Kagey, p. 443.
134Kagey, p. 407. 138g~geY~ PP• 444-6.
135Kagey, p. 404. 139Kagey, p. 449.
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committee chose Roanoke. An expanded and
improved Roanoke Regional Airport opened in
1990.
Surveyed Resources
Historic transportation resources are generally
located along the major travel arteries; in
Roanoke County, these would be along the
roads and later railroads. Many of the houses
and other buildings along the early roads and
turnpikes often served some transportation
related functions. Residents of houses
sometimes opened their homes to provide food
and lodging for travelers. In some cases, houses
evolved into taverns; in other sit:iations,
buildings were constructed specifically for use
as taverns or later hotels. The Roanoke County
survey identified two such lodging facilities.
The Black Horse Tavern (80-410), constructed
ca. 1854, is a log dwelling reportedly used as a
tavern. A hotel called Belle Grove was located
nearby (80-408), and its small brick Greek
Revival office building (80-409) survives at the
same site.
Many of the county's small towns and villages
are in themselves transportation resources,
including crossroads communities, turnpike
towns, or railroad towns. These communities
grew because of their access to transportation
routes. Salem's location along major turnpikes
helped boost its growth during the first half of
the 19th century. Communities like Bonsack
and Gish's Mill boomed during the railroad
years, after the railroad came through their
bounds. The City of Roanoke is one of the
county's largest transportation resources,
drawing much its growth from the railroad
access and the establishment of the railroad
offices here in the 1880s.
Surprisingly few resources with clear ties to the
railroad remain in the county. No railroad
depots were discovered during the course of the
survey; these aze documented only through
photographs. A number of the railroad-related
resources that do survive have been heavily
altered, so additional historical research
would be needed to document their connection to
the railroad. For example, at Bonsack, aturn-
of-the-century house survives that was once the
stationmaster's house, but this connection would
not be obvious merely from an examination of
the building. While some railroad resources,
such as depots, were often built specifically for
that purpose, in other cases, older buildings
were reused as the community's needs changed.
With the arrival of the automobile, a new type
of business arose -the gas station. Often times,
these stations were associated with a country
store. The Roanoke survey documented several
gas stations. The Hickety-Pickety-Gazage (80-
496), ca.1920 -1940, a combination gas station
and store, features a small one-story
commercial building with a wide overhanging
roof to shelter the gas pumps. The G. K. Custer
Grocery and Hardware store (80-591), ca. 1920-
40, is a small brick building, again with the
broad overhanging roof, this time supported by
massive stone columns.
Several examples of bridges have been
surveyed, including a few railroad bridges from
the turn-of-the-20th century and several early
20th century road bridges. These aze described
in more detail under engineering/technology.
COMMERCE/TRADE
Historic Context
As roads improved in the late 18th century,
travel increased. This increased travel led to
the establishment of many inns, taverns, and
ordinaries along the main roads, providing food
and lodging for travelers and their livestock.
Some residents along these roads opened their
houses to travelers. All innkeepers were
required to purchase licenses, and the fees that
they charged were set by the courts.i40
Small crossroads villages often evolved azound
these inns and taverns along the major routes,
such as Gish's Mill or Cave Spring. These
villages became centers of local commerce. The
country store was the center this trade, where
local farmers and residents would bring goods to
trade and sell and where they would purchase
goods from outside the community. Other
commercial enterprises at these crossroads
1`~Kagey, p. 68.
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TRANSPORTATION
RESOURCES
Top Photograph:
BELLE GROVE
(80-408)
7223 Old Mountain Road
Bottom Photograph:
G. K. CUSTER GROCERY
(80-591)
3977 Old Catawba Road
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communities could include a grist mill or other
small craft shops.
By the late 19th century, larger and often more
specialized commercial enterprises developed
throughout the countryside. The variety or
general store became a nationwide institution
and carried clothing, shoes, hardware, dry-
goods, drugs, farm tools, blankets, and
household needs. Jacob Bonsack's store in
Bonsack, near the railroad depot, was a local
example.141 Other retail businesses
specialized in a particular product, such as
groceries, tailoring, cabinetmaking, carriage
manufacturing, and tobacco.
The underground springs in Roanoke County
encouraged the development of business at the
springs resorts. The Botetourt Springs resort,
with a hotel and cottages, prospered during the
1820s and 1830s.142 Other popular spring
resorts in the county include the Roanoke Red
Sulphur Springs in Catawba, which opened in
1857, and the Lake Spring in Salem, operating
in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.143
The emergence of the railroad in the late 19th
century accelerated commercial growth in
Roanoke County. Those towns and communities
located along the railroad, such as Big Lick,
Salem, Vinton, Cave Spring, and Bonsack grew
rapidly, benefiting from the increased trade
provided by the railroad. For Big Lick, the
railroad brought major commercial growth,
boosting the community from a small
antebellum community to a major commercial
center. For other smaller communities, like
Cave Spring or Bonsack, the transportation
links available through the railroad
encouraged the development of specialized
commercial trade, such as marketing orchard
products.
Throughout the late 19th and early 20th
century, the majority of commercial
establishments located within the county
bounds related to the agricultural base of the
community, such as milling, blacksmithing, and
general stores. As technologies changed, and
141Kagey, p. 127.
142Kagey, p. 157.
143Kagey, p. 180.
many of these trades became industrialized,
these businesses gradually left the countryside
for cities. Some businesses, such as physicians,
dentists, and undertakers, continued to remain
in the countryside, but found themselves
increasingly in competition with those
operations in the cities.
Beginning in the 1950s, several organizations
have established large commercial offices in
the county. Allstate Insurance opened an office
in Roanoke City in 1951, but moved to the
county in 1956. This location became a regional
office in 1986, and currently employs over six
hundred people. Kroger grocery operations
bough a thirty acre tract west of Salem for a
warehouse and freezer facility in 1959. Kroger
has expanded to two sites, one at Glenvar and
one on Kessler Mill Road. ITT Components
Division established a manufacturing site in
northern Roanoke County in 1959, and the
Double Envelope Corporation, a printing and
converting business, was started in the county in
1960.
Surveyed Resources
Roanoke County contains numerous commercial
resources. The largest of these resources are the
many crossroads communities, some of which
later grew into larger towns and villages.
These communities provided a variety of
services for area residents, some of which were
provided in private homes and some through
specific building types.
In the 18th and early 19th century, stores and
trading operations often took place within
private homes. These began as small businesses
but often grew into larger enterprises which
required separate store buildings. While it is
often difficult to determine which older houses
might have served such functions without
additional historical research, a few surveyed
buildings suggest a combined residential and
commercial function. The house at 6831
Landmark Circle (80-528) appears as a deep
rectangular store form butted against a house
form; examples like this in other parts of
western Virginia have often housed commercial
functions.
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STORES
Top Photograph:
(80-356)
8344 Boones Chapel Road
Bottom Photograph:
(80-626)
8176 Peters Creek Road
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STORES
Top Photograph:
(80-328)
9526 Tinslev Lane
Bottom Photograph:
(80-387)
Corner of Randall Drive
and Rutrough Road
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The nine surviving stores display a variety of
designs. One common thread underlies these
examples -most are rectangular structures,
with the gable end, which contains the
entrance, fronting the road. The surveyed
examples display tremendous variety in scale.
Two of the smallest stores are 5678 Roselawn
Road, (80-348), one of the few examples with
an entry in the long wall, and 8344 Boones
Chapel Road (80-356). Both are one-story with
small shed additions to the side. A slightly
lazger examples survives at 8176 Peters Creek
Road (80-626). This has a deeper shape and
larger store area, similar to many late 19th
century stores, but it is only one-story high. The
store retains its simple false front and front
porch, along with the plate glass windows and
door which appear unaltered.
Roanoke County contains several good examples
of the large merchantile stores from the early
20th century. These buildings have simple,
shed roofed porches sheltering the recessed
front entrance, which is flanked by large
display windows. Side, shed-roof additions
had been added to provide additional storage
space. One of the best examples of this form is
Ferris Market (80-387). This is a two-story
building, with original porch, front shed roof,
display windows and doors, and a loading door
above the front porch.
Other good examples of merchantile stores
were recorded in the survey at 9526 Tinsley
Lane (80-328), 8344 Boones Chapel Road (80-
356), 5167 Poor Mountain Road (80-216), 8176
Peters Creek Road (80-626), and at the corner of
Randall Drive and Rutrough Road (80-387).
Within the basic form of the general store,
these examples display some stylistic
variations. The store on Tinsley Lane, built
between 1880 and 1900, features a double door
entrance constructed with diagonal boards and
exposed rafters with carved ends. The store on
Boones Chapel Road has been decorated with
single, board-and-batten shutters, a double
batten door entrance, and diagonal boards on
the north addition door.
By the 1920s and 1930s, with the popularity of
the automobile, many stores added gas pumps
and many gas stations were built with small
stores. Roanoke County contains three good
examples of these resource types. The
characteristic feature of these structures is a
wide, overhanging roof that shelters the gas
tanks. Surveyed examples include 10402 Bent
Mountain Road (80-528), Hickety Pickety
Garage (80-496), and the G. K. Custer Grocery
and Hardware Store (80-491). All of these
examples are one-story and contain smaller
store areas than the older merchantile
buildings.
As commercial operations moved into major
towns and cities in the 20th century, most of
these general store operations have been
abandoned and many of the buildings have been
either removed or remodeled. Since the
surviving stores are usually vacant or used for
storage, they aze threatened by neglect.
Besides the stores, which were the center of
local trading, a variety of other building types
served commercial functions. The community's
grist mill was often a center for trading.
Taverns, hotels, and other lodging
establishments can be considered commercial
structures as well as transportation resources.
These resource types are discussed under
transportation and industry.
INDUSTRY/PROCESSING/
EXTRACTION
Historic Context
The earliest industries in Roanoke County were
related to agriculture or small craft shops.
Most of the settlers of the county were farmers,
but some practiced a trade along the side.
These early settlers were often skilled in
milling, coopering, cabinetmaking,
blacksmithing, gunsmithing, or iron work.144
Those that did farm would often set up their
operations near a large farm where their skills
could be mazketed 145
Milling was an important eazly industry in
Roanoke County, as it was throughout the
Shenandoah and James River Valley. Grist
mills, later called merchant mills, processed
wheat and corn into flour and meal, which was
then marketed outside western Virginia. Some
1~Kagey, p. 63.
145Kagey, p. 19.
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of these grist mills incorporated other milling
operations, such as saw mills, fulling mills, and
sometimes processing lime. Mills were
constructed along waterways for power, using
wooden waterwheels turned by belts made from
animal hide.146 By 1860, according to the U.S.
Census, 12 flour and metal mills were operating
in the county, employing 24 men and having a
value of $178,662. 147
Cline of the earliest Roanoke County grist mills
was constructed by Mark Evans before 1753 at
the base of Mill Mountain. Tasker Tosh took
his extra grain to the Evan's mill to be ground
into flour and sold it to the militia. By 1797
Samuel Harshbarger had constructed a mill on
Carvin Creek. Harshbarger's house, built at
the same time, still stands at that site and has
been nominated to the National Register of
Historic Places. David Gish built two mills in
the present day environs of Vinton, one on
Glade Creek and another on Wolf Creek, both
in the eazly nineteenth century.148 In 1848,
Elijah Poage built a sawmill and grist mill in
the Back Creek area. Poage lived in his
ancestor's two-room log house until he built a
larger house, which still stands on U.S. Route
221, in 1882. Near the house stood a loom
house, a smokehouse, a slaughter house, a
spring house, a post office and a coffin factory.
Colonel Henry H. Chapman and William
Walton started a merchant mill in the 1850s on
the Roanoke River. Their mill illustrates the
varied functions of many of the western
Virginia mills in the mid-19th century. The
mill ground wheat for flour, corn for meal, and
lime for plaster. They also had a brick plant
and a sawmill on their property.149
Many early mills incorporated fulling mills for
wool. The process of manufacturing wool
became more industrialized in the early 19th
century at woolen mills, which wove the yarn
into cloth. The Bonsacks started a woolen mill
in Bonsack around 1822, producing clothing
146Kagey, p. 63.
147U.S. Census, Agricultural, Eighth Census
Schedule.
1`~Kagey, p. 65.
149Kagey, p. 125.
articles and blankets.150 In 1860, the woolen
mill employed 18 men and had a value of
$21,000, the second leading value for Roanoke
County outside of milling and tobacco
manufacturing.151
A variety of small craft shops dotted the
countryside in the mid-19th century, with many
located in the towns and village. John Poage
was a furniture maker in the early nineteenth
century. He began making coffins and
eventually developed an undertaking business,
which has passed down through the family.152
Abraham Hupp had a metal works business in
Salem, probably the tin-ware manufactory
listed in the 1856 Virginia Gazatteer. Using
tin, copper and sheet metal, his business made
tinware, stoves, stills, and kettles. Charles
and William Snyder were tanners and
shoemakers.153 In the northern part of Roanoke
County, F. D. Hall had a wagon making and
repair business.154 The 1860 census also listed 3
boot and shoemakers, one iron-caster, and one
leather-worker.155
Minerals have been extracted from the
mountains of Roanoke County for several
centuries. During the late 18th and 19th
centuries, many iron furnaces were established
throughout western Virginia, including several
in adjacent Botetourt County. An iron furnace
was built in the Starkey community in the late
18th century, with "early operations on a crude
scale." 156 Little other mining activity occurred
during the antebellum period.
The expansion of the railroads in the late 19th
century led to a flurry of mining speculation
throughout western Virginia. In Roanoke
County, many iron mines operated during the
period between 1880 and 1905. The 1884
Gazetteer noted that "the mineral deposits,
150Kagey, p. 66.
151U.S. Census, Industrial, Eighth Census
Schedule.
152Kagey, p. 65.
153Kagey, p. 126.
154Kagey, p. 127.
155U.S. Census, Industrial, Eighth Census
Schedule.
156Kagey, p. 286.
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the chief of which is iron are very valuable,
and extensive machine and iron and steel works
have recently been established." The iron
works were "working to its full capacity of 100
tons of pig iron per day." The Catawba fiirnace
produced iron for ships. The county's iron mines
included the Rorer mines (opening in 1880), the
Gale and Castle Rock mines in southwest
Roanoke County, and the Griffin mine near
Salem. Iron mining discontinued in the early
20th century, since it became cheaper to extract
ore from other locations.157
In the late 1880s, rich zinc deposits were
discovered in Roanoke County on David
Plaine's property, near the old Bonsack depot.
In 1888,11,878 tons of zinc were shipped by
railroad out of the area. Mining operations
must have ceased by 1895, when the property
was resold for only $2,400, suggesting that most
of the zinc was already extz.acted.l5
Other excavating operations provided building
materials for the county. A high quality silica
stone was extracted from the south side of
Catawba Mountain and used for building stone
and sand. The Roanoke College Lutheran
Church in Salem and the First Presbyterian
Church in Roanoke were built from this stone.
The stone was also crushed into sand for glass-
making. The sand was transported by wagon
and later by railroad (between 1909 and 1942)
to Salem for glass manufacturing at the
Piedmont Glass corporation.159
The abundant sources of clay and shale
throughout the county were extracted for brick-
making, beginning in the late 19th century. In
1890, the Pierpont Brick Works opened in
Salem, and has continued to operate for over a
century. The business is now called the Old
Virginia Brick Company. The Webster Brick
Company operates neaz Bonsack, just outside
Roanoke County.160
In the twentieth century, with the growth of
Roanoke, thousands of new jobs have been
established in the area, with many in public
157Kagey, p. 286.
158Kagey, p. 288.
159Kagey, p. 288.
160Kagey, p. 288.
utilities and transportation. The majority of
new industries came into Salem. A 1950 survey
of Roanoke County's industries, conducted by
the Salem Chamber of Commerce revealed that
the county had 100 industries producing 500
products, with the majority of the
manufacturing plants in the city of Salem.
General Electric established a large plant in
Salem in 1955, becoming one of the largest area
employers. 161 Today the county's diversified
jobs include trade, industry, culture and
transportation.
Surveyed Resources
Although mills were common in the 19th
century, only one county example was found
during the course of the survey, and that
example dates to the 20th century and has been
largely rebuilt. Turner's Mill (80-370) is a
small frame building that was originally
constructed ca. 1911 and rebuilt and restored in
1979 with a new waterwheel. No machinery
survives inside the mill.
Few other industrial sites were found during
the course of the county survey. Although there
were a number of mines, few buildings survive
from those operations. Several railroad
bridges have been recorded that served
railroad lines to the mines; these are described
under engineering/technology. The majority of
the surviving historic industrial sites would be
located within the present-day cities of
Roanoke and Salem.
The Catawba Rural Historic District survey
did document several industrial sites, including
small rural blacksmith shops, such as those on
the Woods Morehead Farm (80-103),and the
Crawford -Earkin Farm (80-129), a twentieth
century building with a brick forge. Other
documented sites include a 20th century
portable sawmill (80-166), a stone lime kiln
(80-112), and several mill sites.
161Kagey, p. 513.
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LANDSCAPE
Historic Context
Roanoke County's natural beauty, featuring
mountains, rivers, and creeks, has encouraged
people to build or purchase properties for
vacation and weekend homes. This interest in
the area's natural beauty led several city-
dwellers to establish full-time residence along
Crystal Creek in the 1930s.
The Blue Ridge Parkway runs throughout the
southeastern part of the county, offering
recreational opportunities for Roanoke County
residents and encouraging tourist visitation.
Western Virginia features many limestone
caverns, some of which are open to the public.
Roanoke County contains Dixie Cavern, located
on U.S. Route 460, west of Salem near the
Montgomery County line. The caverns were
discovered in 1920 by Bill McDaniel, who, as a
young boy, was searching for sacred Indian
grounds that were reportedly in the area. He
found a small opening in the side of the
mountain. Further exploration showed a
cathedral-size cavern with a variety of
multicolored limestone formations. The caverns
were developed for public exploration, with
stairs and tunnels created to allow easier public
access. Dixie Caverns features recreational
facilities, including a lodge hall, which still
survives, providing a restaurant and dance
hall, and a camp ground.
Surveyed Resources
The landscape resources in the county have been
described under other themes. The Dixie
Caverns buildings serve primarily a
recreational function and are discussed under
that them. Crystal Creek, and other early
20th recreational cabins, are also discussed as
recreation. The Blue Ridge Parkway is
described under Landscape Architecture.
FUNERARY
Historic Context
The majority of the large cemeteries in the area
are located in the cities of Roanoke or Salem.
The Old Tombstone Cemetery, located about one
mile north of the City of Roanoke on Plantation
Road, is in the county. This cemetery is well
known for the Denton Monument, which was
carved in the early nineteenth century by
Laurence Krone and is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places.
More commonly found in the county are smaller
church and family cemeteries. The church
cemeteries are generally well maintained, but
many of the family plots are in poor condition.
The deterioration of family cemeteries usually
occurs when the land is sold outside the family.
Family cemeteries are further endangered by
the lack of fencing, which would afford a
measure of protection.
Surveyed Resources
The Henry cemetery and the Kittinger
cemetery provide good examples of well-
preserved family cemeteries in Roanoke
County. The Henry cemetery (80-171) contains
about 20 markers, dating from 1886 through
1940. The markers are mostly simple designs,
with a few decorations about hands shaking or
simple flower motifs. Three of the graves are
marked with head and foot stone combinations.
The Kittinger cemetery (80-173), dating from
1896 to 1990, illustrates a wide variety of
popular cemetery markers to the present day.
ARCHITECTURE/
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE/
COMMUNITY PLANNING
Historic Context
The Blue Ridge Parkway, a scenic roadway,
runs through the eastern part of Roanoke
County. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
established the parkway as a New Deal
program in the 1930s. The Public Works
Administration funded the project, providing
needed jobs to many area residents.. The road
took several decades to build, with final
completion in 1987. The section through
Roanoke County was completed in the mid-
1960s. The Parkway now provides a 180-mile
drive through 470 miles of park land, providing
scenic mountain views of National Forest lands.
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Some older houses are still visible from the
Parkway.162
Roanoke County established a Planning
Commission in 1939. Within the first two years
of its operation, the county adopted its first
subdivision ordinance, comprehensive plan and
zoning ordinance. In 1960 the zoning ordinance
and map were revised. Ten years later, major
revisions of the zoning ordinance text, and a
county-wide reclassification of the zoning map
were developed, but these changes were
rejected in 1977 and clarifications of the zoning
ordinance were written in 1985. A second
comprehensive plan was adopted in 1974 and
the present one was adopted in 1985. Today,
the Roanoke County Planning and Zoning Office
is working on writing a new zoning ordinance.163
Surveyed Resources
Besides the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs
through the county, no other resources in this
category were uncovered during the course of
the county survey.
TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING
Historic Context
Many of the county's early engineering resources
are its bridges. Although early settlers forded
creeks, local residents built bridges across
larger rivers and creeks along the major roads
as soon as resources were available. The
earliest bridges were built of wood, but none of
these survive to the present day. At the turn-
of-the-20th century, steel truss bridges were
constructed throughout Virginia. By the mid
20th century, concrete bridges became more
common throughout the countryside. The Blue
Ridge Parkway features several bridges from
the mid-20th century that are more aesthetic in
design.
Railroad construction led to the second half of
the 19th century brought the construction of
many cut stone bridges which crossed creeks,
162ICagey, p. 452.
1~County of Roanoke Department of Planning
and Zoning, Roanoke County Land Use Plan:
Comprehensive Development Plan, Horizon
Year 2003 (Roanoke, Virginia: 1985), p. 104.
rivers, and roads. Even when the tracks have
now been removed, many of these bridges still
remain throughout the countryside.
Two other examples of technology-related
resources came with rural and civic
improvements in the early 20th century. The
Niagara Dam was built in Roanoke County
around the turn of the 20th century. The
Roanoke Hydraulic Power Company acquired
the rights to a section of land on the Roanoke
River, a few miles southeast of Vinton. The
dam, which measures 530 feet long and 60 feet
high, was built at a narrow gorge where the
Roanoke River passes through the mountains.
The dam powers four generators which create
11,000 volts of electricity. This dam and a
steam-operated plant provided the electrical
power for Roanoke City for a number of
years.214
In 1947, the Roanoke City Water Department
constructed a reservoir at Carvins Cove. As the
city continued to grow, the Water Department
constructed a tunnel through Tinker Mountain to
provide more water for the reservoir in 1966. In
1972 a second tunnel was created, allowing
water from Catawba Creek to enter the
reservoir. The Carvins Cove Reservoir has
become a favorite county recreation site for
picnicking, hunting, boating, and fishing in
recent years.215
Roanoke County boasts the invention of the
first cigarette rolling machine by James A
Bonsack. While on vacation at Coyner Springs
he spotted a poster from a cigarette
manufacturing company offering a lazge sum of
money to anyone who invented a machine that
would roll cigarettes automatically. At the
age of 16, Bonsack coaxed his friends into
helping him invent such a machine. This
machine greatly enhanced the cigarette
industry. Bonsack and his associates secured a
charter for the Lone Jack Cigarette Machine
Company in 1883164
Surveyed Resources
164 Raymond P. Barnes, History of Roanoke,
(Radford, Va: Commonwealth Press, Inc.,
1938), p. 129.
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The Roanoke County survey identified several
cut limestone railroad bridges, such as that
across Peter's Creek Road and the N&W bridge
over Dry Hollow Road (80-564). These bridges
are constructed. of cut, coursed stone supporting
steel railroad trusses.
The majority of the county's road bridges are
modern concrete examples that date to the 20th
century. Representative examples include
Mason Creek bridge, at the intersection of Route
311 and Dutch Oven Road, and the Bridge (80-
588) along the Old Catawba Road, ca. 1920 - 40.
The survey identified one older dam site along
Bottom Creek (80-502), dating ca. 1900-20. This
is one of the few stone dams surviving in the
county. The Niagara Dam and the Carvins
Cove Reservoir were not surveyed, due to their
more recent construction date.
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BRIDGES
Top Photograph:
Railroad Bridge
Norfolk and Western
Railroad
(80-564)
Drv Hollow Road
Bottom Photograph:
Road Bridge
(80-588 )
Old Catawba Road
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
NATIONAL REGISTER AND
SURVEY
POTENTIAL INDIVIDUAL
NOMINATIONS
Harris Farm, 5403 Bent Mountain Rd. (80-294)
The Harris House and its related outbuildings
represent a highly intact mid-19th century
farmstead. The house began as a two-room log
structure ca. 1830-50, with most of the original
mantels and interior trim remaining intact.
This is one of the best preserved of the early
19th century log dwellings to survive in the
survey area. The farm contains an excellent
grouping of representative outbuildings,
including a log dairy, corncrib, smokehouse,
wash house, springhouse, corncrib, and two
chicken houses.
Bellvue Farm, 5648 Roselawn Rd. (80-292)
Bellevue Farm illustrates the transition in
local vernacular architecture from the smaller
log houses of the early 19th century through
the more popular I-house design by the end of
the century. The house began as a single log
pen, enlarged later in the century into the more
popular I-house and decorated with atwo-
story gallery porch. The farm retains a
significant collection of outbuildings, including
a springhouse, smoke house, and corncrib.
Bellvue represents the type of small farm
engaged in the prosperous orchard business in
the Bent Mountain area in the early 20th
century. One of its tenant houses, associated
with the ordlard business, survives on the
farm.
McCray Farm, 7184 Old Mill Rd. (80-301)
The McCray Farm is significant for its well-
preserved vernacular domestic building forms
and as a representative orchard farm in the
Bent Mountain community. The oldest pazt of
the house, currently the ell, was atwo-room
hall-parlor plan, built ca. 1820-40, which
retains a high degree of interior integrity. The
house was enlarged between 1890 and 1910 with
a decorated frame I-house, reflecting the
growing prosperity of this community. Like the
original part, the addition survives with few
changes. The farm contains a variety of
associated barns and outbuildings, the most
significant being a brick drying-house, the only
documented example of this type in the county.
The drying house was used to dry orchard
products from the farm.
Speedwell, 6135 Merriman Rd. (80-27)
Speedwell is one of the best preserved
antebellum houses in Roanoke County. The
house, built ca. 1831, is a brick I-house with
most of its original Federal trim surviving in
excellent condition. A significant duster of
outbuildings survive with the house, including
a detached kitchen, log corncrib,. early 19th
century brick kitchen/house, well, and barn. A
small family cemetery, dating to the 1700
survives near the house. The surrounding
village of Starkey takes its name from this
home, after Tazewell and Henrietta Harvey
Starkey who owned the property when the
railroad came through the area. This property
has a significant front portico addition made by
local craftsman Gustavus Sedon around 1877.
Pleasant Grove, 4377 W. Main St. (80-25)
Pleasant Grove is significant for its well-
preserved late antebellum house and the
survival of several important outbuilding types
from the same period. The house, built ca. 1853,
is a brick I-house, with early Greek
Revival/late Federal style trim, most of which
remains intact. The most significant
outbuildings are a two-room brick slave house,
one of the very few surveyed in the county; a
brick smokehouse; and a brick springhouse. The
woodwork in the house was executed by
Gustavus Sedon, awell-known local joiner and
carpenter.
Nininger Home, 6103 Plantation Rd. (80-34)
The Nininger House, built ca. 1863, is a well-
preserved example of the larger mid-19th
century homes in Roanoke County. The house,
which is in excellent condition, retains most of
its original Greek Revival/late Federal style
trim. Several related outbuildings survive,
including a brick meat house, garage, and three
barns.
Gray-Flora House, 6113 Plantation Rd. (80-24)
The Gray-Flora house represents the type of
large brick home built in Roanoke County
during the mid-19th century. The brick I-house
retains much of its original interior and exterior
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integrity, in spite of recent remodeling into
apartments. Significant outbuildings include a
two-level log outbuildings with projecting roof,
a typical local design, and two later barns.
Dr. Gale House, 4909 Cave Spring Lane (80-10)
The Gale house illustrates the type of large
brick houses found among the county's more
prominent families in the mid-19th century.
The brick house, ca. 18b0-80, features most of its
original mantels and interior finish. Dr. Joseph
Gale, the original owner, founded the Lewis-
Gale Hospital in Roanoke. The present owners
are interested in National Register
designation.
The Gray House, 6615 Peters Creek Rd. (80-401)
The Gray House is one of the largest and most
stylish examples of the American Foursquare
dwelling in Roanoke County. The house reflects
some craftsman influences, with its sleeping
porch and and exterior detailing. The property
retains a high degree of integrity, with few
exterior or interior alterations.
5122 Old Virginia Spring Rd. (80-377)
This house is a rare Roanoke County example of
Tudor Revival domestic architecture, built in a
rural setting ca. 1920 -1940. The house features
a blend of stone and half-timbered frame
construction in an irregular plan, which
features a variety of porches and gables.
Situated in the woods, with a creek to the
north, this property illustrates the local trend
to build vacation and sometimes permanent
residences in rustic settings during the early
20th centuries.
Boxmont,1911 Mountain View Road (80-595)
Boxwood is an excellent example of a very
prosperous early 20th century Roanoke County
farm. The house, built in 1937, presents a large
and stylish example of the Colonial Revival
style. The site retains a high degree of
integrity with its gardens and related farm and
outbuildings, including a stable, tenant house,
two brick barns, and a shed barn, still in a rural
setting.
POTENTIAL HISTORIC DISTRICTS
Historic districts offer the opportunity to
register significant groupings of related historic
resources, which include a variety of resource
types and possible archaeological interest.
These proposed districts contain many
examples of typical vernacular building forms,
which gain greater significance when
considered in the broader historic and
architectural context. The recommended
districts included here cover resources from
many of the historic themes.
janee Drive
This proposed historic district would include a
cluster of approximately eight weekend
cottages in a rustic creek-side setting along
Janee Drive, in an area near Hanging Rock.
During the early twentieth century, many such
cottages were built as rural retreats, for
weekend homes or sometimes permanent
residences. This grouping of cottages is
significant for its intact setting and well-
preserved buildings.
Hollins College Historic District
The Hollins College Historic District, which
now includes the campus quadrangle, should be
extended to include approximately fifteen more
buildings in the surrounding neighborhood.
These structures, dating to the early 20th
century, are used for classrooms and residences.
Bonsack
The village of Bonsack includes a significant
grouping of twenty structures, including a wide
range of house types, churches, and commercial
structures. The Bonsack area was one of the
first to be settled in the county, quickly
becoming an important commercial center in the
county. A early woolen mill, built in 1822,
operated in Bonsack throughout much of the
19th century. The town prospered with the
railroad, which came through in 1852 and
established a depot here.
Wabun
The Wabun community illustrates the type of
small crossroads communities that evolved in
Roanoke County during the 19th century. This
example is located in one of the best such
collections of vernacular buildings in the
southwest part of the county. Wabun includes a
representative early twentieth century store, a
vernacular Queen Anne dwelling, and several
vernacular residences from the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries.
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Kingstown
Kingstown is significant as a little altered
example of a rural black community in Roanoke
County. Located northwest of Roanoke, the
community retains an excellent collection of
buildings, including several turn-of-the-century
dwellings; a church, rebuilt ca. 1909; and a
school house, ca. 1885.. These buildings reflect
the very common vernacular forms of their
period. Several descendents of original settlers
to the community still reside here.
FUTURE SURVEY
RECOMMENDATIONS
Early 20th Century Residential Structures
This survey identified 384 early 20th century
properties throughout the county, including
largely bungalows, foursquare, and other
vernacular dwellings. These buildings were
identified on the U.S.G.S. Quad maps and their
building types noted. Additional survey efforts
could record these buildings at the
reconnaissance level.
Farm Buildings Survey
Farm buildings are one of the most endangered
building types in the county with the rapid
development of Roanoke County and the
abandonment of its traditional agricultural
base. This particular survey effort documented
all standing agricultural buildings within the
survey area. More time should now be devoted
to surveying these resources at a more intensive
level. Representative and/or significant
examples of farm buildings should be recorded
through measured drawings, since many of
these will soon disappear.
Threatened Buildings
Many of the buildings recorded in the survey
are currently suffering from neglect, and will
soon be gone. Additional survey efforts should
document significant and/or typical structures,
such as 19th century log houses, at an intensive
level, including measured drawings. This will
preserve a record of these buildings for future
analysis of Roanoke County's architecture.
These efforts should also include those
buildings that are known to be in areas where
new development will occur.
Thematic Surveys
To better understand the cultural context of
many of the resources apart from the domestic
structures, the county might undertake more
intensive-level thematic surveys of specific
cultural resources. Such resources types might
include stores, schools, or churches, some of the
most common building types recorded in the
survey. Thematic surveys provide better
documentation of the development of these
resource types, leading to a study of how this
particular type evolved in Roanoke County.
Thematic surveys can also lead to thematic
National Register nominations, which is one
way to identify, recognize, and nominate more
typical, vernacular building types in the
county.
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
PLANNING
EDUCATION
Distribution of Survey Forms to
Property Owners
One of the first steps in educating the public
about the historic resources in Roanoke County .
is to let them know that they exist. It is
important to inform the owners of such
properties that their buildings are historic and
therefore a valuable part of the county's
history. This can be accomplished by mailing a
copy of the survey form to the appropriate
owner, whose address is listed on the form.
This educational process is contingent on the
computerization of the forms.
Technical Rehabilitation Brochures for
Property Owners
Along with informing the owners about the
importance of their building is educating them
about the technical maintenance of their
structures. Several key maintenance problems
were observed during the survey and need to be
addressed. These problems include
inappropriate remodeling, nearby new
development that encroaches upon the site,
improper care of original materials, the use of
artificial siding, and lack of maintenance.
Three common, improper remodeling practices
in the county are enlarging, reducing, or
changing openings; adding or remodeling
porches; and adding inappropriate additions.
County residents and property owners should be
informed about the proper maintenance of
historic materials. A few owners have sand
blasted the brick on their houses, which
destroys the protective, hard surface of the
masonry, allowing moisture to enter the bricks
and increasi.-~g deterioration. Another major
problem in the area is the use of synthetic
sidings, which have a different patina and
texture than historically used materials and
may cause the increased deterioration of the
original surface by entrapping moisture. Vinyl,
aluminum, asbestos, and asphalt sidings are
common synthetic materials that have been
used in the county.
Another threat to the county's historic
buildings in the area is lack of maintenance.
While this effects a number of residential
buildings, it is particularly a threat to farm
buildings and outbuildings. Because many
properties are no longer used for agricultural
purposes, farm outbuildings have often been left
to deteriorate or have been torn down. These
buildings are important to the heritage of this
historically agrarian county and therefore
should at least receive basic maintenance such
as roof repair and paint to protect them.
One way to inform the public about proper
maintenance to historic buildings is through
the development of technical rehabilitation
brochures. Prince William County has four
technical brochures prepared by Frazier
Associates that would serve as good models for
Roanoke County.
Develop Tour Brochures
Developing tour brochures would also inform
the public about the historic resources in the
county. These brochures could guide motorists
through the county, indicating National
Register buildings and sites, historic districts,
and other historically significant properties
visible from the road. Along with a map, the
brochure could have short significance
statements about the historic properties, much
of which could be drawn from the survey
records.
Audio-Visual Presentations on
Historic Resources
Audiovisual presentations on historic resources
are another useful technique for educating the
public about the value of the community's
historic resources Slide or video tape programs
could show the county's historic comdors or
demonstrate the variety of historical
development in different areas. The Roanoke
Valley Historical Society or the Roanoke
Valley Preservation Foundation may be
interested in funding and/or organizing such a
program.
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Several such programs, some developed during
the Sesquicentennial celebration aze currently
available through the Social Studies Office.
These programs are listed under'Resources for
Preservation" in this report. Anew program
has also been completed by the Roanoke
Regional Preservation Office. As part of this
survey project, Frazier Associates developed a
slide program on Roanoke County architecture
and the survey project.
Local Awards
Local awazds are good incentives for
architectural preservation. When a local
historical society or preservation organization
publicizes the special efforts of property
owners in protecting their historic resources, or
presents awards for good preservation
practices, it encourages other property owners
to follow these examples, while educating the
public about the importance of older structures.
Newspaper Article Series
A series of newspaper articles about the
historic resources in the county would
highlight the importance of the older
structures and help to keep preservation in the
minds of the county residents. The series of
articles could pertain to different themes such
as building styles and types, construction eras,
or technical maintenance of older buildings.
The new survey reports and photographs can be
used as background information for these
newspaper articles.
Heritage Education in the Schools
Heritage education in the schools is important
to develop children's interest about the history
and historic resources of their county. The
Preservation Alliance of Virginia sells a book
called the "Heritage Education Workbook,"
which describes different processes used for
educational preservation programs in the
schools. Because different school districts have
varying teaching techniques, it is important
that the individuals who develop the heritage
program work closely with the educators in the
county.
The Roanoke Regional Preservation Office has
been actively involved in promoting heritage
education throughout the ten-county area
which it serves. The RRPO offers teacher
workshops and heritage programs. At present,
the RRPO has developed a slide show entitled
the "Architectural History of Western
Virginia," which highlights the architectural
history of the region it serves. This program
has been designed for use in secondary schools
and for adult education programs.
PROTECTION
National Register Nominations
An important starting point in the protection of
the historic resources in the county is making
nominations to the National Register of
Historic Places for individual properties and
for historic districts. While this process still
allows owners to do what they want with their
properties, the National Register designation
recognizes the important resources in the
county. Once the importance of the structures is
recognized, the owner and local and state
governments have the incentive to protect this
heritage. Furthermore, the federal government
is required to investigate alternatives if any
federally funded or licensed project will have
an adverse impact on a property listed on the
National Register.
Zoning Study of Historic Sites for
Impact
Now that many historic sites have been
identified through the survey, it is very
beneficial to study the impact of the present
zoning on these properties. Several owners
have allowed inappropriate development on
their property such as commercial buildings or
subdivisions.
The zoning ideally should promote the
retention of the property and not allow
categories that would encourage destruction of
the integrity of the historic property. The
provisions of the zoning classification in a
historic district should assure that any new
construction site has similar lot size, building
height, and building size relative to the
existing historic properties in the district. The
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zoning classification of an individual property
should not allow incompatible uses such as
commercial construction or overly intense
development of a historical property. New
zoning classifications may need to be
established as a result of this study.
Local Historic Zoning Overlay
After the present zoning of historic sites has
been analyzed, it would be useful for the county
to consider creating a local historic zoning
overlay, which would provide special zoning
for historic properties and districts. State
enabling legislation exists to establish such an
overlay and several Virginia counties have
already enacted local ordinances. This form of
local protection normally sets up some type of
citizen board to oversee historic preservation
issues and programs in the county and may also
include a local design review board to oversee
changes to historic properties. This local board
could also establish acounty-wide listing of
local historic properties and sites important to
Roanoke County history.
Local Historic Resources Commission
The creation of a permanent Roanoke County
Historic Resources Commission to deal with
preservation issues would further help to
protect the historic resources in the area. This
commission could help implement the
previously mentioned recommendations for
planning, including deciding which sites and
areas should be included in any tour brochure,
instigating the development of technical
brochures, and approaching owners of more
significant properties and residents in
historically intact districts about the
advantages of having their resources listed on
the National Register of Historic Places.
Furthermore, the commission could also
establish a review board for historic districts
once they are nominated.
Easement Program
An easement program would give owners
another way to protect their historic resources.
The owner could donate a perpetual easement
(a restriction in the deed) to the local
government or a nonprofit organization, such as
RVPF. The agency would accept the easement
if it provided for the appropriate protection of
the property and would monitor the property to
insure compliance on a regular basis. By
donating certain development rights to the
agency in the easement, the owner may qualify
for certain tax benefits. An alternative scheme
would be for Roanoke County to purchase
easements from owners of historic properties.
Historic Site Entry into County
Information Base (GIS)
The historic sites that have been identified in
the survey process should be entered into the
County's Geographic Information System as it
is developed. This action will assure that the
historic status of a property is presented along
with the other information that is known about
the parcel when any rezoning is proposed.
Computerization of the survey forms will aide
in this process.
Public Properties Acquisition
The county could establish a program to acquire
historic properties for public purposes or for
tourist attractions. Such a program would help
protect the county's heritage when the resource
is threatened by demolition or neglect, and/or
if it is an extremely significant historical
resource. Local organizations might be willing
to help fund such projects and to create
endowments for their continued operations.
Conditional Zoning for Historic Sites
in Rezonings
When owners of historic properties apply for
rezonings, there is the opportunity to request a
variety of conditions if the rezoning is granted.
These conditions can be tailored to each request
and can be designed to encourage retaining and
preserving the integrity of the historic
property.
Preservation Strategies into the
County's Comprehensive Plan
Additional historic preservation strategies
should also be integrated into any future
comprehensive plan. The present
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comprehensive plan, which was written in
1985, has several recommendations regarding
preservation and a map that shows the
location of the historic sites known at that
time. Now .hat a comprehensive survey of
historic resources has been completed and their
locations are identified, the additional steps
listed in this report should be developed to
protect these sites. This can be accomplished
by incorporating the previously mentioned
planning recommendations into any future
comprehensive plan and in particular by
establishing a permanent Roanoke County
Historic Resources Commission.
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RESOURCES FOR
PRESERVATION
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The National Alliance of Preservation
Commissions
Hall of the States, Suite 332
444 North Capitol Street
Washington, D.C. 20001
(301) 663-6149
The National Park Service
Preservation Assistance Division
Technical Preservation Services
P.O. Box 37127
Washington, D.C. 20013-7127
(202) 343-9573
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 673-4000
The National Trust Mid-Atlantic Regional
Office
6401 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19144
(215)438-2886
STATE ORGANIZATIONS
The Preservation Alliance of Virginia
P.O. Box 1407
Staunton, Virginia 24401
(703) 886-4362
The Virginia Department of Historic Resources
221 Governor Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
(804) 786-3143
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS/
OFFICES/ COLLECTIONS
Roanoke Regional Preservation Office
1030 Penmar Avenue, SE
Roanoke, Virginia 24013
(703) 857-7585
The regional office of the Virginia Department
of Historic Resources serves a ten county area of
southwest Virginia
Roanoke Valley Historical Society
Roanoke Valley Historical Museum
Center in the Square
Roanoke, Virginia 24011
(703) 342-5770
Historical material includes a large photo
collection, papers and letters from the
Breckenridge and Deyerle families, and a
house file for the county.
Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation
P. O. Box 1558
Roanoke, Virginia 24007
(703) 342-9289
Mrs. Martha B. Boxley -Acting Director
Promotes the preservation of historic, natural,
and cultural resources of Roanoke Valley.
Roanoke City Library, Virginia Room
706 S. Jefferson Street
Roanoke, Virginia 24011
(703) 981-2073
Historic materials on Roanoke Valley include
books, manuscripts, photograph collections, and
older newspapers on microfilm.
Roanoke County Library
3131 Electric Road, S.W.
Roanoke, Virginia 24018
(703) 772-7507.
Historic materials on Roanoke Valley include
books, and limited vertical files.
Roanoke County Clerk's Office
Roanoke County Courthouse
305 East Main Street
Salem, Virginia 24153
(703) 387-6205.
Repository of official land records including
deeds, wills, and plats and the original WPA
historic survey forms.
Tony Whitwell
Hollins College
Roanoke, Virginia 24020
(703) 362-6617
Information on Roanoke County historic sites
collected by Mr. Whitwell and his students.
Blue Ridge Parkway
National Park Service
220 BBT Building
1 Pack Square
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Ashville, North Carolina 28801
(704) 259-0351
Contact Al Hess, Cultural Resource
Management Specialist
Jefferson National Forest
National Forest Service, Poff Building
210 Franklin Road
Roanoke, Virginia 24001
(703) 982-6284
Contact Mike Barber, Archaeologist.
Roanoke River Parkway Project Office
National Park Service
Vinton War Memorial
814 East Washington Avenue
Vinton, Virginia 24179
(703)345-3959
Contact Bob Hope, Resident Landscape
Architect
Virginia's Explore Park
The River Foundation
101 South Jefferson Street
Roanoke, Virginia 24011
(703) 345-1295
Contact Richard Burrow, Project Engineer
AUDIOVISUAL RESOURCES
Slides
"History of Roanoke County"
60 slides developed for the 1988
Sesquicentennial celebration.
"History of the Roanoke Valley"
70 slides with script on the valley since the
coming of the N &W Railroad in 1882.
"History of Education in Roanoke County,"
Slides with script on the history of education.
Videos
Sesquicentennial Documentary, produced by
WBRA.
Interviews with citizens of communities of
Roanoke County.
Sesquicentennial Minutes, produced by WBRA
Short history minutes, which have been aired
on TV during the sesquicentennial year.
SPECIAL NOTE: For further information about
these slide and video presentations contact:
Dr. Norma J. Peters, Social Studies Office
Roanoke County Schools
Administrative Offices
526 College Avenue
Salem, Virginia 24153
(703) 345-6470
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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY
ROANOKE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1991
NUMERICAL PROPERTY LIST
File No. Entry USGS 7.5 Quad
80-1 House, Route 115 Roanoke
80-2 given a Roanoke City number
80-3 Boxwood Summit Salem
80-4 Brillhart, Daniel, House (demolished) Glenvar
80-5 Brubaker House, 1745 Loch Haven Dr. Salem
80-6 Crystal Creek Dr. Houses Garden City
80-7 Cave Spring Methodist Church Bent Mountain
80-8 Cedar Bluff Elliston
80-9 Same as 80-112
80-10 Gale House (Old Dr. White Place) Bent Mountain
80-11 Garst Fort Salem
80-12 Grayholme House Roanoke
80-13 Richardson, John, House Roanoke
80-14 Homewood Garden City
80-15 Huff House, 5621 Plantation Rd. Roanoke
80-16 Catawba Rural Historic District Catawba/Glenvar
80-17 Josylvia Farm Roanoke
80-18 House (Bushong Place) Roanoke
80-19 Lynbraye Farm Bent Mountain
80-20 Unassigned
80-21 given a Salem number
80-22 Unassigned
80-23 Peters Creek Church of the Brethren Salem
80-24 Petty-Gray House Roanoke
80-25 Pleasant Grove Glenvar
80-26 Southview Roanoke
80-27 Starkey House (Speedwell) Bent Mountain
80-28 Tavern (Bower House) Roanoke
80-29 given a Salem number
80-30 Unassigned
80-31 Unassigned
80-32 Belle Grove (Johnson House) Roanoke
80-33 Richardson, Green, House Garden City
80-34 Nininger House, 6103 Plantation Rd. Roanoke
80-35 Gordon, Simeon, House Roanoke
80-36 Grounds, George, House Salem
80-37 East Dormitory, Hollins College Roanoke
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80-38 Main Building, Hollins College Roanoke
80-39 Same as 80-42
80-40 Stoner, Jacob, Spring House Stewartsville
80-41 Moomaw House Stewartsville
80-42 West Dormitory, Hollins College Roanoke
80-43 Log House
80-44 William Hall House File Missing
80-45 Roanoke Navigation
80-46 Barn Elliston
80-47 Barn Elliston
80-48 Barn Elliston
80-49 Barn with Hood Elliston
80-50 Barn with Fences Elliston
80-51 Cabin (Board-and-Batten) Elliston
80-52 Cabin (Board-and-Batten) Elliston
80-53 Cabin on Bottom Creek Elliston
80-54 Logan Place Elliston
80-55 Hollins College Quadrangle Roanoke
80-56 James Farm Stewartsville
80-57 Lower James Farm Stewartsville
80-58 House at Bonsack Stewartsville
80-59 Denton Cenotaph (Old Tombstone) Roanoke
80-60 6629 Pine Needle Dr. Garden City
80-61 D.F. Taylor House, Rt 2 Box 369 Garden City
80-62 7217 Pine Needle Dr. Garden City
80-63 7219 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-64 VDOT Structure #5 Garden City
80-65 7027 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-66 6720 Circle Creek Dr. Garden City
80-67 Circle Creek Dr. Garden City
80-68 6708 Circle Creek Dr. Garden City
80-69 6624 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-70 Harshbarger House (see 80-13) Glenvar
80-71 Sarver House Roanoke
80-72 Compton House Glenvar
80-73 The Catawba Sanatorium Catawba
80-74 thr u 80-90 VDOT Survey
80-74 j. E. Tribbett House, Rt. 116 Garden City
80-75 W. V. Turner House, Rt. 116 Garden City
80-76 Joe Chisholm House, Rt. 618 Roanoke
80-77 James Chisholm House, Highland Rd. Roanoke
80-78 Morgan House, off of Rt. 618 Roanoke
80-79 Abandoned Dwelling, Rt. 636 Stewartsville
80-80 Burkholder House, Rt. 651 Stewartsville
80-81 Thomas House, Rt. 651 Roanoke
80-82 Bush Home, 1730 Feather Rd. Stewartsville
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80-83 3672 Sterling Rd. Gazden City
80_84 H. F. Turner House, Sterling Rd. Gazden City
80-85 3610 Sterling Rd. Garden City
80-86 Brooks House, Rt. 666 Garden City
80.87 Abandoned house, Mayland Rd. Gazden City
80_gg Joe Helms House, Rt. 668 Gazden City
80-89 Dwelling, Rt. 749 Roanoke
80-90 House, Rt. 749 Roanoke
80-91 Riverside Bridge, Rt. 639 Elliston/Glenvar
80-92 Troutville Weigh Station, Rt. 81 Roanoke
80-93 Shotgun Dwelling, Franklin Ave. Roanoke
80-94 Frame House, Rt. 634 Stewartsville
80-95 Niagara Power Station/Dam Roanoke
80-96 Preston House Roanoke
80-97 Log Cabin, Route 618 Hardy
80-98 Frame House, Rt 825 Roanoke
80-99 Frame Cabin, Rt. 618 Hardy
80-100 Dickerson House, Rt. 618 Hardy
80-101 House, Blacksburg Rd. Catawba
80-102 McConkey Farm Glenvar
80-103 Woods-Morehead Farm Glenvar
80-104 Spessard School Glenvar
80-105 Barnett-Starkey Farm Glenvar
80-106 Lawson Farm Glenvar
80-107 Goodwin, John Farm Glenvar
80-108 Doosing-Huffman Farm Glenvar
80-109 Not yet surveyed?
80-110
Spessard Cemetery Glenvar
80-111 Sessler House Glenvar
80-112 Doosing-McNeil Farm Glenvar
80-113 McHenry Family Farm Glenvar
80-114 Gordon-Bennett Farm Glenvar
80-115 Bennett House Glenvar
80-116 John-Custer Farm Glenvar
80-117 Garman, Peter House Glenvar
80-118 Garman Barn Glenvar
80-119 Garman Farm Glenvar
80-120 John Family Farm Glenvar
80-121 John, John House Glenvar
80-122 Johnsville Church Glenvar
80-123 Garman Family Farm Glenvar
McDonalds Mill
80-124 Layman Family Farm McDonalds Mill
80-125 Eakin, Samuel House McDonalds Mill
80-126 Eakin Farm
80-127 Brunk Family Farm Glenvar
80-128 Gravel Hill School Glenvar
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80-129 Crawford-Eakin Farm McDonalds Mill
80-130 John-Shepperd Farm Glenvar
80-131 Alls Cemetery McDonalds Mill
80-132 All, Archie Wilson House McDonalds Mill
80-133 not yet surveyed?
80-134 Beard Cemetery Glenvar
80-135 Beard House Glenvar
80-136 Brillhart Family House Glenvar
80-137 House (Brush Mountain) Glenvar
80-138 Brillhart Cemetery Glenvar
80-139 Brillhart farm Glenvar
80-140 Shiloh Methodist Church Glenvar
80-141 Hall, Alfred House Glenvar
80-142 Bud Custer House Glenvar
80-143 Kipps House Glenvar
80-144 Wright Family Farm Glenvar
80-145 House, Bending Oak Dr. Glenvar
80-146 Brillhart Farm Glenvar
80-147 Custer Farm Glenvar
80-148 Brillhart-Hall Farm Glenvar
80-149 Grisco Farm Glenvar
80-150 School, Damewood Dr. Glenvar
80-151 House, Damewood Dr. Glenvar
80-152 House, Damewood Dr. Glenvar
80-153 Hall Family Farm Glenvar
80-154 Damewood, Festus Farm Glenvar
80-155 Cemetery (Damewood Dr.) Glenvar
80-156 Damewood Farm Glenvar
80-157 Barn (Trout Creek) Glenvar
80-158 Taylor, N.E. House Glenvar
80-159 Garman, John H. House Glenvar
80-160 Alls, James H. House Glenvar
80-161 Alls, H. Ross House Glenvar
80-162 Custer Cemetery Glenvar
80-163 Wright Farm Glenvar
80-164 Wright, Chester House Glenvar
80-165 House, (Trout Creek) Glenvar
80-166 Garman, jim Farm Glenvar
80-167 House, Route 785 Glenvar
80-168 6091 Two Ford Rd. Bent Mountain
80-169 5509 S. Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-170 5812 Ran Lynn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-171 Henry Cemetery, Corntassel Ln. Bent Mountain
80-172 6895 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-173 Kittinger Cemetery, Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-174 7916 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
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80-175 Eastnor, Hollins College Roanoke
80-176 Melvern Hall, Hollins College Roanoke
80-177 Barbee House, Hollins College Roanoke
80-178 Art Studio, Hollins College Roanoke
80-179 Duchouquet Cottage, Hollins College Roanoke
80-180 Rose Hill, Hollins College Roanoke
80-181 Maison Francaise, Hollins College Roanoke
80-182 Art Annex/Theatre, Hollins College Roanoke
80-183 Pleasants Hall, Hollins College Roanoke
80-184 Sundusky, Hollins College Roanoke
80-185 Rathhaus, Hollins College Roanoke
80-186 Carvin House, Hollins College Roanoke
80-187 Presser Hall, Hollins College Roanoke
80-188 Tayloe Gym, Hollins College Roanoke
80-189 Springhouse, Hollins College Roanoke
80-190 Kay's Cabin, 8031? Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-191 2033 Timberview Rd. Salem
80-192 2020 Timberview Rd. Salem
80-193 2974 Forest Acre Trail Salem
80-194 3104 Forest Acre Trail Salem
80-195 3226 Carvins Cove Rd. Salem
80-196 3404 Carvins Cove Rd. Salem
80-197 3973 Carterdell Rd. Catawba
80-198 3912 Carterdell Rd. Catawba
80-199 3518 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-200 1297? Skyview Rd. Salem
80-201 1115 Skyview Rd. Salem
80-202 1114 Skyview Rd. Salem
80-203 2733 Gun Springs Rd. Salem
80-204 741 Lee Rd. Glenvar
80-205 5260 Getty Ln. Elliston
80-206 5256 Getty Ln. Elliston
80-207 5293 Getty Ln. Elliston
80-208 5250 Getty Ln. Elliston
80-209 5860 Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-210 5802 Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-211 5263 Getty Ln. Elliston
80-212 4143 W. Main St. Salem
80-213 4743 W. River Rd Elliston
80-214 4679 W. River Rd. Elliston
80-215 5168 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-216 Store, 5167? Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-217 5628 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-218 Bend Union Chapel, Harborwood Rd. Elliston
80-219 5625 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-220 5812 Foster Ln. Elliston
97
80-221 5784 Foster Ln. Elliston
80-222 6210 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-223 6107 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-224 6111 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-225 Roanoke Bypass, Rt. 220
80-226 Brown-Acres House Roanoke
80-227 Roanoke By-Pass, Rt. 220
80-228 Brambaugh House, 3162 Tomaranne Dr. Bent Mountain
80-229 Farm, near McAfee Knob Catawba
80-230 Armstrong-Moses Farm Catawba
80-231 George W. Emmerson House Catawba
80-232 Bud Duffy House Catawba
80-233 George Bennett House Catawba
80-234 W. E. Thomas Barn Catawba
80-235 Thomas House Catawba
80-236 Lemon Farm Catawba
80-237 Thomas-Anderson Farm Catawba
80-238 Ralph Lee House Catawba
80-239 Mountain View Baptist Church Catawba
80-240 Farm, Rt. 779 Catawba
80-241 Cooper House Catawba
80-242 Robert Lee House Catawba
80-243 Morgan Cemetery Catawba
80-244 Catawba Cemetery Catawba
80-245 Barn, Rt. 779 Catawba
80-246 Bill Lewis House Catawba
80-247 Samuel Phillips House Catawba
80-248 Lula Garst House Catawba
80-249 Bridge, Old Rt. 311 Catawba
80-250 Catawba School (white) Catawba
80-251 Catawba United Methodist Church Catawba
80-252 Fringer House Catawba
80-253 House, Rt. 779 Catawba
80-254 Catawba Post Office Catawba
80-255 Nelson Barnett House Catawba
80-256 John Payne House Catawba
80-257 Keffer House Catawba
80-258 Catawba Mercantile Catawba
80-259 Jerry Morgan Farm Catawba
80-260 Spessard-Porter House Catawba
80-261 Jesse Bratton House Catawba
80-262 Catawba School (black) Catawba
80-263 Russell H. Blaney House Looney
80-264 First Baptist Church of Catawba Looney
80-265 Wilson-Brizendine House Looney
80-266 House, Rt. 311 Catawba
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80-267 Charles Henderson House Glenvar
80-268 Taylor House Glenvar
80-269 Huffman-Damewood Farm Glenvar
80-270 John Damewood House Glenvar
80-271 Irvin Caldwell House Catawba
80-272 McPherson House Catawba
80-273 Grubbs House Glenvar
80-274 Rose House Looney
80-275 Ball House Catawba
80-276 Catawba Grocery Looney
80-280 Crystal Creek Dr. Houses Bent Mountain
80-286 Hofawger House
80-277 Store, Hanging Rock
80-278 Bennett Springs
80-279 Catawba Rural Historic District
80-280-285 numbers not used
80-286 Hofawger House (demolished)
80-287 VDOT survey, Route 115
80-288 Cave Spring Bethel Church Bent Mountain
80-289 7759 Poage Valley Road Ext. Bent Mountain
80-290 121 Poage Valley Road Ext. Bent Mountain
80-291 Bellvue Church, 5568 Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-292 Bellvue Farm, 5648 Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-293 5661 Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-294 5403 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-295 5320 Spencer Drive Bent Mountain
80-296 6400 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-297 6981 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-298 6973 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-299 6831-6845 Landmark Circle Bent Mountain
80-300 Kittingers Chapel, Landmark Circle Bent Mountain
80-301 7184 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-302 7429 Moonlight Lane Bent Mountain
80-303 8210 Martins Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-304 8300 Martins Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-305 8439 Martins Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-306 8550 Martins Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-307 6219 Poage Valley Rd. Bent Mountain
80-308 5678 South Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-309 6104 Mount Chestnut Rd. Bent Mountain
80-310 6619 Mount Chestnut Rd. Bent Mountain
80-311 6840 Ivy Mountain Dr. Bent Mountain
80-312 Owens House, 6606 Ivy Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-313 5109 Twelve O'clock Knob Rd. Bent Mountain
80-314 4429 Farm Hill Dr. Bent Mountain
80-315 Brown Cottage, 5427 Ridgelea Rd. Bent Mountain
99
80-316 7793 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-317 7798 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-318 5808 Kirk Lane Bent Mountain
80-319 5928 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-320 6113 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-321 10325 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-322 Bent Mountain Elem., 10148 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-323 10106 Bottom Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-324 9809 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-325 9207 Poor Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-326 Thompson Grove Church, Bent Mtn. Rd. Bent Mountain
80-327 9525 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-328 Store, 9526 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-329 6463 Poage Valley Rd. Bent Mountain
80-330 6974 Shaver Rd. Bent Mountain
80-331 10112 Sling Gap Rd. Bent Mountain
80-332 10118 Sling Gap Rd. Bent Mountain
80-333 8432 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
80-334 5191 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-335 7112 Dawnwood Rd. Bent Mountain
80-336 7690 Fallwell Lane Bent Mountain
80-337 6853 Poage Valley Rd. Bent Mountain
80-338 7201 Poage Valley Rd. Bent Mountain
80-339 6944 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-340 3801 Penn Forest Blvd. Bent Mountain
80-341 6770 Marigold Circle Garden City
80-342 6566 Mayo Dr. Garden City
80-343 8207 Starlight Lane Garden City
80-344 8149 Starlight Lane Garden City
80-345 7798 Starlight Lane Garden City
80-346 7819 Hemlock Ave. Garden City
80-347 7700 Hemlock Ave. Garden City
80-348 Starkey Elem. Sch., 6426 Merriman Rd. Garden City
80-349 6422 Ran Lynn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-350 3027 McVitty Rd. Bent Mountain
80-351 2916 McVitty Rd. Bent Mountain
80-352 3121? McVitty Rd. Bent Mountain
80-353 4909 Cave Spring Ln. Bent Mountain
80-354 5988 Grandin Rd. Bent Mountain
80-355 6837 Merriman Rd. Bent Mountain
80-356 8344 Boones Chapel Rd. Garden City
80-357 8408 Boones Chapel Rd. Garden City
80-358 7480 Willow Branch Rd. Garden City
80-359 Franklin and Willow Br. Rds. Garden City
80-360 5413 Indian Grave Rd. Garden City
80-361 4062 Pitzer Rd. Garden City
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80-362 7924 Spotswood Dr. Garden City
80-363 6869 Pine Needle Dr. Garden City
80-364 8442? Holly Tree Dr. Garden City
80-365 7920 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-366 5697 Hillside Rd. Garden City
80-367 8037? Mayland Rd. Garden City
80-368 4572 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-369 4809 Goodman Rd. Garden City
80-370 Mill, 3672 Sterling Rd. Garden City
80-371 3713 Wispering Lane Garden City
80-372 4065 Aerospace Rd. Garden City
80-373 4852 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-374 5250 Old Virginia Spring Rd. Garden City
80-375 5223 Old Virginia Spring Rd. Garden City
80-376 5039 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-377 5122 Old Virginia Spring Rd. Garden City
80-378 Barn, 5631 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-379 7466? Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-380 6624 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-381 6332 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-382 5654 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-383 3169 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-384 2702 Jae Valley Rd. Garden City
80-385 2697 Sunnyvale St. Garden City
80-386 3250 Randall Dr. Garden City
80-387 Store, Randall Dr. & Rutrough Rd. Garden City
80-388 3371 Randall Dr. Garden City
80-389 6933 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-390 Ebenezer Baptist Church, 7045 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-391 School, 7047 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-392 6520 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-393 5213 Lois Lane Roanoke
80-394 5249 Lois Lane Roanoke
80-395 8160 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-396 7790 Lila Dr. Roanoke
80-397 8022? France Dr. Roanoke
80-398 8064 Bobby Dr. Roanoke
80-399 7617 Barrens Rd. Roanoke
80-400 6044 Peters Creek Rd. Roanoke
80-401 6615 Peters Creek Rd. Roanoke
80-402 6621 Peters Creek Rd. Roanoke
80-403 743 Dexter Rd. Roanoke
80-404 7217 LeMarre Dr. Roanoke
80-405 Summerdean springhouse, LeMarre Dr. Roanoke
80-406 5524 Old Mountain Rd. Roanoke
80-407 7148 Old Mountain Rd. Roanoke
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80-408 7223 Old Mountain Rd.
80-409 Office, 7223 Old Mountain Rd.
80-410 7239 Old Mountain Rd.
80-411 7421 Shadwell Dr.
80-412 7811 Shadwell Dr.
80-413 7126 Ould Dr.
80-414 6434 Plantation Rd.
80-415 7971 Williamson Rd.
80-416 6307 Pinetree Lane
80-417 5415 Plantation Rd.
80-418 3891 Carson Rd.
80-419 3727 Challenger Ave.
80-420 4017 Challenger Ave.
80-421 4065 Challenger Ave.
80-422 2401 E. Ruritan Rd.
80-423 2405 E. Ruritan Rd.
80-424 2824 E. Ruritan Rd.
80-425 1602 W. Ruritan Rd.
80-426 3768 Challenger Ave.
80-427 5470 Crumbpacker Dr.
80-428 1480 Beechwood Dr.
80-429 2148 Mountain View Rd.
80-430 5071 Cove Rd.
80-431 8177 Wood Haven Rd.
80-432 2827 Neil Dr.
80-433 2716? Peters Creek Rd.
80-434 2253 Janee Dr.
80-435 2247 Janee Dr.
80-436 2211 Janee Dr.
80-437 1577 Dalmation Dr.
80-438 1478 Hearth Lane
80-439 7428 Pitzer Rd.
80-440 4670 Brookridge Rd.
80-441 5581 Bradshaw Rd.
80-4.42 8072 Bradshaw Rd.
80-443 7917 Bradshaw Rd.
80_q~ 7732 Bradshaw Rd.
80-445 4431 Alleghany Dr.
80-446 2920 Green Hill Dr.
80-447 2632 Bluff Rd.
80-448 2838 Highland Rd.
80-449 2824 Highland Rd.
80-450 3647 Rutrough Rd.
80-451 4496 Bonsack Rd.
80-452 4548-4550 Bonsack Rd.
80-453 4602 Bonsack Rd.
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80-454 4529 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-455 4787 Glade Creek Rd. Stewartsville
80-456 4854 Sidetrack Rd. Stewartsville
80-457 4822 Sidetrack Rd. Stewartsville
80-458 4830 Sidetrack Rd. Stewartsville
80-459 4819 Glade Creek Rd. Stewartsville
80-460 4860 Glade Creek Rd., barn Stewartsville
80-461 4948 Glade Creek Rd. Stewartsville
80-462 4860 Glade Creek Rd. Stewartsville
80-463 4774 Pioneer Dr. Stewartsville
80-464 4738 Glade Creek Rd. Stewartsville
80-465 4679 Layman Rd. Stewartsville
80-466 4616 Layman Rd. Stewartsville
80-467 4528 Layman Rd. Stewartsville
80-468 3065 Powell Dr. Salem
80-469 2895 Creekside Dr. Salem
80-470 2798 Harborwood Rd. Salem
80-471 3104 Harborwood Rd. Salem
80-472 3554 Harborwood Rd. Salem
80-473 5866 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-474 3387 Harborwood Rd. Salem
80-475 4968 Dan Robin Rd. Glenvar
80-476 5538 Pleasant Run Dr. Glenvar
80-477 Guest House, Hollins College Roanoke
80-478 Big Hill Baptist Church, 5380 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-479 4506 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-480 6419 Meacham Rd. Glenvar
80-481 5235 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-482 4911 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-483 5558 West River Rd. Elliston
80-484 5149 Beason Rd. Glenvar
80-485 7916 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-486 9605 Patterson Dr. Check
80-487 10721 Bent Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-488 8566 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-489 8215 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-490 8701 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-491 8315 Willett Ln. Elliston
80-492 9696 Tinsley Ln. Bent Mountain
80-493 9970 Tinsley Ln. Bent Mountain
80-494 10808 Bottom Creek Rd. Elliston
80-495 11082 Mountain Top Dr. Elliston
80-496 11018 Bent Mountain Rd. Check
80-497 11010 Bent Mountain Rd. Check
80-498 11005 Bent Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-499 11467 Bottom Creek Rd. Elliston
103
80-500 11558 Bottom Creek Rd. Elliston
80-501 6874 Landmark Circle Bent Mountain
80-502 1170? Bottom Creek Ln. Elliston
80-503 9428 Patterson Dr. Check
80-504 Christo Church, 9512 Patterson Dr.
80-505
9548 Patterson Dr. Check
80-506 9716 King Brothers Rd. Check
80-507 6118 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-508 5862? Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-509 3510 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-510 5672 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-511 5408 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-512 5255 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-513 4348 Rutrough Rd. Hardy
80-514 4328 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-515 5652 Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-516 7388 Cove Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-517 Mason Creek Bridge, Dutch Oven Rd. Salem
80-518 2359 Catawba Valley Dr. Salem
80-519 2277 Janee Dr. Salem
80-520 2239 Janee Dr. Salem
80-521 2215 Janee Dr. Salem
Bent Mountain
80-522 6512 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-523 6547 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-524 6542 Old Mill Rd.
7910 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-525
80-526 8206 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-527 10433? Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-528 10402 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-529 10632 Bent Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-530 10793 Bent Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-531 3324 Bennett Springs Rd. Salem
80-532 3106 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-533 3280 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-534 3341 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-535 3608 Old Catawba Rd. Salem
80-536 3731 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-537 2543 Catawba Valley Dr. Salem
80-538 4244 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-539 4646 Craighead Ln. Salem
80-540 4940 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-541 8853 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
80-542 8681 Sinker Ln. Glenvar
80-543 8308 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
80-544 8241 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
80-545 7578 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
104
80-546 4002 Allegany Dr. Glenvar
80-547 1083 Joe Carrol Rd. Glenvar .
80_~g 4215 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-549 4929 Stanley Farm Rd. Glenvar
80-550 4968 Fort Lewis Church Rd. Glenvar
80-551 4958 Glenvar Heights Blvd. Glenvar
80-552 5753 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-553 5724 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-554 5817 Pleasant Run Rd. Glenvar
80-555 5812 Viewpoint Ave. Glenvar
80-556 4800 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-557 4754 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-558 4814 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-559 5248 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-560 3115 W. Main St. Salem
80-561 6204 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-562 5643 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-563 4696 Cunningham Rd. Glenvar
80-564 N&W Railroad Bridge, Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-565 4665 W. River Rd. Elliston
80-566 3366 Carvins Cove Rd. Salem
80-567 3378 Carvins Cove Rd. Salem
80-568 5176 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-569 5669 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
80-570 5725 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
80-571 6071 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
80-572 6487 Bradshaw Rd. Glenvar
80-573 3170 W. Main St. Salem
80-574 4506 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-575 4857 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-576 4455 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-577 4784 Yateman Ln. Elliston
80-578 Goodwins Church, 5791 W. River Rd. Elliston
80-579 6197 Peaceful Dr. Elliston
80-580 Little Hope Church, Cove Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-581 6960 Cove Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-582 6418 Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-583 2164 Wildwood Rd. Salem
80-584 1567 Richland Hills Dr. Salem
80-585 1748 Richland Hills Dr. Salem
80-586 1253 Goodwin Ave. Salem
80-587 1255 Goodwin Ave. Salem
80-588 Bridge, Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-589 3882? Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-590 3914 Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-591 Store, 3977 Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
105
80-592 House, 3977 Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-593 3988 Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-594 1730 Feather Rd. Stewartsville
80-595 1911 Mountain View Rd. Stewartsville
80-596 1909 Mountain View Rd. Stewartsville
80-597 1826 Mountain View Rd. Stewartsville
80-598 Boones Chapel, 8195 Boones Chapel Rd. Garden City
80-599 8275 Starlight Lane Garden City
80-600 8352 Holly Tree Dr. Garden City
80-601 7468 Willow Branch Rd. Garden City
80-602 6874 Hofawger Rd. Garden City
80-603 5992 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-604 5922 Brethren Rd. Garden City
80-605 5202 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-606 5512 Yellow Mountain Rd. Garden City
80-607 5376 Yellow Mountain Rd. Garden City
80-608 4484 Yellow Mountain Rd. Garden City
80-609 4591 Goodman Rd. Garden City
80-610 4601 Goodman Rd. Garden City
80-611 4163 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-612 3465 Jae Valley Rd. Garden City
80-613 3019 Rutrough Rd. Garden City
80-614 3017 Ivyland Rd. Garden City
80-615 3218 Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-616 3687? Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-617 Token Tabernacle, 4520 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-618 Tabernacle of Love, 4535 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-619 4539 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-620 3687 Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-621 4038 Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-622 2302 Rutrough Rd. Garden City
80-623 6810 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-624 6920 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-625 6909 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-626 8176 Peters Creek Rd. Roanoke
VDOT survey (Garden City, Roanoke, Stewartsville)
106
VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY
ROANOKE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1991
ALPHABETICAL PROPERTY LIST
File No. Entrv USGS 7.5 Quad
80-79 Abandoned Dwelling, Rt. 636 Stewartsville
80-372 4065 Aerospace Rd. Garden City
80-132 All, Archie Wilson House McDonalds Mill
80-546 4002 Allegany Dr. Glenvar
80-445 4431 Alleghany Dr. Glenvar
80-131 Alls Cemetery McDonalds Mill
80-161 Alls, H. Ross House Glenvar
80-160 Alls, James H. House Glenvar
80-230 Armstrong-Moses Farm Catawba
80-275 Ball House Catawba
80-383 3169 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-611 4163 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-368 4572 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-373 4852 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-376 5039 Bandy Rd. Gazden City
80-382 5654 Bandy Rd. Garden City
80-378 5631 Bandy Rd., barn Garden City
80-46 Barn Elliston
80-47 Barn Elliston
80-48 Barn Elliston
80-50 Barn with Fences Elliston
80-49 Barn with Hood Elliston
80-245 Barn, Rt. 779 Catawba
80-105 Barnett-Starkey Farm Glenvar
80-399 7617 Barrens Rd. Roanoke
80-134 Beard Cemetery Glenvar
80-135 Beard House Glenvar
80-484 5149 Beason Rd.
80-428 1480 Beechwood Dr. Stewartsville
80-32 Belle Grove (Johnson House) Roanoke
80-291 Bellvue Church, 5568 Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-292 Bellvue Fazm, 5648 Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-218 Bend Union Chapel, Harborwood Rd. Elliston
80-145 Bending Oak Dr., House Glenvar
80-115 Bennett House Glenvar
80-233 Bennett, George, House Catawba
80-278 Bennett Springs Salem
107
80-439 7428 Pitzer Rd. Hazdy
80-531 3324 Bennett Springs Rd. Salem
80-322 Bent Mountain Elem., 10148 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-334 5191 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-294 5403 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-319 5928 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-320 6113 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-296 6400 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-339 6944 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-298 6973 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-297 6981 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-316 7793 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-317 7798 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-525 7910 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent. Mountain
80-526 8206 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-528 10402 Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-527 10433? Bent Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-529 10632 Bent Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-530 10793 Bent Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-498 11005 Bent Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-497 11010 Bent Mountain Rd. Check
80-496 11018 Bent Mountain Rd. Check
80-246 Bill Lewis House Catawba
80-101 Blacksburg Rd., House Catawba
80-447 2632 Bluff Rd. Roanoke
80-398 8064 Bobby Dr. Roanoke
80-451 4496 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-617 Token Tabernacle, 4520 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-454 4529 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-618 Tabernacle of Love, 4535 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-619 4539 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-452 4548-4550 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-453 4602 Bonsack Rd. Stewartsville
80-58 House at Bonsack Stewartsville
80-598 Boones Chapel, 8195 Boones Chapel Rd. Garden City
80-356 8344 Boones Chapel Rd. Garden City
80-357 8408 Boones Chapel Rd. Garden City
80-502 1170? Bottom Creek Ln. Elliston
80-323 10106 Bottom Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-494 10808 Bottom Creek Rd. Elliston
80-499 11467 Bottom Creek Rd. Elliston
80-500 11558 Bottom Creek Rd. Elliston
80-3 Boxwood Summit Salem
80-82 Bush, Home, 1730 Feather Rd. Stewartsville
80-534 3341 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
80-532 3106 Bradshaw Rd. Salem
108
80-533
80-199
80-536
80-538
80-540
80-568
80-441
80-569
80-570
80-571
80-572
80-545
80-444
80-443
80-442
80-544
80-543
80-333
80-541
80-604
80-249
80-138
80-4
80-136
80-139
80-146
80-148
80-226
80-228
80-86
80-315
80-5
80-127
80-137
80-142
80-232
80-18
80-80
80-51
80-52
80-53
80-271
80-418
80-198
80-197
80-195
3280 Bradshaw Rd.
3518 Bradshaw Rd.
3731 Bradshaw Rd.
4244 Bradshaw Rd.
4940 Bradshaw Rd.
5176 Bradshaw Rd.
5581 Bradshaw Rd.
5669 Bradshaw Rd.
5725 Bradshaw Rd.
6071 Bradshaw Rd.
6487 Bradshaw Rd.
7578 Bradshaw Rd.
7732 Bradshaw Rd.
7917 Bradshaw Rd.
8072 Bradshaw Rd.
8241 Bradshaw Rd.
8308 Bradshaw Rd.
8432 Bradshaw Rd.
8853 Bradshaw Rd.
5922 Brethren Rd.
Bridge, Old Rt. 311
Brillhart Cemetery
Brillhart, Daniel, House
Brillhart Family House
Brillhart Farm
Brillhart Farm
Brillhart-Hall Farm
(demolished)
Brown-Acres House (same as 80-402)
Brambaugh House, 3162 Tomaranne Dr.
Brooks House, Rt. 666
Brown Cottage, 5427 Ridgelea Rd.
Brubaker House, 1745 Loch Haven Dr.
Brunk Family Farm
House (Brush Mountain)
Bud Custer House
Bud Duffy House
House (Bushong Place)
Burkholder House, Rt. 651
Cabin (Board-and-Batten)
Cabin (Board-and-Batten)
Cabin on Bottom Creek
Caldwell, Irvin House
3891 Carson Rd.
3912 Carterdell Rd.
3973 Carterdell Rd.
3226 Carvins Cove Rd.
Salem
Salem
Salem
Salem
Salem
Salem
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Garden City
Catawba
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Roanoke
Bent Mountain
Garden City
Bent Mountain
Salem
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Catawba
Roanoke
Stewartsville
Elliston
Elliston
Elliston
Catawba
Roanoke
Catawba
Catawba
Salem
109
80-566 3366 Carvins Cove Rd. Salem
80-567 3378 Carvins Cove Rd. Salem
80-196 3404 Carvins Cove Rd. Salem
80-244 Catawba Cemetery Catawba
80-276 Catawba Grocery Looney
80-258 Catawba Mercantile Catawba
80-16 Catawba Rural Historic District
80-254 Catawba Post Office Catawba
80-73 The Catawba Sanatorium
80-279 Catawba Rural Historic District
80-262 Catawba School (black) Catawba
80-250 Catawba School (white) Catawba
80-251 Catawba United Methodist Church Catawba
80-518 2359 Catawba Valley Dr. Salem
80-537 2543 Catawba Valley Dr. Salem
80-288 Cave Spring Bethel Church Bent Mountain
80=353 4909 Cave Spring Ln. Bent Mountain
80-7 Cave Spring Methodist Church Bent Mountain
80-8 Cedar Bluff Elliston
80-419 3727 Challenger Ave. Roanoke
80-426 3768 Challenger Ave. Roanoke
80-420 4017 Challenger Ave. Roanoke
80-421 4065 Challenger Ave. Roanoke
80-267 Charles Henderson House Glenvar
80-77 Chisholm, James, House, Highland Rd. Roanoke
80-76 Chisholm, Joe, House, Rt. 618 Roanoke
80-67 Circle Creek Dr. Garden City
80-68 6708 Circle Creek Dr. Garden City
80-66 6720 Circle Creek Dr. Garden City
80-72 Compton House Glenvar
80-241 Cooper House Catawba
80-430 5071 Cove Rd. Salem
80-581 6960 Cove Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-516 7388 Cove Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-580 Little Hope Church, Cove Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-539 4646 Craighead Ln. Salem
80-129 Crawford-Eakin Farm McDonalds Mill
80-469 2895 Creekside Dr. Salem
80-427 5470 Crumbpacker Dr. Roanoke
80-6 Crystal Creek Dr. Houses Garden City
80-563 4696 Cunningham Rd. Glenvar
80-162 Custer Cemetery Glenvar
80-147 Custer Farm Glenvar
80-437 1577 Dalmation Dr. Salem
80-155 Damewood Dr., Cemetery Glenvar
80-156 Damewood Farm Glenvar
110
80-151 Damewood Dr., House Glenvar
80-152 Damewood Dr., House Glenvar
80-150 Damewood Dr., School Glenvar
80-154 Damewood, Festus Farm Glenvar
80-270 Damewood, John House Glenvar
80-475 4968 Dan Robin Rd. Glenvar
80-335 7112 Dawnwood Rd. Bent Mountain
80-59 Denton Cenotaph (Old Tombstone) Roanoke
80-403 743 Dexter Rd. Roanoke
80-100 Dickerson House ~'dY
80-108 Doosing-Huffman Farm Glenvar
80-112 Doosing-McNeil Farm Glenvar
80-515 5652 Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-210 5802 Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-209 5860 Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-582 6418 Dry Hollow Rd. Elliston
80-517 Mason Creek Bridge, Dutch Oven Rd. Salem
80-126 Eakin Farm McDonalds Mill
80-125 Eakin, Samuel House McDonalds Mill
80-37 East Dormitory, Hollins College Roanoke
80-231 Emmerson, George W., House Catawba
80-336 7690 Fallwell Lane Bent Mountain
80-229 Farm, near McAfee Knob Catawba
80-240 Farm, Rt. 779 Catawba
80-314 4429 Farm Hill Dr. Bent Mountain
80-594 1730 Feather Rd. Stewartsville
80-264 First Baptist Church of Catawba Looney
80-550 4968 Fort Lewis Church Rd. Glenvar
80-193 2974 Forest Acre Trail Salem
80-194 3104 Forest Acre Trail Salem
80-221 5784 Foster Ln. Elliston
80-220 5812 Foster Ln. Elliston
80-99 Frame Cabin, Rt. 618 Hardy
80-89 Frame Dwelling, Rt. 749 Roanoke
80-94 Frame House, Rt. 634 Stewartsville
80-90 Frame House, Rt. 749 Roanoke
80-98 Frame House, Rt 825 Roanoke
80-397 8022? France Dr. Roanoke
80-605 5202 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-603 5992 Frank'..in Rd. Gazden City
80-381 6332 Franklin Rd. Gazden City
80-380 6624 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-69 6624 Franklin Rd. Gazden City
80-65 7027 Franklin Rd. Gazden City
80-63 7219 Franklin Rd. Garden City
80-379 7466? Franklin Rd. Garden City
111
80-365
80-93
80-359
80-252
80-10
80-118
80-123
80-119
80-166
80-159
80-117
80-11
80-208
80-206
80-205
80-211
80-207
80-464
80-455
80-459
80-462
80-460
80-461
80-551
80-609
80-610
80-369
80-586
80-587
80-107
80-114
80-35
80-354
80-128
80-12
80-446
7920 Franklin Rd.
Dwelling, Franklin Rd.
Franklin and Willow Br. Rds.
Fringer House
Gale House (Old Dr. White Place)
Garman Barn
Garman Family Farm
Garman Farm
Garman, jim Farm
Garman, john H. House
Garman, Peter House
Garst Fort
5250 Getty Ln.
5256 Getty Ln.
5260 Getty Ln.
5263 Getty Ln.
5293 Getty Ln.
4738 Glade Creek Rd.
4787 Glade Creek Rd.
4819 Glade Creek Rd.
4860 Glade Creek Rd.
4860 Glade Creek Rd.,
4948 Glade Creek Rd.
4958 Glenvar Heights
4591 Goodman Rd.
4601 Goodman Rd.
4809 Goodman Rd.
1253 Goodwin Ave.
1255 Goodwin Ave.
barn
Blvd.
Goodwin, John Farm
Gordon-Bennett Farm
Gordon, Simeon, House
5988 Grandin Rd.
Gravel Hill School
Grayholme House
2920 Green Hill Dr.
80-149 Grisco Farm
80-36 Grounds, George, House
80-273 Grubbs House
80-203 2733 Gun Springs Rd.
80-277 Hanging Rock, store
80-141 Hall, Alfred House
80-153 Hall Family Farm
80-470 2798 Harborwood Rd.
80-471 3104 Hazborwood Rd.
80-474 3387 Harborwood Rd.
Garden City
Roanoke
Garden City
Catawba
Bent Mountain
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Glenvar
Salem
Elliston
Elliston
Elliston
Elliston
Elliston
Stewartsville
Stewartsville
Stewartsville
Stewartsville
Stewartsville
Stewartsville
Glenvar
Garden City
Garden City
Garden City
Salem
Salem
Glenvar
Glenvar
Roanoke
Bent Mountain
Glenvar
Roanoke
Salem
Glenvar
Salem
Glenvar
Salem
Glenvar
Glenvar
Salem
Salem
Salem
112
80-472 3554 Harborwood Rd. Salem
80-70 Harshbarger House (see 80-13) Glenvar
80-438 1478 Hearth Lane Salem
80-88 Helms, Joe, House, Rt. 668 Garden City
80-347 i 700 Hemlock Ave. Garden City
$0-346 7819 Hemlock Ave. Garden City
80-171 Henry Cemetery, Corntassel Ln. Bent Mountain
80-449 2824 Highland Rd. Roanoke
80-448 2838 Highland Rd. Roanoke
80-366 5697 Hillside Rd. Garden City
80-286 Hofawger House (demolished)
80-602 6874 Hofawger Rd. Garden City
80-182 Hollins College, Art Annex/Theatre Roanoke
80-178 Hollins College, Art Studio Roanoke
80-177 Hollins College, Barbee House Roanoke
80-186 Hollins College, Carvin House Roanoke
80-179 Hollins College, Duchouquet Cottage Roanoke
80-175 Hollins College, Eastnor Roanoke
80-477 Hollins College, Guest House Roanoke
80-181 Hollins College, Maison Francaise Roanoke
80-176 Hollins College, Melvern Hall Roanoke
80-183 Hollins College, Pleasants Hall, Roanoke
80-187 Hollins College, Presser Hall Roanoke
80-185 Hollins College, Rathhaus Roanoke
80-180 Hollins College, Rose Hill Roanoke
80-189 Hollins College, Springhouse Roanoke
80-184 Hollins College, Sundusky Roanoke
80-188 Hollins College, Tayloe Gym Roanoke
80-55 Hollins College Quadrangle Roanoke
80-600 8352 Holly Tree Dr. Garden City
80-364 8442? Holly Tree Dr. Garden City
80-14 Homewood Garden City
80-269 Huffman-Damewood Farm Glenvar
80-360 5413 Indian Grave Rd. Garden City
80-614 3017 Ivyland Rd. Garden City
80-311 6840 Ivy Mountain Dr. Bent Mountain
80-384 2702 Jae Valley Rd. Garden City
80-b12 3465 Jae Valley Rd. Garden City
80-56 James Farm Stewartsville
80-436 2211 Janee Dr. Salem
80-521 2215 Janee Dr. Salem
80-520 2239 Janee Dr. Salem
80-435 2247 Janee Dr. Salem
80-434 2253 Janee Dr. Salem
80-519 2277 Janee Dr. Salem
80-259 Jerry Morgan Farm Catawba
113
80-261 Jesse Bratton House Catawba
80-547 1083 Joe Carrot Rd. Glenvar
80-116 John-Custer Farm. Glenvar
80-120 John Family Farm Glenvar
80-121 John, John House Glenvar
80-256 John Payne House Catawba
80-130 John-Shepperd Farm Glenvar
80-122 Johnsville Church (file incomplete)
80-17 josylvia Farm Roanoke
80-257 Keffer House Catawba
80-506 9716 King Brothers Rd. Check
80-143 Kipps House Glenvar
80-318 5808 Kirk Lane Bent Mountain
80-173 Kittinger Cemetery, Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-300 Kittingers Chapel, Landmark Circle Bent Mountain
80-299 6831-6845 Landmark Circle Bent Mountain
80-501 6874 Landmark Circle Bent Mountain
80-106 Lawson Farm Glenvar
80-467 4528 Layman Rd. Stewartsville
80-466 4616 Layman Rd. Stewartsville
80-465 4679 Layman Rd. Stewartsville
80-124 Layman Family Farm McDonalds Mill
80-204 741 Lee Rd. Glenvar
80-404 7217 LeMarre Dr. Roanoke
80-396 7790 Lila Dr. Roanoke
80-393 5213 Lois Lane Roanoke
80-394 5249 Lois Lane Roanoke
80-440 4670 Brookridge Rd. Hardy
80-248 Lula Garst House Catawba
80-97 Log Cabin, Route 618 Hardy
80-43 Log House
80-54 Logan Place Elliston
80-57 Lower James Farm (Demolished) Stewartsville
80-19 Lynbraye Farm Bent Mountain
80-38 Main Building, Hollins College Roanoke
80-560 3115 W. Main St. Salem
80-573 3170 W. Main St. Salem
80-509 3510 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-212 4143 W. Main St. Salem
80-548 4215 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-514 4328 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-479 Red Barn Antiques, 4506 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-574 Refinishing building, 4506 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-556 4800 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-478 5380 W. Main St. Glenvar
80-553 5724 W. Main St. Glenvar
114
80-552 5753 W. Main St. Glenvar
Garden City
80-341
80-303 6770 Marigold Circle
8210 Martins Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-304 8300 Martins Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-305 8439 Martins Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-306 8550 Martins Creek Rd. Bent Mountain
80-367 8037? Mayland Rd. Garden City
80_87 Abandoned House, Mayland Rd. Garden City
80-342 6566 Mayo Dr. Garden City
80-102 McConkey Farm
Glenvar
80-113 McHenry Family Farm Catawba
80.272 McPherson House Bent Mountain
80-351 2916 McVitty Rd. Bent Mountain
80-350 3027 McVitty Rd.
3121? McVitty Rd. Bent Mountain
80-352
80-480 6419 Meacham Rd. Glenvar
80-348 Starkey Elem. Sch., 6426 Merriman Rd. Garden City
80-355 6837 Merriman Rd. Bent Mountain
80-41 Moomaw House Stewartsville
80-243 Morgan Cemetery Catawba
Bent Mountain
80-302 7429 Moonlight Lane Roanoke
80.78 Morgan House, off of Rt. 618
6104 Mount Chestnut Rd. Bent Mountain
80-309
80-310 6619 Mount Chestnut Rd. Bent Mountain
80-495 11082 Mountain Top Dr. Elliston
80-597 1826 Mountain View Rd. Stewartsville
80-596 1909 Mountain View Rd. Stewartsville
80-595 1911 Mountain View Rd. Stewartsville
80-429 2148 Mountain View Rd. Stewartsville
80-239 Mountain View Baptist Church ba
80-432 2827 Neil Dr. Salem
80-564 N&W Railroad Bridge, Dry Hollow Rd.
80-255
Nelson Barnett House Catawba
80-95 Niagara Power Station/Dam Roanoke
80-535 3608 Old Catawba Rd. Salem
80-589 3882? Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-590 3914 Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-592 House, 3977 Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-591 Store, 3977 Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-593 3988 Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-588 Bridge, Old Catawba Rd. Catawba
80-522 6512 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-524 6542 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-523 6547 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-301 7184 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-406 5524 Old Mountain Rd. Roanoke
115
80-172 6895 Old Mill Rd. Bent Mountain
80-407 7148 Old Mountain Rd. Roanoke
80-408 7223 Old Mountain Rd. Roanoke
80-409 Office, 7223 Old Mountain Rd. Roanoke
80-410 7239 Old Mountain Rd. Roanoke
80-377 5122 Old Virginia Spring Rd. Garden City
80-375 5223 Old Virginia Spring Rd. Garden City
80-374 5250 Old Virginia Spring Rd. Garden City
80-413 7126 Ould Dr. Roanoke
80-312 Owens House, 6606 Ivy Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-503 9428 Patterson Dr. Check
80-504 Christo Church, 9512 Patterson Dr. Check
80-505 9548 Patterson Dr. Check
80-579 6197 Peaceful Dr. Elliston
80-340 3801 Penn Forest Blvd. Bent Mountain
80-433 2716? Peters Creek Rd. Salem
80-400 6044 Peters Creek Rd. Roanoke
80-401 6615 Peters Creek Rd. Roanoke
80-402 6621 Peters Creek Rd. (same as 80-226) Roanoke
80-23 Peters Creek Church of the Brethren Salem
80-24 Petty-Gray House Roanoke
80-60 6629 Pine Needle Dr. Garden City
80-363 6869 Pine Needle Dr. Garden City
80-62 7217 Pine Needle Dr. Garden City
80-416 6307 Pinetree Lane Roanoke
80-463 4774 Pioneer Dr. Stewartsville
80-615 3218 Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-616 Barns, 3687? Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-620 Tenant house, 3687 Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-621 4038 Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-417 5415 Plantation Rd. Roanoke
80-15 Huff House, 5621 Plantation Rd. Roanoke
80-34 Nininger House, 6103 Plantation Rd. Roanoke
80-414 6434 Plantation Rd. Roanoke
80-25 Pleasant Grove Glenvar
80-476 5538 Pleasant Run Dr. Glenvar
80-554 5817 Pleasant Run Rd. Glenvar
80-307 6219 Poage Valley Rd. Bent Mountain
80-329 6463 Poage Valley Rd. Bent Mountain
80-337 6853 Poage Valley Rd. Bent Mountain
80-338 7201 Poage Valley Rd. Bent Mountain
80-290 121 Poage Valley Road Ext. Bent Mountain
80-289 7759 Poage Valley Road Ext. Bent Mountain
80-576 4455 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-557 4754 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-558 4814 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
116
80-575 4857 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-482 4911 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-216 Store, 5167? Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-215 5168 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-481 5235 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-559 5248 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-512 5255 Poor Mountain Rd. Glenvar
80-511 5408 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-219 5625 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-217 5628 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-562 5643 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-510 5672 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-508 5862? Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-473 5866 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-223 6107 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-224 6111 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-507 6118 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-561 6204 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-222 6210 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-489 8215 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-4$8 8566 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-490 8701 Poor Mountain Rd. Elliston
80-325 9207 Poor Mountain Rd. Bent Mountain
80-468 3065 Powell Dr. Salem
80-96 Preston House Roanoke
80-238 Ralph Lee House Catawba
80-386 3250 Randall Dr. Garden City
80-388 3371 Randall Dr. Garden City
80-387 Randall Dr. & Rutrough Rd., store Garden City
80-170 5812 Ran Lynn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-349 6422 Ran Lynn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-626 8176 Peters Creek Rd. Roanoke
80-33 Richardson, Green, House Garden City
80-13 Richardson, John, House Roanoke
80-584 1567 Richland Hills Dr. Salem
80-585 1748 Richland Hills Dr. Salem
80-91 Riverside Bridge, Rt. 639 Elliston/Glenvar
80-565 4665 W. River Rd. Elliston
80-483 5558 W. River Rd. Elliston
80-1 House, Route 115 Roanoke
80-225 Roanoke Bypass, Rt. 220
80-227 Roanoke By-Pass, Route 220
80-266 House, Rt. 311 Catawba
80-253 House, Rt. 779 Catawba
80-167 House, Route 785 Glenvar
80-45 Roanoke Navigation
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80-242 Robert Lee House Catawba
80-274 Rose House Looney
80-293 5661 Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-169 5509 S. Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-308 5678 S. Roselawn Rd. Bent Mountain
80-422 2401 E. Ruritan Rd. Roanoke
80-423 2405 E. Ruritan Rd. Roanoke
80-424 2824 E. Ruritan Rd. Roanoke
80-425 1602 W. Ruritan Rd. Roanoke
80-263 Russell H. Blaney House Looney
80-622 2302 Rutrough Rd. Garden City
80-613 3019 Rutrough Rd. Garden City
80-450 3647 Rutrough Rd. Hardy
80-513 4348 Rutrough Rd. Hardy
80-247 Samuel Phillips House Catawba
80-71 Sarver House Roanoke
80-111 Sessler House Glenvar
80-411 7421 Shadwell Dr. Roanoke
80-412 7811 Shadwell Dr. Roanoke
80-330 6974 Shaver Rd. Bent Mountain
80-140 Shiloh Methodist Church Glenvar
80-93 Shotgun Dwelling Roanoke
80-31 Showalter-Gartch House Salem
80-202 1114 Skyview Rd. Salem
80-201 1115 Skyview Rd. Salem
80-200 1297? Skyview Rd. Salem
80-457 4822 Sidetrack Rd. Stewartsville
80-458 4830 Sidetrack Rd. Stewartsville
80-456 4854 Sidetrack Rd. Stewartsville
80-542 8681 Sinker Ln. Glenvar
80-331 10112 Sling Gap Rd. Bent Mountain
80-332 10118 Sling Gap Rd. Bent Mountain
80-26 Southview Roanoke
80-295 5320 Spencer Drive Bent Mountain
80-110 Spessard Cemetery Glenvar
80-260 Spessard-Porter House Catawba
80-104 Spessard School Glenvar
80-362 7924 Spotswood Dr. Garden City
80-549 4929 Stanley Farm Rd. Glenvar
80-27 Starkey House (Speedwell) Bent Mountain
80-345 7798 Starlight Lane Garden City
80-344 8149 Starlight Lane Garden City
80-343 8207 Starlight Lane Garden City
80-599 8275 Starlight Lane Garden City
80-85 3610 Sterling Rd. Garden City
80-370 Mill, 3672 Sterling Rd. Garden City
118
80-83 3672 Sterling Rd. Garden City
80-40 Stoner, Jacob, Spring House Stewartsville
80-405 Summerdean springhouse, LeMarre Dr. Roanoke
80-385 2697 Sunnyvale St. Garden City
80-28 Tavern (Bower House) Roanoke
80-268 Taylor House Glenvar
80-61 Taylor House, Rt 2 Box 369 Garden City
80-158 Taylor, N. E. House Glenvar
80-623 6810 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-625 6909 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-624 6920 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-389 6933 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-390 Ebenezer Baptist Church, 7045 Thirlane Rd. Roanoke
80-391 7047 Thirlane Rd., school Roanoke
80-237 Thomas-Anderson Farm Catawba
80-235 Thomas House Catawba
80-81 Thomas House, Rt. 651 Roanoke
$0-234 Thomas, W. E., Barn Catawba
80-326 Thompson Grove Church, Bent Mtn. Rd. Bent Mountain
80-192 2020 Timberview Rd. Salem
80-191 2033 Timberview Rd. Salem
80-327 9525 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-328 9526 Tinsley Lane, store Bent Mountain
80-492 9696 Tinsley Ln. Bent Mountain
80-324 9809 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-493 9970 Tinsley Ln. Bent Mountain
80-321 10325 Tinsley Lane Bent Mountain
80-361 4062 Pitzer Rd. Garden City
80-84 Turner, H. F. House, Sterling Rd. Garden City
80-74 Tribbett, J. E., House, Rt. 116 Garden City
80-157 Trout Creek barn Glenvar
80-165 Trout Creek house Glenvar
80-92 Troutville Weigh Station, Rt. 81 Roanoke
80-75 Turner, W. V., House, Rt. 116 Garden City
80-313 5109 Twelve O'clock Knob Rd. Bent Mountain
80-168 6091 Two Ford Rd. Bent Mountain
80-287 VDOT survey, Route 115
80-64 VDOT Structure #5 Garden City
80-74 thru 80-90 VDOT Survey
80-555 5812 Viewpoint Ave. Glenvar
80-42 West Dormitory, Hollins College Roanoke
80-565 4665 W. River Rd. Elliston
80-214 4679 W. River Rd. Elliston
80-213 4743 W. River Rd Elliston
80-578 Goodwins Church, 5791 W. River Rd. Elliston
80-583 2164 Wildwood Rd. Salem
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80-491 8315 Willett Ln. Elliston
80_4 William Hall House File Missing
80-392 6520 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-395 8160 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-174 7916 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-358 7480 Willow Branch Rd. Garden City
80-485 7916 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-415 7971 Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-190 Kay's Cabin, 8031? Williamson Rd. Roanoke
80-601 7468 Willow Branch Rd. Garden City
80-265 Wilson-Brizendine House Looney
Garden City
80-371 3713 Wispering Lane
80-431 8177 Wood Haven Rd. Salem
80-103 Woods-Morehead Farm Glenvar
80-164 Wright, Chester House Glenvar
80-163 Wright Farm Glenvar
80-144 Wright Family Farm Glenvar
80-577 4784 Yateman Ln. Elliston
80-608 4484 Yellow Mountain Rd. Garden City
80-607
5376 Yellow Mountain Rd. Garden Ci
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80-607 5376 Yellow Mountain Rd. Garden Ci
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80-606 5512 Yellow Mountain Rd. Garden Ci
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NUMBER
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Briefing: Results of Employee Survey
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
This time has been set aside to discuss the results of the recent
employee survey.
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Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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ACTION VOTE
Approved ( ) Motion by: No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) Eddy
Received ( ) Johnson
Referred ( ) Kohinke
To ( ) Minnix
Nickens
ACTION #
ITEM NUMBER ` ,. '~
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
SUBJECT: Briefing on Draft Regional Cable TV Committee Agreement
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: At the April 7, 1992 meeting of the
Regional Cable Television Committee, the attorneys for the three
jurisdictions were asked to draft an agreement providing the
Committee with the authority to develop and operate a cable
television station and programming.
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION: On May 7, 1992, the Committee met to
receive the draft contract from the attorneys. A copy is attached.
The following changes were made during the meeting, and a revised
copy will be available for discussion at the Board meeting on May
12:
Article IV. Financing and Budgets
Instead of agreeing that 1% of the franchise fee from Cox
Cable will be used to fund the operation, the committee agreed that
the studio would be funded on a proportional basis, at an amount
not to exceed the 1% fee. This change was made because it is
unlikely that the studio operation would require the entire 1%
amount during the first few years of service, and so that revenues
are not earmarked to particular activities.
Article V. Termination
This will be changed to read that any party may terminate the
agreement on its own action, without agreement from the other
jurisdictions. The value of the property and equipment would be
determined at that time, and the withdrawing jurisdiction would
receive its share as in-kind services from the television studio.
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It is currently anticipated that this will be on the Board's
agenda on May 26 for formal approval.
I
nne Marie Green
Public Information Officer
Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
ACTION
Approved ( )Motion by:
Denied ( )
Received ( )
Referred
To
Eddy
Kohinke
Johnson
Minnix
Nickens
VOTE
No Yes Abs
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ROANOKE VALLEY REGIONAL CABLE TELEVISION COMMITTEE AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is dated as of the day of ,
19 by and between the City of Roanoke, a municipal corporation
of the Commonwealth of Virginia, (City ), the County of Roanoke, a
political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia, ("County"),
and the Town of Vinton, a municipal corporation of the Commonwealth
of Virginia ("Town").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the City, County, and Town have by Ordinance Nos.
30478-42291, and
respectively, provided for one or more non-exclusive franchises to
construct, operate, and maintain one or more cable television
systems within their jurisdictions ("Ordinances"); and,
WHEREAS, section 11 of each of the above described Ordinances
provides for the establishment and operation of a Cable Television
Committee made up of representatives of the City, County, and Town;
and,
WHEREAS, the Cable Television Committee as now established is
primarily an advisory body unable to take substantive action
without the approval of each jurisdiction's governing body; and,
WHEREAS, the City, County, and Town by this agreement desire
to authorize the Roanoke Valley Regional Cable Television Committee
to provide for the development, administration, and operation of
cable television educational and institutional facilities and
programming .
WITNESSETH
THAT FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants and
agreements contained herein, the parties hereto, pursuant to the
provisions of section 15.1-21 of the Code of Virginia, (1950), as
amended, do covenant and agree to establish the "Roanoke Valley
Regional Cable Television Committee" ("Committee") upon the terms
and conditions set forth herein.
I. TERM
This agreement shall take effect upon its proper execution
pursuant to and by ordinance of the governing bodies of the City,
County, and Town. Thereafter, the term of this agreement shall be
concurrent with the Cable Television Franchise Agreements granted
pursuant to the Ordinances by the City, County, and Town to Cox
Cable Roanoke, Inc., ("Franchise Agreements") unless terminated
earlier in the manner provided herein.
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II. ESTABLISHMENT AND TERMS OF MEMBERS
City, County, and Town covenant and agree to hereby establish
the Roanoke Valley Regional Cable Television Committee for the
purpose of developing, administering, and operating cable
television educational and institutional facilities and programming
as a joint and cooperative undertaking for the use and benefit of
all the parties hereto. The Committee shall be organized and
comprised of 11 members selected and appointed in the manner
provided in Section 11 of the Ordinances, a copy of which is
attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein as Exhibit A.
III. PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION
In addition to existing purposes, powers, and duties of the
Roanoke Regional Cable Television Committee under the Ordinances,
the Committee shall also be authorized to provide for the
development, administration, and operation of cable television
educational and institutional facilities and programming for the
City, County, and Town as provided for in the Ordinances and
Franchise Agreements. The administration of all such activities
shall be undertaken by the Committee. The Committee shall be
authorized to receive on behalf of the City, County, and Town and
expend all Capital Grant funds provided under the Franchise
Agreements by Cox Cable Roanoke, Inc., for the purpose of acquiring
equipment for educational and institutional purposes. The Committee
shall be authorized to enter into and administer appropriate
contracts and agreements for the purchase of goods and services,
including personal service contracts. All personal property shall
be held in the name of the Committee. The Committee shall be
authorized to lease but not to acquire real property.
IV. FINANCING AND BUDGETS
In addition to being authorized to expend Capital Grant funds
as provided in paragraph III above, the parties hereto intend that
the operations of the Committee shall be financed by allocation to
the Committee by the City, County, and Town, of a portion of the
Franchise Fees collected from Cox Cable Roanoke, Inc. by each of
these jurisdictions under the Franchise Agreements in the amount of
one percent (1~) of gross revenues. City, County, and Town
recognize and agree that the allocation to the Committee of one
percent (1~) of gross revenues collected from Cox Cable Roanoke,
Inc. is subject to and dependent upon annual appropriations being
made from time to time by each of their governing bodies for such
purpose. Nothing herein shall constitute a pledge of the full faith
and credit of the City, County, or Town or be deemed to require
that appropriations be made. On or before March 15 of each year,
the Committee shall have prepared and submit for approval to City,
County, and Town an annual operating and capital budget for the
upcoming fiscal year. The Committee shall not expend any funds or
incur any financial obligation except pursuant to a budget approved
by City, County, and Town.
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V. TERMINATION
This agreement shall not be terminated except after
appropriate action by ordinance or resolution by all three
governing bodies of City, County, and Town, authorizing such
termination. Upon such termination, all property and equipment
belonging to the Committee shall be allocated among the three
jurisdictions in the same proportion as total funds were
contributed to the Committee by each of the jurisdictions.
VI. LIABILITY AND INSURANCE
The Committee shall be responsible for any liability that may
arise out of its operation. The Committee shall obtain and maintain
during the term of this agreement comprehensive general liability
insurance in the amount of $500,000.00 per occurrence covering the
Committee, as well as the City, County, and Town, their officers,
agents and employees as additional insureds.
WITNESS the following signatures and seals:
City of Roanoke
By:
Title:
County of Roanoke
By:
Title:
Town of Vinton
By:
Title:
Attest:
By:
Title:
Attest:
By:
Title:
Attest:
By:
Title:
Exhibit A
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11 ROANOKE VALLEY REGIONAL CABLE TV COIVi1VIITI'EE (•CATV CONl2VIITT"EE")
11.1 . The 11 members of the CATV Committee shall be selected as follows, and
appointed by the appropriate authority:
11.1.1 One member from the Roanoke County Board of Supervisor.
11.1.2 One member from the Roanoke City Council.
11.1.3 One member from the Vinton City Council.
11.1.4 The Vinton Town Manager or his designee.
11.1.5 The Roanoke County. Administrator or his designee.
11.1.6 The Roanoke City Manager or his designee.
11.1.7 One member each from the Roanoke City and Roanoke County School
Systems appointed by the respective School Boards.
11.1.8 One member at large from each of the three jurisdictions (Winton, Roanoke,
Roanoke County) appointed by the respective governing body.
The General Manager of Grange shall be given notice of the date, time, and location
of each meeting, with at least 10 days' notice where possible, and may afford all such meetings.
excxpt when the meetings are in executive session.
The Chairperson shall be elated by the Committee far a period of one (1) year, or
for such other term as the Committee shall determine.
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11.2 Terms of Office, The terms for the three appointed at-large member shall be
staggered, as follows: the initial appointee from Roanoke County shall serve one (1) year; the
initial appointee from Roanoke City shall serve for two (2) Years; and the initial appointee from
the Town of Vinton shall serve for three (3) years. ARer the initial terms, each member at-large
shall be appointed for a term of three (3) yeah or until a ~iccessor is qualified. Council or
Board members shall serve for such periods as determined by their respective governing bodies.
11.3 ~~. The CATV Committee shall melt at the call of the Chairperson or at such
other times as the Committee shall determine, and not less often than oncx each year. A quorum
shall be constituted by five (S) Members. The CATV Committee shall be authorized to adopt
such By-laws and rules of procedure as are necessary to exercise the responsibilities granted
herein.
11.4 Powers and Duties, The CATV Committee shall:
11.4.1 Advise Grantor on applications for Franchises.
11.4.2 Monitor Grantee's eompliancx with the provisions of this Ordinancx and
advise Grantor on matters which might constitute grounds for moctetary forfeiture or revocation
of the Franchise in accordance with this Ordinancx. .
11.4.3 To the extort permitted by applicable law, advise on the regulation of rates
in acxordancx with this Ordinance, the Franchise, and applicable law.
11.4.4 Hear all complaints of Subscriber which have not been satisfied by Grantee;
respond to such complaints; record all such complaints; attempt to resolve complaints with
Grantee; record results; and report on an annual basis the results of its actions hereunder relating
to complaints to the respective governing bodies.
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11.4.5 Review any proposed change in Franchix ownership and recommend whether
approval should be granted by Grantor.
11.4.6 Coordinate review of Grantee records as required by this Ordinance.
11.4.7 Encourage use of Access and Institutional channels among the widest range
of institutions, groups and individuals within the Territorial Limits.
11.4.8 Review access budgets as prepared by Grantor departments and coordinate
the expenditure of any capital grant funds provided for in the Franchise for the full development
of educational channels and Access-Cablecasting programming, and other access uses of the
Cable System.
11.4.9 Prepare and recommend to the respective governing bodies:
11.4.9.1 Rules and procedures consistent with this Ordinance and the
Franchix, under which Grantee may use Acxss Channel capacity for the provision of other
services when Access Channels are not being used for access purposes; and
11.4.9.2 Rules and procedures consistent with this Ordinancx and the
Franchix, under which such ux by Grantee shall cease.
11.4.10 Develop appropriate policies and procedures; coordinate Access Cablerasdng
programming and activities; and assist in preparation and review of budgets for all Access and
Origination Cablecasting activities.
11.4.11 Maintain records in accordance with statutory requirements.
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NO. '""""
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Adoption of a proposed statement of position to be
submitted to the State Corporation Commission on
the proposed Appalachian Power Company Transmission
Line
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
I had hoped that we could express our opposition in more general terms as we agreed to in our
previous Board meetings. Our objectives were to ask them to reconsider the route and to minimize the
impact on natural resources and communities where rt was to be located. If the proposed route goes
through Roanoke County we should continue our involvement to see that our citizens are treated fairly.
We should also maximize any tax benefits that could be received fromAPCO. I prefer not to expend
a great deal of staff time in Richmond lobbying against the project.
BACKGROUND:
Over the past six months the Board of Supervisors has directed
staff to prepare a notice of protest regarding the APCo proposal to
locate, construct, and operate a 765 kV electric power line within
a corridor through the Catawba Magisterial District. County staff
and the Planning Commission have reviewed the APCo proposal and
have submitted recommendations to the Board concerning a County
position on this matter. The Board has discussed and debated this
matter on November 19, 1991, February 11, 1992, and March 10, 1992.
SUrIIKARY OF INFORMATION:
Attached you will find a proposed "Statement of Position" to
be submitted by and on behalf of the Board of Supervisors to the
State Corporation Commission on APCO's application to construct and
operate a 765 kV electric transmission line within Roanoke County.
By the terms and conditions of the amended SCC order, the
County must prefile its "testimony and exhibits" in support of its
protest on or before May 18, 1992. Instead of filing "testimony
and exhibits," staff recommends that the Board adopt the proposed
Statement of Position for submission to the SCC.
The attached Statement of Position attempts to summarize in
one document the recommendations of staff, the costs and benefits
to Roanoke County of this proposal, the findings of the Planning
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Commission, and various comments and statements by individual Board
members.
Previously the Board directed that staff submit to the Board
proposed "testimony and exhibits" before submitting same to the
SCC.
FISCAL IMPACTS'
ALTERNATIVES'
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board approve the attached
"Statement of Position," authorize the County Administrator to
execute this Statement of Position on behalf of the Board and the
County, and direct the County Attorney to file this Statement of
Position with the SCC.
Respectfully submitted,
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aul M. Mahoney
County Attorney
Action Vote
No Yes Abs
Approved ( ~ Motion by Harr C'_ _ Ni C`1CP1'1R Eddy X
Denied ~ ~ tc~ aL? rnvP h i ~ mc~~ i f i Pry Johnson X
Received ( ) ~tatPmPnt of ~nGitinn with Kohinke X
Referred ~,,,-aq~,~~R C~P~ Pi-P(~ Nickens X
to Minnix X
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Paul M. Mahoney, County Attorney
Terrance L. Harrington, Director, Planning & Zoning
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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION
APPLICATION OF
APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY
To amend its Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity authorizing
operation of transmission lines and
facilities in the Counties of Giles,
Craig, Roanoke, and Botetourt;
Wyoming-Cloverdale 765 kV transmission
line and Cloverdale 500 kV Bus Extension
CASE NO. PUE 91-0050
STATEMENT OF POSITION
The Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, on a four (4) to one (1)
vote, files this Statement of Position as its "testimony and exhibits" in support of its notice
of protest relative to this application as follows:
1. That Elmer C. Hodge is the duly appointed County Administrator for Roanoke
County, Virginia, and that he has been authorized and directed to submit this statement
of position on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, in these
proceedings.
2. That the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors have held public
hearings and received citizen comments on this application to construct and operate a 765
kV transmission line, a portion of which may be located in Roanoke County, Virginia.
3. That as a result of citizen comments, review and recommendation by the
Planning Commission, and recommendations by County staff, .the Board of Supervisors
hereby expresses concern relative to the location, construction, and operation of a 765 kV
transmission by Appalachian Power Company within the preferred route, a portion of
which is proposed to be located within Roanoke County, and that this transmission line be
located within one of the alternative comdors.
4. That Appalachian Power Company is one of Roanoke County's best corporate
citizens and that it has provided low cost, reliable electricity to its customers and the
citizens of the County for many years. Appalachian Power Company has been very
cooperative with regard to its corporate support of numerous County projects, including
the Reservoir, the Landfill, and economic development prospects. The County has been
favorably impressed by Appalachian Power Company's staff thoroughness and objectivity
in their presentations to the Board concerning this application.
5. That the County acknowledges that it is Appalachian Power Company's stated
purpose to strengthen and improve electric power service to this part of Virginia, to provide
for expected growth of electric power use and demand in this part of Virginia, and to
minimize the possibility of future service interruptions or outages.
6. That despite these positive benefits, the Board finds that there may exist
factors which would adversely affect the quality of life and environment in Roanoke
County. These factors are as follows:
a. That a key "cost" to the citizens of Roanoke County is
a loss of the visual aesthetic value.
b. That tourism is a significant factor in the economic base
of Roanoke County and that the visual beauty of the
Roanoke County is a key factor in its overall economic
development, not only for the purposes of tourism but
also to market the Roanoke Valley to attract new
businesses and citizens to this area. Therefore, any loss
of visual and aesthetic qualities may adversely affect the
overall economic welfare of Roanoke County.
c. That the Planning Commission finds that the proposed
electric transmission line is not consistent with the
County's adopted Comprehensive Plan declaring the
area of potential impact to be rural preserve.
d. That this proposal does not sufficiently address the
environmentally critical and necessary factor of energy
conservation and that the construction of this new
transmission line could weaken the incentives for an
aggressive energy conservation program.
e. That this proposed electric transmission line would
adversely impact the community including the Catawba
rural historic district and State Secondary Route 785
scenic byway, as well as residences within the proposed
corridor.
f. That in paralleling an existing electric transmission line,
the proposed and existing electric lines could be
damaged or eliminated in a common disaster or
accident which would result in a severe disruption of
electric utility service to the citizens.
7. That although the County lacks the expertise to judge the need of this
proposed electric transmission line, the County has been impressed by numerous public
comments. The demand or need for electric power in this area of Virginia does not require
the construction of the proposed electric transmission line. The County strongly urges the
Commission to closely scrutinize the evidence and data with respect to the need for this
proposed facility and to balance the benefits of this proposal with the significant adverse
effects upon Roanoke County and the Roanoke Valley.
Executed and submitted on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke Co~..ulty,
Virginia.
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By
TElmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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Paul M. Mahoney, Esq.
Roanoke County Attorney
P. O. Box 29800
Roanoke, VA 24018
CERTIFICATE
I hereby certify that a true copy of the foregoing was hand-delivered or mailed,
postage paid, to H. Allen Glover, Esq., Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, P. O. Box 720,
Roanoke, VA 24004; George J. A. Clemo, Esq., Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, P. O. Box
720, Roanoke, VA 24004; Michael J. Quinan, Esq., Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, P. O. Box
720, Roanoke, VA 24004; William S. Bilenky Esq., 8133 Forest Hill Avenue, Suite 101,
Richmond, VA 23235; James E. Cornwell, Jr., Esq., P. O. Box 694, Pulaski, VA 24301;
Joseph H. Reich, Sr., Route 1, Box 572, Catawba, VA 24070; John T. Moluphy, III, Esq.,
308 Second. Street, SW, Roanoke, VA 24011; David J. Damico, Esq., P. O. Box 1578,
Roanoke, VA 24007-1578; Wayne Smith, Associate General Counsel, State Corporation
Commission, P. O. Box 1197, Richmond, VA 23209; Howard P. Anderson, Jr., Hearing
Examiner, P. O. Box 2118, Richmond, VA 23216; Charles L. Williams, Jr., Esq., Gentry,
Locke, Rakes & Moore, P. O. Box 1018, Roanoke, VA 24005; Anthony Gainbardella, Jr.,
Esq., General Counsel, State Corporation Commission, P. O. Box 1197, Richmond, VA
23216; Massoud Tahamtani, Division of Energy Regulation, State Corporation Commission,
P. O. Box 1197, Richmond, VA 23216; Robert L. Lacy, Division of Economics and Finance,
State Corporation Commission, P. O. Box 1197, Richmond, VA 23216; Hon. Mary Sue
Terry, Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia, 101 N. 8th Street, Richmond, VA
23219; Edward Petrini, Esq., Sr. Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia,
101 N. 8th Street, Richmond, VA 23219 this 13th day of May, 1992.
Paul M. Mahoney
Roanoke County Attorney
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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION
APPLICATION OF
APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY
To amend its Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity authorizing
operation of transmission lines and
facilities in the Counties of Giles,
Craig, Roanoke, and Botetourt;
Wyoming-Cloverdale 765 kV transmission
line and Cloverdale 500 kV Bus Extension
CASE NO. PUE 91-0050
STATEMENT OF POSITION
The Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, files this Statement of
Position as its "testimony and exhibits" in support of its protest in opposition to this
application as follows:
1. That Elmer C. Hodge is the duly appointed County Administrator for Roanoke
County, Virginia, and that he has been authorized and directed to submit this statement
of position on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, in these
proceedings.
2. That the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors have held public
hearings and received citizen comments on this application to construct and operate a 765
kV transmission line, a portion of which may be located in Roanoke County, Virginia.
3. That as a result of citizen comments, review and recommendation by the
Planning Commission, and recommendations by County staff, the Board of Supervisors
hereby expresses its opposition to the location, construction, and operation of a 765 kV
transmission by Appalachian Power Company within the preferred route, a portion of
which is proposed to be located within Roanoke County, and that this transmission line be
located within one of the alternative corridors.
4. That Appalachian Power Company is one of Roanoke Counts best corporate
citizens and that it has provided low cost, reliable electricity to its customers and the
citizens of the County for many years. Appalachian Power Company has been very
cooperative with regard to its corporate support of numerous County projects, including
the Reservoir, the Landfill, and economic development prospects. The County has been
favorably impressed by Appalachian Power Compan~s staff thoroughness and objectivity
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in their presentations to the Board concerning this application.
5. That the County acknowledges that it is Appalachian Power Compan~s stated
purpose to strengthen and improve electric power service to this part of Virginia, to provide
for expected growth of electric power use and demand in this part of Virginia, and to
minimize the possibility of future service interruptions or outages.
6. That despite these positive benefits, the Board finds that there exists
numerous adverse factors with respect to this application. These factors would adversely
affect the quality of life and environment in Roanoke County. These factors are as follows:
a. It is the fording of the Planning Commission that the
benefits of this application are not worth the costs
which will be incurred by Roanoke County citizens and
that a key cost to the citizens is a loss of the aesthetic
value. An additional electric transmission line
paralleling an existing electric transmission line would
adversely affect the visual view shed of the Roanoke
Valley.
b. That tourism is a significant factor in the economic base
of Roanoke County and that the visual beauty of the
Roanoke Valley is a key factor in the Counts overall
economic development, not only for the purposes of
tourism but also to market the Roanoke Valley to
attract new businesses and citizens to this area.
Therefore, the visual and aesthetic costs of the location,
construction, and operation of this electric transmission
line would adversely affect the overall economic welfare
of Roanoke County.
c. That the Planning Commission has studied the land use
impact of this proposal and that the proposed electric
transmission line is not consistent with the Counts
adopted Comprehensive Plan and that the land use
impact of this proposal is far greater than the impact
associated with most land uses regulated by the County.
d. That this proposal does not sufficiently address the
environmentally critical and necessary factor of energy
conservation. Since conservation will help reduce the
problems of air pollution, acid rain, and the "greenhouse
effect," construction of this new transmission line could
weaken the incentives for an aggressive energy
conservation program.
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e. That this proposed electric transmission line would
adversely impact the community including the Catawba
rural historic district and State Secondary Route 785
scenic byway, as well as residences within the proposed
corridor.
f. That in paralleling an existing electric transmission line,
the proposed and existing electric lines could be
damaged or eliminated in a common disaster or
accident which would result in a severe disruption of
electric utility service to the citizens.
7. That although the County lacks the expertise to judge the need of this
proposed electric transmission line, the County has been impressed by numerous public
comments. The demand or need for electric power in this area of Virginia does not require
the construction of the proposed electric transmission line. Accordingly the County
strongly urges the Commission to closely scrutinize the evidence and data with respect to
the need for this proposed facility and to balance the benefits of this proposal with the
significant adverse effects upon Roanoke County and the Roanoke Valley.
8. That the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, hereby petitions
the State Corporation Commission, to deny the application of Appalachian Power Company
to construct and operate a 765 kV electric transmission line in the proposed corridor route
(a portion of which is located in Roanoke County) and instead approve the construction
and operation of a 765 kV electric transmission line in one of the alternative corridor
routes not located within Roanoke County.
Executed and submitted on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County,
Virginia.
By,
Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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' CHANGES SUGGESTED TO BE MADE BY HARRY C. NICKENS
CC: BOARD MEMBERS, ECH AND PMM
COMMONf WEALTH OF VIRGINIA
STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION
APPLICATION OF
APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY
To amend its Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity authorizing
operation of transmission lines and
facilities in the Counties of Giles,
Craig, Roanoke, and Botetourt;
Wyoming-Cloverdale 765 kV transmission
line and Cloverdale 500 kV Bus Extension
STATEMENT OF POSITION
CASE NO. PUE 91-0050
The Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, on a three (3) to two (2)
vote, files this Statement of Position as its "testimony and exhibits" in support of its notice
of protest ~elatlve to this application as follows:
1. That Elmer C. Hodge is the duly appointed County Administrator for Roanoke
County, Virginia, and that he has been authorized and directed to submit this statement
of position on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, in these
proceedings.
2. That the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors have held public
hearings and received citizen comments on this application to construct and operate a 765
kV transmission line, a portion of which may be located in Roanoke County, Virginia.
3. That as a result of citizen comments, review and recommendation by the
Planning Commission, and recommendations by County staff, the Board of Supervisors
hereby expresses concern relative b:s-eppa~t~e~ to the location, construction, and
operation of a 765 kV transmission by Appalachian Power Company within the preferred
route, a portion of which is proposed to be located within Roanoke County, and that this
transmission line be located within one of the alternative corridors.
4. That Appalachian Power Company is one of Roanoke Counts best corporate
citizens and that it has provided low cost, reliable electricity to its customers and the
citizens of the County for many years. Appalachian Power Company has been very
cooperative with regard to its corporate support of numerous County projects, including
the Reservoir, the Landfill, and economic development prospects. The County has been
favorably impressed by Appalachian Power Company's staff thoroughness and objectivity
in their presentations to the Board concerning this application.
S. That the County acknowledges that it is Appalachian Power Company's stated
purpose to strengthen and improve electric power service to this part of Virginia, to provide
for expected growth of electric power use and demand in this part of Virginia, and to
m;n;m;~e the possibility of future service interruptions or outages.
6. That despite these positive benefits, the Board finds that there may exists
~~~'~"'""° "`' ~ '''- esPeF~e xis ar,F,a~at~e~h~e factors which would
adversely affect the quality of life and environment in Roanoke County. These factors are
as follows:
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a loss of the visual aesthetic value.
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b. That tourism is a significant factor in the economic base
of Roanoke County and that the visual beauty of the
Roanoke fey County is a key factor in
its overall economic development, not only for the
purposes of tourism but also to market the Roanoke
Valley to attract new businesses and citizens to this
area. Therefore, any loss of visual and aesthetic
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ay adversely affect the overall economic
welfare of Roanoke County.
c. That the Planning Commission finds
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electric transmission line is not consistent with the
County's adopted Comprehensive Plan declaring the
area of potential Impact to tae rural preserve.
d. That this proposal does not sufficiently address the
environmentally critical and necessary factor of energy
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transmission line could weaken the incentives for an
aggressive energy conservation program.
e. That this proposed electric transmission line would
adversely impact the community including the Catawba
rural historic district and State Secondary Route 785
scenic byway, as well as residences within the proposed
corridor.
f. That in paralleling an existing electric transmission line,
the proposed and existing electric lines could be
damaged or eliminated in a common disaster or
accident which would result in a severe disruption of
electric utility service to the citizens.
7. That although the County lacks the expertise to judge the need of this
proposed electric transmission line, the County has been impressed by numerous public
comments. The demand or need for electric power in this area of Virginia does not require
the construction of the proposed electric transmission line. Aeeer~g}y The County
strongly urges the Commission to closely scrutinize the evidence and data with respect to
the need for this proposed facility and to balance the benefits of this proposal with the
significant adverse effects upon Roanoke County and the Roanoke Valley.
8• a Board of Supe 's of Roanoke o ty, Virginia, hereby petitions
the State Co ratio Commission, to s ct the le st btrusive route dew--fie
• t construc and erate a 765 kV electric
transmission line in a propo d corrid r route (a ortio of wlu his located in Roanoke
County) and instead prove a co truction o eration f a 765 kV electric
transmission line in one of the alt a e corridor routes not to ated within Roanoke
County.
Executed and submitted on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County,
Virginia.
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County Administrator
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PARAGRAPH 7 -SECOND SENTENCE
OBJECT STRONGLY! YOU DO NOT KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE.
PARAGRAPH 8
WHY /S IT OK TO NEGATNELY IMPACT SOMEONE OTHER THAN ROANO!CE
COUNTY?
ACTION NUMBER A-51292-3
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ITEM NUMBER '`{
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE COUNTY,
VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER.
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Acceptance of two grants by the Roanoke County
Police Department from the Division of Motor
Vehicles for the acquisition of new radar equipment.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
Recommend Approval
BACKGROUND:
The Roanoke County Police Department has received two grants from
the Department of Motor Vehicles to purchase a KR-10 Moving Radar
Unit including the window and dash mounts for the unit ($1,478.21),
and a VG-2 Interceptor Radar Detector-Detector ($1,295.00).
This equipment will be used to enforce motor vehicle laws in the
County. No additional manpower will be needed to utilize these
devices. This equipment will enhance existing traffic safety
efforts of the Roanoke County Police Department.
FISCAL IMPACT:
These grants are public safety mini-grants for the total amount of
the equipment. The amounts are $1,478.21 and $1,295.00 in DMV
funds for a total amount of $2773.21. No local funding will be
required.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
The Staff recommends acceptance of the grants from the Division of
Motor Vehicles.
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Chief of Police
Approved (x} Motion by:
Approved by,
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Mr. Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
ACTION
VOTE
No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) to approve Eddy x
Kohinke x
Received ( ) -
Minnix x
Referred ( ) -
To Johnson x
Nickens x
cc: File
Chief Cease
Diane Hyatt, Director, Finance
Reta Busher, Director, Management & Budget
ACTION NO.
A-51292-4
ITEM NO. `"`""'
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Approval of Recommendations to the Virginia
Association of Counties for their Legislative
Package
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
EXECUTIVE SUNIlKARY
This item seeks Board approval of a legislative program for
the 1993 session of the Virginia General Assembly.
BACKGROUND'
Annually the Board reviews and adopts a proposed legislative
program for submission to the General Assembly. On April 1, 1992,
the Virginia Association of Counties requested each county to
submit its proposals for consideration by the Association's eight
legislative steering committees.
Accordingly this office has requested County department heads
to submit suggestions for possible legislative action. In
addition, to date one Board member has submitted a series of
suggested legislative proposals.
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
The Chairman has suggested for consideration the following
legislative proposals:
1. Equalize powers of cities and counties.
2. Relax the Dillon Rule.
3. Reduce the powers of the courts to overturn local zoning
decisions.
4. Allow localities to tax bingo games.
5. Return a portion of the lottery proceeds to localities.
6. Allow localities to set school starting dates.
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7. Increase funding for county police departments.
8. Enact a bottle bill.
9. Require funding to accompany state mandates.
10. Allow counties to impose impact fees.
11. Provide state funding for industrial park and shell
buildings.
12. Allow inter-jurisdictional revenue sharing from jointly-
developed industrial parks.
13. Increase funds for the Literary Loan program.
14. Give elected school boards taxing authority.
15. Allow a local option income tax.
16. Continue the moratorian on annexation.
17. Allow amortization of non-conforming billboards.
18. Allow localities to mandate low-consumption water
closets.
In addition, staff recommends consideration of the following
proposals:
1. Expansion of the E911 tax enabling legislation to include
replacement of capital equipment and operating costs.
2. Transient occupancy tax and tobacco tax.
3. Amend VRS legislation to equalize treatment for pre- and
post-1981 employees.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board adopt a legislative program
for the 1993 General Assembly for submission to the legislative
steering committees of the Virginia Association of Counties.
Respectfully submitted,
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Action Vote
No Yes Abs
Approved (~ Motion by Harry C. Nickens Eddy x
Denied ( ) to approve with Items 14, 15 Johnson x
Received ( ) and 18 removed and staff Kohinke x
Referred requests included Nickens x
to Minnix x
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Paul M. Mahoney, County Attorney
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A-51292-5
ACTION #
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ITEM NUMBER
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SIIPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Request for an appropriation of Forty Seven Thousand
Five Hundred ($47,500) to renovate the lower floor of the Roanoke
County Administration Center
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
Recommend approval. I realize this is a substantial sum of money when the budget is tight. However,
we must find some way to support these departments that make great efforts to improve customer
service, modernize operating procedures and 'do more with less'. This could easily have cost much
more. The Homebuilders and contractors are pleased with the plan. I ask for your support.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The County Staff is requesting the Board of Supervisors to
appropriate $47,500 to renovate the lower floor of the Roanoke
County Administration Center. This renovation is support of recent
reorganization in the Engineering and Inspections Department, and
as a part of our continuing effect to improve customer service.
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
In April of 1991, as part of the county's effort to improve
customer service, the Engineering and Development/Inspections
Departments were merged.
During this transition, the staff was given the task of
finding ways to improve operations and enhance customer service.
One of the recommendations suggested was to renovate the lower
floor of the Roanoke County Administration Center. The staff, with
input from the other departments affected by the proposed
renovation, developed a floor plan which will provide several
benefits including:
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1. Improved operation of the department of Engineering and
Inspections.
2. Improved customer services by centralizing informational
material and staff associated with construction.
3. Reduced disruption of other departments not associated
with the general public.
The staff has worked with various contractors to determine
the cost of construction. For your information, attached are the
scope of work and the proposed floor plan.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The staff is requesting an allocation of $47,500 for this
renovation and asking that these funds be taken from the General
Fund unappropriated balance.
ALTERNATIVES AND IMPACTS
Alternative Number 1: Appropriate $47,500 to renovate the
lower floor of the Roanoke County Administration Center.
Alternative Number 2: Do nothing and continue present
operations.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends alternative number 1.
SU$,~KITTED BY
Afnold Covey, Director
of Engineering & Inspe ions
APPROVED BY:
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Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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Approved (x) Motion by: Bob L. Johnson to No Yes AXStain
Denied ( ) approve with funds not to Eddy
Received ( ) exceed $47,500 Johnson x
Referred ( ) Kohinke x
To ( ) Minnix x
Nickens x
pc: Reta Busher, Director of Management & Budget
Donnie Myers, Assistant County Administrator
Terrance Harrington, Director of Planning & Zoning
Timothy W. Gubala, Director of Economic Development
File
Arnold Covey, Director, Engineering & Inspections
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SCOPE OF AORR
As stated in the Board Report, the purpose of the renovation
of the lower level is to improve operations of the Engineering &
Inspections, Planning & Zoning, and Economic Development
Departments. By revising the layout, we hope to improve our level
of service to the public by making activities more accessible,
centralizing areas of public use, and creating a better service-
oriented environment for citizens that come in contact with the
Departments that are located downstairs. The design of the floor
plan is an attempt to:
(1) provide a public reception/service area where information
can be provided, building permits can be obtained, and
planning and zoning information can be acquired,
(2) create a pleasing environment for citizens having
business to conduct,
(3) minimize the travel within the building for customers and
employees,
(4) utilize an open floor plan with demountable partitions
that maximizes the flexibility of the area,
(5) and minimize the cost of the renovation by using existing
panels where possible.
Included in this work will be the utilization of approximately
300 feet of existing partitions, the installation of approximately
370 feet of new partitions, the construction of a public service
counter and reception/waiting area, and some minor relocation of
electrical, telephone, and computer lines. There will be no major
reconstruction of the HVAC, lighting, or existing masonry walls,
allowing the cost to be kept to a minimum. The layout of the
partitions has been designed to encourage better working
relationships with the public and between county employees.
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STAGING OF W®RK
In an attempt to minimize the disruption of services to
Roanoke County citizens, we have asked the Building Trades
Instructor and his students at Arnold Burton Vocational Center to
provide the necessary labor. This will allow us to work nights and
weekends as required to provide an orderly transition and will give
us control of when the work. is to be done. It will also save us
money on labor costs while diving County school students some
practical experience.
The layout of the floor plan is such that the Building Permits
section wi 11 be able to function during the entire construction
schedule. This is where the ma.lority of public contact is and we
are committed to providing that service. A preliminary schedule
of work is as follows:
A. Construct partitions far engineers in the drafting area.
B, Construct partitions for F_conomic Development in
engineering area.
C. Move Planning & Zoning and Economic Development into
vacated areas (ED & Eng}.
D. Construct office and partitions in vacated Planning &
Zoning area for Engineering staff and Drafting section.
E. Renovate Inspectors' area
F. Install main taunter and reception area
G. Proposed Conference Roam will be used as a staging area
for' materials and equipment during construction.
H. Permits counter will remain arerational during normal
working hours.
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PRELIMINARY COST ESTIMATE - LOWER FLOOR RENOVATION
Partitions (mountable)---------------------------- $ 29,000
Partitions (fixed)-------------------------------- 3,000
Relocation of utilities (telephone, computer,etc.)- 1,500
Permits, Planning & Zoning and Engineering counter- 6,000
Reception area (incl. furniture)------------------- 2,000
Labor---------------------------------------------- 6,000
TOTAL----------------------------------------- $47,500
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NO. "'"`
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Request for Joint Planning Commission/Board of
Supervisors Worksession; Discussion of Commission
Recommendations on the 1992 Zoning Ordinance.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
BACKGROUND•
The Planning Commission held
Zoning Ordinance on April 7, 1992.
public hearing and take action on
The Commission would like to meet
discuss their recommendations at
1992.
a public hearing on the 1992
They expect to hold a second
the ordinance on June 2, 1992.
with the Board to present and
a joint worksession on June 9,
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends as follows:
1. That the Board hold a worksession with the Planning
Commission on June 9, 1992.
Respectfully Submitted,
Terrance L. Harringto
Director of Planning and Zoning
Secretary, Roanoke County
Planning Commission
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County Administrator
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Received ( )
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Motion by
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Kohinke
Minnix
Nickens
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NUMBER ~ ~""
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: First Reading of the Fiscal Year 1992-93 Budget
Appropriation Ordinance.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
I request your approval of the budget appropriation as it is presented. If the Board wishes to consider
any changes, I would ask that the first priority be employee benefits.
BACKGROUND:
The 1992-93 fiscal year budget was presented to the Board of
Supervisors by the County Administrator on March 24, 1992. Budget
public hearings were held on January 28, 1992 and April 14, 1992
to receive written and oral comment from the public concerning the
proposed annual budget.
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
Attached for your approval is the 1992-93 fiscal year Budget
Appropriation Ordinance. The total County budget is $164,155,719.
This includes all interfund and intrafund transfers. The budget
net of transfers is $119,212,624.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the first reading of the 1992-93
fiscal year Budget Appropriation Ordinance.
Respectfully submitted, Approved by,
Reta R. Busher Elmer C. Hodge
Director of Management and County Administrator
Budget
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ACTION VOTE
No Yes Abs
Approved ( ) Motion by:
Denied ( ) Eddy
Received ( ) Kohinke
Referred ( ) Johnson
To Minnix
Nickens
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AT A REGIILAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SIIPERVISORB OF ROANORE
COIINTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANORE COIINTY ADMINISTRATION
CENTER ON TIIESDAY, May 12, 1992
ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING FIINDS FOR THE
1992-93 FISCAL YEAR BIIDGET FOR
ROANORE COIINTY, VIRGINIA
WHEREAS, upon notice duly published in the newspaper, a public
hearing was held on April 14, 1992, concerning the adoption of the
annual budget for Roanoke County for fiscal year 1992-93; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia,
approved said budget on April 28, 1992, pursuant to the provisions
of Section 13.02 of the Roanoke County Charter and Chapter 4 of
Title 15.1 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended; and
WHEREAS, the first reading of this appropriation ordinance was
held on April 28, 1992, and the second reading of this ordinance
was held on May 12, 1992, pursuant to the provisions of Section
18.04 of the Roanoke County Charter.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County,
Virginia, as follows:
1. That the following appropriations are hereby made from the
respective funds for the period beginning July 1, 1992, and ending
June 30, 1993, for the functions and purposes indicated:
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RBVAPPR093
COUNTY OF ROANOgB
PROPOSED 1992-93 FISCAL YEAR BUDGBT
APRIL 28, 1992
REVENUES;
GBNBRAL FUND
GBNBRAL GOVBRNNENT 670,707,832
YOUTN NAVBN II 352,552
LAN LIBRARY 30,000
RBCRBATION FBB CLASS 452,848
INTBRNAL SSRVICBS 1,222,527
GARAGE II 232,218
TOTAL GBNBRAL FUND 72,997,977
DEBT FUND 7,929,491
CAPITAL FUND 439,760
NATBR FUND
NATBR OPBRATIONS 5,983,802
1991 NATBR RBVBNUB BONDS 127,453
NATBR REPAIR AND RBPLACBNBNT 350,000
RATE STABILIZATION 309,414
NATBR SURPLUS 797,584
TOTAL NATBR FUND 7,568,253
SENBR FUND
SBNBR OPBRATIONS 3,409,762
SBNBR OFFSITB FACILITIES 116,394
TOTAL SBNBR FUND 3,526,156
TOTAL COUNTY FUNDS 92,461,637
SCNOOL FUNDS
OPBRATING FUND 66,106,683
CAFBTBRIA FUND 2,861,370
GRANT FUND 2,125,671
TBXTBOOB FUND 532,858
CAPITAL FUND 67,500
TOTAL SCHOOL FUNDS 71,694,082
TOTAL RBVBNUB ALL FUNDS 6164,155,719
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COUNTY OF ROANOgB
PROPOSBD 1992-93 FISCAL MBAR BUDGBT
APRIL 28, 1992
EXPENDITURES:
GBNBRAL GOVBRNNBNT
GBNBRAL ADNINISTRATION
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CO ADMINISTRATOR
ADMINISTRATION
INFORMATION d REFERRAL
ASST CO. ADMINISTRATORS
HUMAN RBSOURCBS`-
000NTY ATTORNBY
ECONOMIC DBVBLOPMBNT
ADMINISTRATION
MARXBTING
CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICBRS
TRBASURBR
COMMONABALTH ATTORNEY
VICTIM/WITNESS
CONNISSIONBR OF THB RBYBNUB
ADMINISTRATION
RBAL ESTATE
PERSONAL PROPBRTY
BUSINESS LICBNSB
CLBRg OF THB CIRCUIT COURT
PUBLIC RBCORDS
MICROFILM
SBBRIFF'S OFFICB
ADMINISTRATION
CIVIL DIVISION
CARE d CONFINBNBNT OF PRISONERS
JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
CIRCUIT COURT
GBNBRAL DISTRICT COURT
MAGISTRATB
J b. D COURT
COURT SBRVICB UNIT
------------------------------------------------------------
PBRSONNBL OPERATING CAPITAL TRANSFERS TOTAL
------------------------------------------------------------
119,411 76,834 600 0 196,845
150,790 16,835 0 0 167,625
46,295 18,225 0 0 64,526
204,029 16,187 300 0 220,516
236,874 81,897 0 0 318,771
218,295 29,220 0 (37,143 210,372
170,177 20,000 200 0 190,377
0 151,262 0 0 151,262
1,145,871 410,460 1,100 (37,143) 1,520,288
314,455 139,201 0 17,373 471,029
333,200 17,290 0 0 350,490
0 6,000 0 0 6,000
62,883 4,925 0 0 67,808
69,651 4,800 0 0 74,451
176,228 49,875 0 0 226,103
107,838 8,970 0 0 116,808
370,058 49,918 2,000 0 421,976
24,207 34,693 0 0 58,900
156,383 33,075 14,000 0 203,458
676,021 57,995 2s,ooa 0 760,616
1,825,258 385,916
------------ 0
------------ 0
---------- 2,211,174
------------
--------------
4,116,182 792,658 42,000 17,373 4,968,213
0 81,203 0 0 81,203
0 21,183 0 0 21,183
0 884 0 0 884
0 9,158 750 0 9,908
0 51,680 0 0
------ 51,680
------------
-------------
0 -------------
154,1os ------------
750 ----
0 ls4,a5e
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COUNTY OF ROANOB6
PROPOSBD 1992-93 FISCAL MBAR DUDGBT
APRIL 28, 1992
------------
PBRSONNBL ------------
OPBRATING ------------
CAPITAL ------------
TRANSFBRS ------------
TOTAL
MANAGBNBNT SBRVICBS ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------
COUNTY ASSBSSOR
ADMINISTRATION 209,065 39,864 0 0 248,929
RBASSBSSMBNT 362,775 34,925 2,853 0 400,553
BOARD OF BQUILIZATION 0 0 0 0 0
FINANCIAL PLANNING
CENTRAL ACCOUNTING 317,796 75,446 0 0 393,242
PAYROLL 111,019 14,421 0 0 125,440
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 0 70,200 0 0 70,200
NANAGBMBNT AND BUDGBT 88,213 17,341 0 0 105,554
RISg MANAGBMBNT 81,345 1,017,900 0 0 1,099,245
PROCUREMENT SBRVICBS 208,116 24,972 0 0 233,088
------------
1,378,329 -------------
1,295,069 -----------
2,853 -------------
0 -----------
2,676,251
PUBLIC SAFBTY
POLICB
ADMINISTRATION 99,655 22,600 0 0 122,255
UNIFORM DIVISION 1,850,937 -282,637 168,984 0 2,302,558
CRIMINAL INVEST DIVISION 574,202 90,408 0 0 664,fi10
SBRVICBS DIVISION 838,290 130,854 12,002 0 981,146
TRANSPORTATION SAFBTY COMMISSION 0 912 0 0 912
B911 NAINTBNANCB 0 173,170 0 16,830 190,000
FIRB AND RBSCUB
ADMINISTRATION 60,060 180,060 0 126,503 366,623
OPBRATIONS 1,280,656 219,717 0 0 1,500,373
SUPPORT SBRVICBS 317,928 259,647 0 0 577,575
VOLUNTBBR FIRB 0 59,560 44,750 29,067 133,377
VOLUNTEER RBSCUB 0 101,276 78,500 0 179,776
800MNs COMMUNICATIONS 0 2,850 0 0 2,850
------------
5,021,728 -------------
1,523,691 -----------
304,236 -------------
172,400 -----------
7,022,055
COMMUNITY SBRVICBS
GBNBRAL SBRYICBS 196,775 26,380 0 0 223,155
SOLID YASTB
RBFUSB COLLBCTION 773,887 876,858 0 204,888 1,855,633
RECYCLING 0 40,550 6,000 0 46,550
LEAF COLLBCTION 20,544 24,035 0 0 44,579
BNGINBBRING AND INSPBCTIONS
ADMINISTRATION 238,278 39,832 0 0 278,110
BNGINBBRING 232,676 130,637 0 (137,342) 225,971
INSPBCTIONS 393,508 23,393 0 (57,730) 359,171
DRAINAGE 88,436 41,300 88,507 0 218,243
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COUNTY OF ROANOBB
PROPOSED 1992-93 FISCAL MBAR BUDGBT
APRIL 2B, 1992
------------
PBRSONNBL
------------ -------------
OPBRATING
------------- -----------
CAPITAL
----------- -------------
TRANSFERS
------------- -----------
TOTAL
-----------
BUILDING NAINTBNANCB
BUILDING NAINTBNANCB 164,206 286,941 14,739 (20,000) 445,886
JANITORIAL SBRVICBS 178,612 89,226 0 0 267,838
RANDICAPPBD ACCBSS 0 25,000 0 0 25,000
PLANNING AND ZONING 278,333 56,694 0 0 335,027
PLANNING CONNISSION 16,360 2,850 0 0 19,210
-
----
------------
2,581,615 -------------
1,663,695 -----------
109,246 -------------
(10,184 -----
-
4,344,372
NUNAN SBRVICBS
GROUNDS NAINTBNANCB
GROUNDS NAINTBNANCB 626,425 365,667 0 0 992,092
STRBBT SIGNS 0 3,990 0 0 3,990
PARgS AND RBCRBATION
CONNUNITY BDUCATION 69,135 950 0 0 70,085
LBISURB ACTIVITIES 88,459 950 0 0 89,409
OUTDOOR ADVBNTURB 51,149 2,258 0 0 53,407
SBNIOR CITIZENS 87,917 3,325 0 0 91,242
SPECIAL BVBNTS 52,864 3,925 0 0 56,789
THBRAPBUTICS 81,253 19,456 0 0 100,709
ADULT ATNLBTICS 60,832 950 0 0 61,782
YOUTB ATHLETICS 149,943 9,500 o a 159,443
ADMINISTRATION 142,778 90,742 0 0 233,520
PUBLIC HEALTH 0 376,652 0 0 376,652
SOCIAL SBVICBS ADMINISTRATION 1,655,933 215,679 6,150 0 1,8?7,762
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE 0 1,006,850 0 0 1,006,850
INSTITUTIONAL CARE 0 20,000 0 0 20,000
SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS 0 119,332 0 0 119,332
CONTRIBUTIONS SVC ORGANIZATIONS 0 45,553 0 0 45,553
CONTRIBUTIONS CULTURAL ORGS 0 30,000 0 0 30,000
LIBRARY
ADMINISTRATION 134,385 1,210 0 0 135,595
RBSEARCH AND CIRCULATION 650,474 265,063 0 0 915,537
AUTOMATION 0 63,361 0 0 63,361
JOINT BOTBTOURT/RgB CNTY LIB 0 27,600 0 0 27,600
BgTBNSION ~ CONTINUING EDUCATION 0 121,919 0 0 121,919
BLBCTIONS
REGISTRATION 99,166 24,404 5,400 0 128,970
BLBCTIONS 23,220 17,999 0 0 41,219
ANIMAL CONTROL 122,068 42,398 15,000
-
--- 0
------------- 179,486
-----------
------------
4,096,021 -------------
2,879,734 ------
-
26,550 0 7,002,305
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COUNTY OF ROANOB6
PROPOSED 1992-93 FISCAL MBAR BUDGET
APRIL 28, 1992
NON-DBPARTNBNTAL
BNPLOYBB BBNBFITS
NISCBLLANBOUS
TRANSFBRS TO OTHBR FUNDS
TRANS TO DEBT-GBNBRAL
TRANS TO DBBT SBRVICB-SCHOOL
TRANSFBR TO CAPITAL
TRANSFBR TO SCHOOL OPBRATING FUND
TRANSFBR TO SCHOOLS-DENTAL INS
TRANSFBR TO SCHOOLS-HBALTH INS
TRANSFBR TO GARAGB II
TRANSFBR T6 YOUTH HAVEN II
TRANSFBR TO INTBRNAL SBRVICB
TRANSFBR TO SBABR
BOARD CONTINGENCY
TOTAL GBNBRAL GOVERNNBNT
YOUTH HAVEN II
LAK LIBRARY
------------------------------------------------------------
PBRSONNBL OPBRATING CAPITAL TRANSFBRS TOTAL
------------------------------------------------------------
1,165,684 0 0 0 1,165,684
0 857,500 0 0
-------- 857,500
------------
-------------
1,165,684 -------------
857,500 ----------
0 ----
0 2,023,184
0 0 0 4,487,550 4,487,550
0 0 0 1,646,575 1,646,575
0 0 0 389,760 389,760
0 0 0 31,867,910 31,867,910
0 0 0 192,436 192,436
0 0 6 861,000 861,000
0 0 0 100,000 100,000
0 0 0 25,000 25,000
0 0 0 721,686 721,686
0 0 0 644,390
------- 644,390
------------
-------------
0 -------------
0 ----------
0 -----
40,936,307 40,936,307
0 50,000 0 0
--------- 50,000
------------
------------
0 --------------
50,000 ----------
0 ---
0
------- 50,000
------------
------------
19,505,430
------------ --------------
9,636,914
-------------- ----------
486,735
---------- -----
41,078,?53
------------ 70,707,832
------------
282,852 64,000 5,700 0 352,552
9,043 19,657 1,300 0 30,000
RBCRBATION FBB CLASS
CONNUNITY EDUCATION 138,532 45,700 2,000 0 186,232
LBISURB ACTIVITIES 15,232 16,300 1,200 0 32,732
OUTDOOR ADVBNTURB 4,844 23,700 5,000 0 33,544
SBNIOR CITIZENS 13,241 30,550 1,906 0 45,691
SPECIAL EVENTS 1,346 37,800 0 0 39,146
THBRAPBUTICS 9,295 7,505 200 0 17,000
ADULT ATHLETICS 42,419 15,750 0 0 58,169
YOUTH ATHLBTICS 1,782 2,312 6 0 4,094
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COUNTY OF ROANOHB
PROPOSBD 1992-93 FISCAL MBAR BUDGET
APRIL 28, 1992
ADMINISTRATION
PARg CONSERVATION
BQUBSTRIAN CBNTBR
TOTAL FE6 CLASS
INTBRNAL SBRYICBS
MANAGBMBNT INFORMATION SYSTBMS
ADMINISTRATION
OPERATIONS ~-
DBVBLOPMBNT
COMMUNICATIONS
TOTAL INTBRNAL SBRVICBS
GARAGB II
TOTAL GBNBRAL FUND
DEBT FUND
CAPITAL FUND
WATER FUND
WATER OPERATIONS
1991 WATBR RBVBNUB BONDS
WATER REPAIR AND RBPLACEMENT
RATB STABILIZATION
HATER SURPLUS
TOTAL WATER FUND
SBWBR FUND
SBWBR OPERATIONS
SBWBR OFFSITB FACILITIBS
TOTAL SBWBR FUND
TOTAL COUNTY FUNDS
------------
PBRSONNBL -------------
OPBRATING ------------------------
CAPITAL TRANSFBRS
-- -----------
TOTAL
----------
------------
0 -------------
32,240 ----------------------
0 0 -
32,240
o l,oo0 0 0 l,ooo
0
----------
- 3,000
------------- 0 0
------------------------ 3,000
-----------
-
226,691 215,857 10,300 0 452,848
156,765 11,300 0 0 168,065
84,503 192,800 12,875 97,207 387,385
246,547 5,750 2,850 0 255,147
208,811
-
------ 175,728
-------------- 27,391
---------- 0
------------ 411,930
------------
--
---
696,626 385,578 43,116 97,207 1,222,527
202,440 29,778
------------- 0
----------- 0
------------ 232,218
------------
------------
20,923,082
------------ 10,351,784
------------- 547,151
----------- 41,175,960
------------ 72,997,977
------------
0 7,929,491 0 0 7,929,491
0 0 439,760 0 439,760
548,848 3,680,070 118,010 1,636,874 5,983,802
0 127,453 0 0 127,453
0 0 350,000 0 350,000
0 309,414 0 0 309,414
0 797,584 0 0 797,58!
---------
-------------
548,848 ------------
!,914,521 -----------
468,010 -------------
1,636,874 --
7,568,253
797,074 2,493,949 46,400 72,339 3,409,762
0 0 0 116,394
--- 116,394
------------
------------
797,074
------------ -------------
2,493,949
------------- -----------
46,400
----------- ---------
188,733
------------ 3,526,156
------------
22,269,004
------------ 25,689,745
------------- 1,501,321
----------- 43,001,567
------------ 92,461,637
------------
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COUNTY OF ROANOXB
PROPOSBD.1992-93 FISCAL MBAR BUDGBT
APRIL 28, 1992
PBRSONNBL OPBRATING CAPITAL TRANSFBRS TOTAL
SCNOOL FUNDS
OPBRATING FUND 66,106,683
CAFBTBRIA FUND 2,861,370
GRANT FUND 2,125,671
TBXTBOOB FUND 532,858
CAPITAL FUND 67,500
TOTAL SCNOOL FUNDS 71,694,082
TOTAL 6XPBNDITURBS ALL FUNDS 164,155,719
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2. That the County Administrator may authorize the transfer
of any unencumbered balance or portion thereof from one
classification of expenditure to another within the same department
or agency. That the County Administrator may transfer up to
$10,000 from the unencumbered balance of the appropriation of one
department or agency to another department or agency, including the
contingency account encompassed in the Non-Departmental
appropriation.
3. That all funded outstanding encumbrances, both operating
and capital, at June 30, 1992, are reappropriated to the 1992-93
fiscal year to the same department and account for which they are
encumbered in the previous year.
4. That appropriations designated for capital projects will
not lapse at the end of the fiscal year but shall remain
appropriated until the completion of the project or until the Board
of Supervisors, by appropriate action, changes or eliminates the
appropriation. Upon completion of a capital project, staff is
authorized to close out the project and transfer to the funding
source any remaining balances. This section applies to
appropriations for Capital Projects at June 30, 1992, and
appropriations in the 1992-93 budget.
5. That all school fund appropriations remaining at the end
of the 1991-92 fiscal year not lapse but shall be appropriated to
the School Capital Improvements Fund in fiscal year 1992-93.
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ACTION NO.
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ITEM NO. ~~`'""'~'°°
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: ORDINANCE TO INCREASE THE SALARIES OF THE MEMBERS
OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE COUNTY
PURSUANT TO SECTION 3.07 OF THE ROANORE COUNTY
CHARTER AND SECTION 14.1-46.01:1 OF THE CODE OF
VIRGINIA
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
BACKGROUND•
In June of 1990, the Board adopted an ordinance to increase
its salaries pursuant to the provisions of Section 14.1-46.01:1 of
the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended. This section of the State
Code and Section 3.07 of the County Charter require that any
increase in Supervisors' salaries be accomplished by ordinance
after public hearing between May 1 and June 30. Any increase is
limited to an annual five (5~) percent inflation factor.
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
The first reading of this proposed ordinance is scheduled for
May 12, 1992; the second reading and public hearing is scheduled
for May 26, 1992.
The proposed salary for Board members will be increased by an
inflation factor of three (3~) percent from $9,245 to $9,522. In
addition, this ordinance establishes the additional annual
compensation for the Chairman of the Board at $1,800 and for the
Vice-Chairman at $1,200.
FISCAL IMPACTS•
Three (3~) percent, increase in Board salaries:
($277 each x 5 = $2,200)
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
None.
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Respectfully submitted,
~~~ ~ ~ ~~
Paul M. Mahoney
County Attorney
Approved ( )
Denied ( )
Received ( )
Referred
to
Action
Motion by
Vote
No Yes Abs
Eddy
Johnson
Kohinke
Nickens
Minnix
.,,
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE COUNTY,
VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER ON
TUESDAY, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
ORDINANCE TO INCREASE THE SALARIES OF T88
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVI8OR8 OF ROANORE
COUNTY PURSUANT TO SECTION 3.07 OF THE ROANORE
COUNTY CHARTER AND SECTION 14.1-46.01:1 OF THE
CODE OF VIRGINIA
WHEREAS, Section 3.07 of the Charter of the County of Roanoke
provides for the compensation of members of the Board of Supervi-
sors and the procedure for increasing their salaries; and
WHEREAS, Section 14.1-46.01:1 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as
amended, establishes the annual salaries of members of boards of
supervisors within certain population brackets; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia,
has heretofore established the annual salaries of Board members to
be $9,245 by Ordinance 61290-9 and further has established the
additional annual compensation for the chairman for the Board to be
$1,800 and for the vice-chairman of the Board to be $1,200; and
WHEREAS, this section provides that the maximum annual
salaries therein provided may be adjusted in any year by an
inflation factor not to exceed five (5~) percent; and
WHEREAS, a public hearing on the establishment of these
salaries will be held on May 26, 1992; and
WHEREAS, the first reading on this ordinance was held on May
12, 1992; the second reading was held on May 26, 1992.
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby ORDAINED by the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, that the annual salaries
of members of the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia,
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are hereby increased by an inflation factor of three (3$) percent
pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.07 of the Roanoke County
Charter and Section 14.1-46.01:1 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as
amended. The new annual salaries shall be $9,522 for members of
the Board. In addition, the chairman of the Board will receive an
additional annual sum of $1,800 and the vice-chairman of the Board
will receive an additional sum of $1,200.
This ordinance shall take effect on July 1, 1992.
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NO. ~~ '~
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE RECONVEYANCE OF A 0.470
ACRE TRACT OF REAL ESTATE, MORE OR LESS, LOCATED IN
THE SOUTHWEST INDUSTRIAL PARK
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY•
This is the first reading of the proposed ordinance to
authorize reconveyance of the remaining property located in the
Southwest Industrial Park to D. J. Higginbotham, Harriet H.
Higginbotham, David D. Higginbotham, Rita Higginbotham, Paul R.
Higginbotham, Martha Higginbotham, Ronald Higginbotham, Ella
Higginbotham, John Higginbotham, Shelly Higginbotham, Gerald J.
Higginbotham, Doris Higginbotham, ("Higginbothams") and Corrugated
Container Corporation.
BACKGROUND•
On August 4, 1986, the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County
entered into an Agreement with the Higginbothams and Corrugated
Container Corporation providing for conveyance of a 16.21 acre
parcel of real estate to Roanoke County. Roanoke County agreed to
undertake its best efforts to secure the approval, acceptance, and
maintenance of an industrial access road to serve this property and
to market the real estate as an industrial park (Southwest
Industrial Park). The Agreement provided for reconveyance of any
remaining property to the Higginbothams and Corrugated Container
Corporation upon termination of the Agreement.
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
The term of the Agreement has expired and the Higginbothams
and Corrugated Container Corporation have requested the reconvey-
ance of the remaining 0.470 acre parcel. The reconveyance would
be subject to the reservation of all recorded easements across the
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property known as "New Tract III B-4" and shown on a plat of record
in the Circuit Court Clerk's Office in Plat Book 11 at page 188.
FISCAL IMPACTS•
None.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the Board authorize the County Adminis-
trator to execute a deed for reconveyance of the remaining 0.470
acre parcel to the Higginbothams and Corrugated Container Corpora-
tion.
Respectfully submitted,
V ck' a L. H fm n
Assistant County Attorney
Approved ( )
Denied ( )
Received ( )
Referred
to
Motion by
Action
Eddy
Johnson
Kohinke
Nickens
Minnix
Vote
No Yes Abs
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE COUNTY,
VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER ON
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE RECONVEYANCE OF A 0.470
ACRE TRACT OF REAL ESTATE, MORE OR LESS, LOCATED IN
THE SOUTHWEST INDUSTRIAL PARK
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Agreement dated August 4, 1986, by and
between D. J. Higginbotham, Harriet H. Higginbotham, David D.
Higginbotham, Rita Higginbotham, Paul R. Higginbotham, Martha
Higginbotham, Ronald Higginbotham, Ella Higginbotham, John
Higginbotham, Shelly Higginbotham, Gerald J. Higginbotham, Doris
Higginbotham, ("Higginbothams") and Corrugated Container Corpora-
tion and the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County a 16.21 acre
tract of real estate was conveyed to Roanoke County in order that
the County could market this real estate as an industrial park
(Southwest Industrial Park); and
WHEREAS, said Agreement provided for termination of the
Agreement and reconveyance of any unsold property back to the
Higginbothams and Corrugated Container; and
WHEREAS, the term of the Agreement has expired and one parcel
of land, consisting of 0.470 acre, remains unsold; and
WHEREAS, the Higginbothams and Corrugated Container have
requested reconveyance of said parcel to Corrugated Container.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County,
Virginia, as follows:
1. That pursuant to the provisions of § 18.04 of the Roanoke
County Charter, the acquisition and disposition of real estate can
be authorized only by ordinance. A first reading of this ordinance
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was held on May 12, 1992; a second reading was held on May 26,
1992; and
2. That the conditions of the Agreement with the Higgin-
bothams and Corrugated Container render the subject property
unacceptable and unavailable for other public uses, and therefore,
pursuant to the provisions of § 16.01 of the Charter of Roanoke
County, the subject parcel of real estate is hereby declared to be
surplus; and
3. That pursuant to the provisions of the above-referenced
Agreement dated August 4, 1986, by and between the Higginbothams
and Corrugated Container Corporation and the Board of Supervisors
of Roanoke County, Virginia, the reconveyance to Corrugated
Container Corporation of the remaining 0.470 acre parcel of real
estate identified as "New Tract III-B4 - 0.470 Acres" on a plat
entitled "Survey of land for the Roanoke County Board of Supervi-
sors of New Tract III-2" dated June 19, 1989, of record in the
Circuit Court Clerk's Office in Plat Book 11 at page 188, be, and
hereby is approved; and
4. That this reconveyance is subject to the reservation of
all recorded easements as shown of the above-referenced plat; and
5. That the County Administrator is authorized to execute
such documents and take such actions on behalf of Roanoke County as
are necessary to accomplish the reconveyance of said property, all
of which shall be upon form approved by the County Attorney.
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION
CENTER ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
ORDINANCE 51292-6 AMENDING ORDINANCE 52891-12
REAPPORTIONING THE REPRESENTATION IN THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, BY
ALTERING THE BOUNDARIES OF CERTAIN ELECTION
DISTRICTS AND PRECINCTS BY ESTABLISHING A NEW
VOTING PRECINCT, INCORPORATING A MAP SHOWING
THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID DISTRICTS AND
PRECINCTS, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE
OF THIS ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, legal notice of a public hearing concerning the
adoption of an ordinance establishing certain revisions to
magisterial or election districts and precincts for the County of
Roanoke was provided as required by law; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 52891-12 was adopted by the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, on May 28, 1991; and
WHEREAS, subsequent to the adoption of said ordinance, the
General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Virginia made certain
changes in the boundaries of certain districts for representation
in the House of Delegates and Senate of the Virginia General
Assembly and the United States Congressional Districts, said
changes now require further amendments to election districts and
precincts in Roanoke County; and
WHEREAS, the first reading and public hearing on this
ordinance was held on April 28, 1992; the second reading was held
on May 12, 1992.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ordained by the Board of Supervisors of
Roanoke County, Virginia, as follows:
1. That there is established in Roanoke County five
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magisterial districts or election districts to be known and
designated as follows:
Catawba Magisterial District
Hollins Magisterial District
Vinton Magisterial District
Cave Spring Magisterial District
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
from each of which there shall be elected one member of the Board
of Supervisors of Roanoke County; and
2. That the outside boundaries of two of the five said
magisterial districts shall be amended as follows:
Catawba Magisterial District
Beginning at the common corner between Craig, Montgomery, and
Roanoke counties; thence with the line between Craig and Roanoke
counties along the crest of North and Brush Mountains in a nor-
theastern direction to the common corner in the line between
Roanoke, Craig, and Botetourt counties; thence with the line
between Roanoke and Botetourt counties in a southeasterly direction
to the southerly right-of-way line of Interstate 81; thence with
the southerly right-of-way of Interstate 81 and in a westerly
direction to its intersection with Interstate 581; thence in a
southerly direction with Interstate 581 to its intersection with
Virginia Route 117 (Peters Creek Road), said point being on the
northerly boundary of the City of Roanoke and the northerly right-
of-way of Virginia Route 117 (Peters Creek Road); thence in the
southwesterly direction of Virginia Route 117 (Peters Creek Road)
and with the City of Roanoke corporate lines to their intersection
with Cove Road; thence with Cove Road and with the City of Roanoke
corporate lines in a westerly and southwesterly direction to its
intersection with the east corporate line of the City of Salem;
thence with the east corporate line of the City of Salem in a
northwesterly direction to Virginia Primary Route 419 (Electric
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Road); thence with the east corporate line of the City of Salem and
Virginia Primary Route 419 (Electric Road) to Interstate 81 and the
north corporate line of the City of Salem; thence with the north
corporate line of the City of Salem and Interstate 81 in a south-
westerly direction to the west corporate line of the City of Salem;
thence with the corporate line of the City of Salem in a southerly
direction to a point of intersection with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road; thence in
a southerly direction with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road ~~~-~ ~-~- ~-~-e-s~t~
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to a point where it intersects
with a gas transmission line at the crest of Twelve O'Clock Knob
(elevation 2683); thence with the crest of Twelve O'Clock Knob and
with the crest of Poor Mountain, the dividing line between the
Catawba and the Windsor Hills Magisterial Districts, in a westerly
and southwesterly direction to its intersection with State
Secondary Route 612; thence following the ridge line of Poor
Mountain in a generally southwesterly direction to a point of
intersection with State Secondary Route 916 at the
Roanoke/Montgomery County line; thence with the Roanoke/Montgomery
County line in a northerly direction to the place of beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Beginning at a point on the east side of Virginia Primary
Route 419 (Electric Road) and the north side of Virginia Secondary
Highway 635 (Keagy Road) a common corner on the City of Salem/City
of Roanoke/Roanoke County boundary; thence with the west corporate
line of the City of Roanoke and the east side of Virginia Primary
Route 419 (Electric Road) in a south-southeasterly direction to the
intersection of Virginia Highway 713 (Glen Heather Road); thence
with the west corporate line of the City of Roanoke and the south
side of Virginia Highway 713 (Glen Heather Road) in an easterly
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direction to the intersection with State Secondary Route 686
(Grandin Road Extension); thence with the west corporate line of
the City of Roanoke and the south side of State Secondary Route 686
(Grandin Road Extension) in an easterly direction to the west
outside boundary of Taryn Hill Subdivision; thence with the west
corporate line of the City of Roanoke to Garst Mill Road; thence
with the west corporate line of the City of Roanoke and the south
side of Garst Mill Road in an east-northeasterly direction to the
intersection of Grandin Road Extension; thence with the west
corporate line of the City of Roanoke and the south side of Grandin
Road Extension in an easterly direction to the center of Mudlick
Creek; thence with the west corporate line of the City of Roanoke
to U. S. Highway 221; thence leaving the corporate line of the City
of Roanoke and with U. S. Highway 221 in a southwesterly direction
to State Secondary Route 690; thence southerly with State Secondary
Route 690 to State Secondary Route 691; thence with State Secondary
Route 691 in a southerly direction to the Roanoke/Franklin County
line; thence with the Roanoke/Franklin County line as it meanders
in a southwesterly direction along the crest of the Blue Ridge
Mountains to its intersection with the Roanoke/Floyd County line;
thence with the Roanoke/Floyd County line westerly to its intersec-
tion with the common corner of the Roanoke/Montgomery/Floyd county
line; thence with the Roanoke/Montgomery County line in a northerly
direction to the crest of Poor Mountain at its intersection with
State Secondary Route 916; thence following the crest of Poor
Mountain in a generally northeasterly direction; thence continuing
along the crest of Poor Mountain and Twelve O'Clock Knob to a point
where a gas transmission line crosses the crest of Twelve O'Clock
Knob (elevation 2683 ) at Twelve O'Clock Knob Road; thence with Twelve
O'Clock Knob Road in a northerly direction to its intersection with ~=ire-ice
the corporate line of the
City of Salem;
i2ea~; thence with the corporate line of the City of Salem in an
easterly and northerly direction to Virginia Secondary Highway 685
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(Keagy Road); thence in a northerly and easterly direction with
Virginia Secondary Highway 685 (Keagy Road) to its intersection
with Virginia Primary Route 419 to the place of beginning.
3. That the outside boundaries of the ten (10) of the
existing thirty (30) voting precincts shall be amended as follows:
Botetourt Springs Precinct - 204
Beginning at the southerly right-of-way of Interstate 81 and
Deer Branch Creek; thence south with Deer Branch Creek to Virginia
Route 117 (Peters Creek Road); thence with Virginia Route 117
(Peters Creek Road) in a westerly direction to the west fork of
Carvin Creek; thence with the west fork of Carvin Creek in a
northwesterly then southwesterly direction a-~~e~~ely 1; On.^_.~ =~-~ to a
point where the center line of *~re-~~es°~~~essh~~~- '"~~ ~' ,
Whispering Pines Drive, if extended, would intersect the said west fork
of Carvin Creek; thence with the center line of mess "'~-'~~~~~ '"~~~'
Whispering Pines Drive extended in a southwesterly direction to
existing ~s-s-~~me~s~ai~;- Whispering Pines Drive; thence with E~egs
=tee-~s~~ Whispering Pines Drive in a southwesterly direction to its
intersection with Virginia Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road);
thence with State Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road) west to the
west right-of-way of Interstate Route 581; thence north with the
west right-of-way line of Interstate Route 581 to Interstate Route
81; thence east with the southerly right-of-way of Interstate 81 to
tire-~e~~z~~re~Fe~e-~i~e-b~i-ng the place of beginning.
Hollins Magisterial District
Hollins Fire Station - Voting Place
Garst Mill Precinct - 306
Beginning at a point on Virginia Primary Route 419 where the west
fork of Mud Lick Creek crosses Route 419; ~-Ee~e~P~~o e;-t-~ ' ~-~-
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~~-=?~ ~-.=v; thence with the west fork of Mud Lick Creek as it
meanders in a northeasterly direction to the southerly corporate
line of the City of Roanoke; thence with the corporate line of the
City of Roanoke in a northeasterly and southeasterly direction to
a point where it crosses U. S. Highway 221 (Brambleton Avenue);
thence with U. S. Highway 221 (Brambleton Avenue) in a
southwesterly direction to its intersection with Virginia Primary
Route 419 ; thence with Virginia Primary Route 419 in a northwester-
ly direction to the place of beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Library Headquarters - Voting Place
Green Hill Precinct - 106
Beginning at a point on U.S. Interstate 81 at its intersection
with Secondary Route 640 and opposite and north of the City of
Salem corporate limits; thence south to the west corporate line of
the City of Salem; thence with the west corporate line of the City
of Salem in a southerly direction and with the south corporate line
of the City of Salem in an easterly and southerly direction to its
intersection with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road;
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direction to a point where it intersects
with a gas transmission line at the crest of 3-~ Twelve O'Clock Knob
(elevation 2683); thence with the crest of 3~ Twelve O'Clock Knob
and with the crest of Poor Mountain, the dividing line between
Catawba and the Windsor Hills Magisterial District, in a westerly
and southwesterly direction to the intersection of State Secondary
Route 612; thence following the crest of Poor
Mountain in a generally southwesterly direction to its intersection
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with State Secondary Route 916 on the Montgomery/Roanoke County
line; thence with the Montgomery/Roanoke County line in a northerly
direction to U.S. Interstate 81; thence in a northeasterly
direction with U.S. Interstate 81 to the point of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Fort Lewis Fire Station - Voting Place
Mason Valley Precinct - 102
Beginning at a point on the Roanoke/Montgomery County line at
its intersection with Bradshaw Road (Route 622); thence in an easterly direction
with Bradshaw Road to its intersection with Old Catawba Road; thence north with
Old Catawba Road to its intersection with Mason's Creek; thence with Mason's
Creek in a southerly direction to its intersection with Plunkett Road; thence in an
easterly direction with Plunkett Road to its intersection with Virginia Route 311;
thence in a southerly direction with Virginia Route 311 to
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of Fort Lewis Mountain; thence leaving Virginia Route 311 with the
topographic crest of Fort Lewis Mountain in a westerly direction to
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the Roanoke/Montgomery County line; thence with the
Roanoke/Montgomery County line in a northwesterly direction to the
place of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Mason Cove Elementary School - Voting Place
Northside Precinct - 104
Beginning at a point at the intersection of Interstate 581 and
State Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road) ; thence in a northwest-
erly direction with State Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road) to
its intersection with Virginia Secondary Route 629 (Green Ridge
Road); thence in a southerly direction with Green Ridge Road to its
intersection with Twilight Road; thence in an easterly direction with Twilight
Road to its intersection with North Lake Drive; thence in a southeasterly direction
with North Lake Drive ,
to its intersection with Virginia Route 117 (Peters Creek
Road); said point being on the northern boundary of the City of
Roanoke and the northern right-of-way of Peters Creek Road; thence
with the northerly right-of-way of Virginia Secondary Route 117
(Peters Creek Road) and partially with the corporate line of the
City of Roanoke to the intersection of the northerly right-of-way
line of Virginia Highway 117 (Peters Creek Road) with Interstate
581; thence in a northerly direction with Interstate 581 to the
place of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Northside High School - Voting Place
Oak Grove Precinct - 304
Beginning at a point on the east side of Virginia Primary
Route 419 (Electric Road) and on the north side of Virginia
Secondary Highway 685 (Keagy Road) being a point on the City of
Salem/City of Roanoke/Roanoke County boundary; thence with the west
corporate line of the City of Roanoke and the east side of Virginia
Primary Route 419 (Electric Road) in a south-southeasterly direc-
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tion to the intersection with State Secondary Route 1316 (Stoney-
brook Drive); thence in a southwesterly direction with State
Secondary Route 1316 (Stoneybrook Drive) to State Secondary Route
702 (Castle Rock Road); thence in an easterly direction with State
Secondary Route 702 (Castle Rock Road) to State Secondary Route
1688 (Longhorn Road); thence south with State Secondary Route 1688
(Longhorn Road) to State Secondary Route 1687 (Brahma Road); thence
southeast with State Secondary Route 1687 (Brahma Road) to the
crossing of the Appalachian Power Company high tension Glen Lyn-
Hancock electric transmission line; thence with the Appalachian
Power Company high tension Glen Lyn-Hancock electric transmission
line in a southwesterly direction to State Secondary Route 689
(Roselawn Road); thence northwest with State Secondary Route 689
(Roselawn Road) to State Secondary Route 692; thence west with
State Secondary Route 692 (Mount Chestnut Road) to the crossing
location of a gas pipeline; thence with this gas pipeline in a
northerly and then westerly direction to its intersection with the
crest of 12 o'clock Knob (elevation 2683) at Twelve O'Clock Knob
Road ; thence with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road~~ in a northerly
direction to the corporate line
of the City of Salem; n~~t~~~~~~~nin~-e~~'-~z~e~e-'~3-G
thence with the s~s~13 corporate line of the City of
Salem in an easterly direction to the place of beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Oak Grove Elementary School - Voting Place
Peters Creek Precinct - 105
Beginning at a point on Route 628 (Wood Haven Road) where the
said Route 628 crosses the western right-of-way line of U.S. Route
581; thence north with the west right-of-way line of Interstate 581
crossing Interstate Route 81 and the intersection of Route 81
service road (Loch Haven Drive) to the intersection of the road to
Loch Haven Country Club; thence north with the road to Loch Haven
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Country Club to State Secondary Route 1404; thence in a westerly
direction with State Secondary Route 1404 to the City of Roanoke
Water Department west property line; thence north with the City of
Roanoke Water Department west property line to the topographic
crest of Brushy Mountain; thence with the topographic crest of
Brushy Mountain in a southwesterly direction crossing Mason Creek
to the intersection of Virginia Route 311 and State Secondary Route
683; thence north with Virginia Route 311 to the topographic crest
of Fort Lewis Mountain; thence leaving Virginia Route 311 and with
the topographic crest of Fort Lewis Mountain in a ~ewesterly
direction approximately 13,000 feet intersecting a hollow which is
the east fork of Dry Branch and an existing fire trail; thence with
the hollow which is the east fork of Dry Branch in a southerly
direction as it meanders to a point where Dry Branch divides into
an east and west fork at the north corporate line of the City of
Salem; thence with the north corporate line of the City of Salem
and in a generally northeasterly direction to its intersection with
State Route 419 (Electric Road); thence with the east corporate
line of the City of Salem in a south-northeasterly direction to a
point on the City of Salem, Roanoke County, and City of Roanoke
line at Green Ridge Road; thence in a southeasterly direction with
Green Ridge Road to its intersection with Cove Road; thence in an
easterly direction with Cove Road to its intersection with Peters Creek
Road: thence in a northeasterly direction with Peters Creek Road to its intersection
with North Lake Drive; thence in a northwesterly direction with North Lake Drive
to its intersection with Twilight Road; thence in a westerly direction with Twilight
Road to its intersection with Green Ridge Road; thence north with
Green Ridge Road to its intersection with Wood Haven Road; thence
east with Wood Haven Road to the place of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Glen Cove Elementary School - Voting Place
Poages Mill Precinct - 302
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Beginning at a point on the western right-of-way of U. S.
Highway 221 (Brambleton Avenue) and its intersection with Ran Lynn
Road; thence in a northwesterly direction with Ran Lynn Road to its
intersection with State Route 690 (South Roselawn Road); thence
with State Secondary Route 690 (South Roselawn Road) in a north-
easterly direction to its intersection with State Route 689
(Roselawn Road); thence in a northerly direction with State Route
689 (Roselawn Road) to State Secondary Route 692; thence west with
State Secondary Route 692 (Mount Chestnut Road) to the crossing
location of a gas pipeline; thence with this gas pipeline in a
northerly then westerly direction to its intersection with the crest
of Twelve O'Clock Knob (elevation 2683); thence with the
topographic crest of Twelve O'Clock Knob and Poor Mountain in a
westerly-southwesterly direction to State Secondary Route 612;
thence in a generally southeasterly direction down the slope of
Poor Mountain to an elevation of 2800 feet; thence following the
2800-foot contour elevation of Poor and Bent Mountains in a
generally southern direction to the contours point of intersection
with Appalachian Power Company high-tension Roanoke-Claytor
transmission line; thence easterly with the Appalachian Power
Company high tension Roanoke-Claytor transmission line down the
slope of Bent Mountain to the topographic elevation 2,000 feet at
a branch of Back Creek; thence with the topographic elevation 2,000
feet as it traverses in a southeasterly direction with the base of
Bent Mountain to Dividing Spring Branch; thence southerly with
Dividing Spring Branch as it meanders to the Roanoke/Franklin
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County line; thence with the Roanoke/Franklin County line easterly
to its intersection with State Secondary Route 691; thence in a
northerly direction with State Secondary Route 691 to its intersec-
tion with State Secondary Route 690; thence in a northerly
direction with State Secondary Route 690 to the intersection of
U . S . Highway 2 21; thence with U . S . Highway 2 21 to the place of
beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Back Creek Elementary School - Voting Place
Windsor Hills Precinct - 303
Beginning at the City of Roanoke corporate line where Virginia
Primary Route 419 (Electric Road) intersects Glen Heather Drive;
thence easterly then southerly with the corporate line of the City of
Roanoke to a point where the said corporate line intersects Mud
Lick Creek; thence with the west fork of Mud Lick
Creek as it meanders in a southwesterly direction
~~~s~ze~ee~e~~~e~ eee~rel~~e~
~~ ~- '~~ ^~~~ to Virginia Primary
Ee-~~-m ire-;- t~ie~tee~es~~-~e~de=~4~e
Route 419 (Electric Road); thence north with Virginia Primary Route
419 (Electric Road); to the place of beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church - Voting Place
Woodlands Precinct - 207
Beginning at a point on the northerly right-of-way of Virginia
Highway 117 (Peters Creek Road) where the fork of Carvin Creek
crosses said Peters Creek Road; thence with the west fork of Carvin
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Creek in a northwesterly then southwesterly direction ,
€ee~ to a point where the center line of
m~LlT~ Whispering Pines Drive, if extended, would intersect said west
fork of Carvin Creek; thence with the center line of ^-~~-- "'~-'~"'~"
~ Whispering Pines Drive extended in a southwesterly direction to
the true centerline of the existing ~~e~~rm~~-~~ Whispering
Pines Drive; thence with the center line of ~-r-e~^.rTi-~~~s
Whispering Pines Drive in a southwesterly direction to its intersection with
Virginia Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road); thence in a
northwesterly direction with Virginia Secondary Route 628 (Wood
Haven Road) to its intersection with Interstate 581; thence south
with Interstate 581 to its intersection with Virginia Route 117
(Peters Creek Road); thence in an easterly direction with Virginia
Route 117 (Peters Creek Road) to the place of Beginning.
Hollins Magisterial District
Northside Junior High School - Voting Place
4. That there is hereby established a new voting precinct to
be known as Bennett Springs Precinct with outside boundaries as
follows:
BENNETT SPRINGS PRECINCT - 107
Beginning at a point on the Roanoke/Montgomery County line at
the top of Catawba Mountain; thence with the crest of Catawba
Mountain in an easterly direction to the top of McAfee Knob; thence
with the crest of Tinker Mountain in an easterly direction to the
Roanoke/Botetourt County line; thence with the Roanoke/Botetourt
County line in a southeasterly direction to the southerly right-of-
way of Interstate 81; thence west with Interstate 81 to its
intersection with a service road identified as Loch Haven Drive;
thence north with Loch Haven Drive to Loch Haven Country Club;
thence north with the road to Loch Haven Country Club to State
Secondary Route 1404; thence in a westerly direction with State
Secondary Route 1404 to the City of Roanoke Water Department west
property line; thence north with the City of Roanoke Water Depart-
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ment west property line to the topographic crest of Brushy Moun-
tain; thence with the crest of Brushy Mountain in a southwesterly
direction crossing Mason's Creek to the intersection of Virginia
Route 311 at its intersection with State Secondary Route 863;
thence north with Virginia Route 311 to Plunkett Road; thence west
with Plunkett Road to a point where Mason's Creek crosses under
Plunkett Road; thence in a north-northwesterly direction with
Mason's Creek to its intersection with Old Catawba Road; thence
south with Old Catawba Road to its intersection with Bradshaw Road;
thence with Bradshaw Road in a westerly direction to the Roanoke/
Montgomery County line; thence with the Roanoke/Montgomery County
line in a northwesterly direction to the place of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Roanoke Moose Lodge #284 - Voting Place
3233 Catawba Valley Drive
5. That the effective date of this ordinance shall be
July 1, 1992.
On motion of Supervisor Kohinke to adopt the ordinance, and
carried by the following recorded vote:
AYES: Supervisors Kohinke, Minnix, Nickens, Eddy,
NAYS: Supervisor Johnson
A COPY TESTE:
Mary H. llen, Clerk
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
cc: File
Paul Mahoney, County Attorney
Terry Harrington, Director, Planning & Zoning
Elizabeth Leah, Registrar
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AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
RESOLUTION 51292-8 CERTIFYING EXECUTIVE MEETING WAS
HELD IN CONFORMITY WITH THE CODE OF VIRGINIA
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County,
Virginia has convened an executive meeting on this date pursuant to
an affirmative recorded vote and in accordance with the provisions
of The Virginia Freedom of Information Act; and
WHEREAS, Section 2.1-344.1 of the Code of Virginia
requires a certification by the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke
County, Virginia, that such executive meeting was conducted in
conformity with Virginia law.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, hereby certifies that, to
the best of each members knowledge:
1. Only public business matters lawfully exempted from
open meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed in the
executive meeting which this certification resolution applies, and
2. Only such public business matters as were identified
in the motion convening the executive meeting were heard, discussed
or considered by the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County,
Virginia.
On motion of Supervisor Johnson to adopt the resolution,
and carried by the following recorded vote:
AYES: Supervisors Johnson, Kohinke, Minnix, Nickens, Eddy,
NAYS: None
A COPY TESTE:
7~ .
Mary H. Allen, Clerk
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
cc: File
Executive Session
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NO. "'`
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 52891-12
REAPPORTIONING THE REPRESENTATION IN THE BOARD OF
BIIPERVIBORS OF ROANORE COIINTY, VIRGINIA, BY
ALTERING THE BOIINDARIES OF CERTAIN ELECTION
DISTRICTS AND PRECINCTS BY ESTABLISHING A NEW
VOTING PRECINCT, INCORPORATING A MAP SHOWING THE
BOIINDARIEB OF BAZD DISTRICTS AND PRECINCTS, AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
EXECUTIVE SUNIlKARY
The first reading of a proposed amendment to the redistricting
ordinance is submitted to the Board of Supervisors for its
consideration. A public hearing on this amendment was advertised
for April 28, 1992.
Section 24.1-39 of the State Code provides that no change or
alteration of county election districts or precincts shall be made
until notice has been published in a newspaper having general
circulation in such election district or precinct once a week for
two successive weeks. Therefore, the second reading on this
amending ordinance is scheduled for May 12, 1992.
BACKGROUND•
Ordinance 52891-12 was adopted by the Board of Supervisors of
Roanoke County, Virginia, on May 28, 1991.
Subsequent to the adoption of said ordinance, the General
Assembly for the Commonwealth of Virginia made certain changes in
the boundaries of certain districts for representation in the House
of Delegates and Senate of the Virginia General Assembly and the
United States Congressional Districts. Those changes now require
further amendments to election districts and precincts in Roanoke
County.
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SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
This amending ordinance makes five changes to Ordinance 52891-
12, and these changes effect two election districts and ten
precincts. The goal of these changes is to conform with General
Assembly and Congressional boundary lines and to avoid "split"
precincts (a single precinct being split between several different
State or Federal districts).
1) Change the boundary between the Catawba and Windsor Hills
Magisterial Districts and the precinct boundaries between Green
Hill, Oak Grove and Poages Mill Precincts. This proposed change
shifts the magisterial district boundary and the boundary between
Green Hill and Oak Grove Precincts west to Twelve O'Clock Knob
Road. Also it adjusts the boundary between Poages Mill and Oak
Grove Precincts to the census block line (the gas pipeline) to
conform with census map boundaries.
This proposed change is necessary as a result of congressional
redistricting and mapping discrepancies. Smaller scale maps
showing these changes are attached to this report (Map 1 and 1a).
2) Divide the existing Mason Valley Precinct (Catawba
Magisterial District) into two precincts: Mason Valley and Bennett
Springs Precincts. This proposed change divides the existing
Mason Valley Precinct along a line from Montgomery County -
Bradshaw Road - Old Catawba Road - Mason's Creek - Plunkett Road -
Rt. 311 and creates a new precint from the remainder of the old
precinct. The voting place for the reduced Mason Valley Precint
will continue to be Mason Cove Elementary School; the voting place
for the new Bennett Springs Precinct will be the Roanoke Moose
Lodge #284.
This proposed change is necessary as a result of congressional
redistricting. Bent Mountain, Poages Mill, Green Hill, Glenvar
and a portion of Mason Valley Precints were placed in the 9th
Congressional District. This proposal will avoid splitting the old
precinct bewteen two congressional districts.
3) Change the boundary bewteen the Windsor Hills and Garst
Mill Precincts (Windsor Hills Magisterial District). This
proposed change shifts the precinct boundary to Mud Lick Creek from
Cordell Drive, Old McVitty Road and Cresthill Drive.
This proposed change conforms to census block lines and avoids
splitting a precinct between the 8th and the 16th House of
Delegates districts. It shifts approximately 100 citizens bewteen
these precincts. A smaller scale map showing this change is
attached to the report (Map 3).
4) Change the boundary between the Northside and Peters
Creek Precincts (Catawba Magisterial District). This proposed
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change shifts the precinct boundary from Cove Road to Twilight Road
and North Lake Drive and places a portion of North Lakes
subdivision into the Peters Creek Precinct.
This proposed change conforms to census block lines and avoids
splitting a precinct between the 14th and 17th House of Delegates
districts. A smaller scale map showing this change is attached to
the report (Map 4).
5) Change the boundary between the Botetourt Springs and
Woodlands Precincts (Hollins Magisterial District). This proposed
change shifts the precinct boundary from Cross Timbers Trail (and
an imaginary extension of this street to Garvin Creek) to
Whispering Pines Drive (and an imaginary extension of this street
to Garvin Creek).
This proposal effects approximately 300 citizens, it attempts
to conform with a census block line, and it avoids splitting a
precinct between the 14th and 17th House of Delegates and 21st and
22nd Senate districts. A smaller scale map showing this change is
attached to the report (Map 5).
The 1992 session of the Virginia General Assembly adopted
several technical amendments to the Congressional redistricting
plan. The State has submitted these General Assembly and
Congressional redistricting plans to the U. S. Justice Department
for preclearance approval as required by the Voting Rights Act.
It appears that the U. S. Attorney General will not interpose any
objections to these submittals.
If the Board approves and adopts this ordinance, then staff
shall prepare the appropriate submission to Justice Department in
compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board hold the advertised public
hearing, and favorably consider the adoption of this ordinance.
Respectfully submitted,
Paul M. Mahoney
County Attorney
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION
CENTER ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 52891-12
REAPPORTIONING THE REPRESENTATION IN THE BOARD
OF BIIPERVISORB OF ROANORE COIINTY, VIRGINIA, BY
ALTERING THE BOIINDARIES OF CERTAIN ELECTION
DISTRICTS AND PRECINCTS BY ESTABLISHING A NEW
VOTING PRECINCT, INCORPORATING A MAP SHOWING
THE BOIINDARIES OF SAID DISTRICTB AND
PRECINCTS, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE
OF THIS ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, legal notice of a public hearing concerning the
adoption of an ordinance establishing certain revisions to
magisterial or election districts and precincts for the County of
Roanoke was provided as required by law; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 52891-12 was adopted by the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, on May 28, 1991; and
WHEREAS, subsequent to the adoption of said ordinance, the
General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Virginia made certain
changes in the boundaries of certain districts for representation
in the House of Delegates and Senate of the Virginia General
Assembly and the United States Congressional Districts, said
changes now require further amendments to election districts and
precincts in Roanoke County; and
WHEREAS, the first reading and public hearing on this
ordinance was held on April 28, 1992; the second reading was held
on May 12, 1992.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ordained by the Board of Supervisors of
Roanoke County, Virginia, as follows:
1. That there is established in Roanoke County five
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magisterial districts or election districts to be known and
designated as follows:
Catawba Magisterial District
Hollins Magisterial District
Vinton Magisterial District
Cave Spring Magisterial District
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
from each of which there shall be elected one member of the Board
of Supervisors of Roanoke County; and
2. That the outside boundaries of two of the five said
magisterial districts shall be amended as follows:
Catawba Magisterial District
Beginning at the common corner between Craig, Montgomery, and
Roanoke counties; thence with the line between Craig and Roanoke
counties along the crest of North and Brush Mountains in a nor-
theastern direction to the common corner in the line between
Roanoke, Craig, and Botetourt counties; thence with the line
between Roanoke and Botetourt counties in a southeasterly direction
to the southerly right-of-way line of Interstate 81; thence with
the southerly right-of-way of Interstate 81 and in a westerly
direction to its intersection with Interstate 581; thence in a
southerly direction with Interstate 581 to its intersection with
Virginia Route 117 (Peters Creek Road), said point being on the
northerly boundary of the City of Roanoke and the northerly right-
of-way of Virginia Route 117 (Peters Creek Road); thence in the
southwesterly direction of Virginia Route 117 (Peters Creek Road)
and with the City of Roanoke corporate lines to their intersection
with Cove Road; thence with Cove Road and with the City of Roanoke
corporate lines in a westerly and southwesterly direction to its
intersection with the east corporate line of the City of Salem;
thence with the east corporate line of the City of Salem in a
northwesterly direction to Virginia Primary Route 419 (Electric
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Road); thence with the east corporate line of the City of Salem and
Virginia Primary Route 419 (Electric Road) to Interstate 81 and the
north corporate line of the City of Salem; thence with the north
corporate line of the City of Salem and Interstate 81 in a south-
westerly direction to the west corporate line of the City of Salem;
thence with the corporate line of the City of Salem in a southerly
direction to a point of intersection with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road; thence in
a southerly direction with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road
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with a gas transmission line at the crest of Twelve O'Clock Knob
(elevation 2683); thence with the crest of Twelve O'Clock Knob and
with the crest of Poor Mountain, the dividing line between the
Catawba and the Windsor Hills Magisterial Districts, in a westerly
and southwesterly direction to its intersection with State
Secondary Route 612; thence following the ridge line of Poor
Mountain in a generally southwesterly direction to a point of
intersection with State Secondary Route 916 at the
Roanoke/Montgomery County line; thence with the Roanoke/Montgomery
County line in a northerly direction to the place of beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Beginning at a point on the east side of Virginia Primary
Route 419 (Electric Road) and the north side of Virginia Secondary
Highway 635 (Keagy Road) a common corner on the City of Salem/City
of Roanoke/Roanoke County boundary; thence with the west corporate
line of the City of Roanoke and the east side of Virginia Primary
Route 419 (Electric Road) in a south-southeasterly direction to the
intersection of Virginia Highway 713 (Glen Heather Road); thence
with the west corporate line of the City of Roanoke and the south
side of Virginia Highway 713 (Glen Heather Road) in an easterly
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direction to the intersection with State Secondary Route 686
(Grandin Road Extension); thence with the west corporate line of
the City of Roanoke and the south side of State Secondary Route 686
(Grandin Road Extension) in an easterly direction to the west
outside boundary of Taryn Hill Subdivision; thence with the west
corporate line of the City of Roanoke to Garst Mill Road; thence
with the west corporate line of the City of Roanoke and the south
side of Garst Mill Road in an east-northeasterly direction to the
intersection of Grandin Road Extension; thence with the west
corporate line of the City of Roanoke and the south side of Grandin
Road Extension in an easterly direction to the center of Mudlick
Creek; thence with the west corporate line of the City of Roanoke
to U. S. Highway 221; thence leaving the corporate line of the City
of Roanoke and with U. S. Highway 221 in a southwesterly direction
to State Secondary Route 690; thence southerly with State Secondary
Route 690 to State Secondary Route 691; thence with State Secondary
Route 691 in a southerly direction to the Roanoke/Franklin County
line; thence with the Roanoke/Franklin County line as it meanders
in a southwesterly direction along the crest of the Blue Ridge
Mountains to its intersection with the Roanoke/Floyd County line;
thence with the Roanoke/Floyd County line westerly to its intersec-
tion with the common corner of the Roanoke/Montgomery/Floyd county
line; thence with the Roanoke/Montgomery County line in a northerly
direction to the crest of Poor Mountain at its intersection with
State Secondary Route 916; thence following the crest of Poor
Mountain in a generally northeasterly direction; thence continuing
along the crest of Poor Mountain and Twelve O'Clock Knob to a point
where a gas transmission line crosses the crest of Twelve O'Clock
Knob (elevation 2683) at Twelve O'Clock Knob Road; thence with Twelve
O'Clock Knob Road in a northerly direction to its intersection with ~~n
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i~eael}-t thence with the corporate line of the City of Salem in an
easterly and northerly direction to Virginia Secondary Highway 685
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(Keagy Road); thence in a northerly and easterly direction with
Virginia Secondary Highway 685 (Keagy Road) to its intersection
with Virginia Primary Route 419 to the place of beginning.
3. That the outside boundaries of the ten (10) of the
existing thirty (30) voting precincts shall be amended as follows:
Botetourt Springs Precinct - 204
Beginning at the southerly right-of-way of Interstate 81 and
Deer Branch Creek; thence south with Deer Branch Creek to Virginia
Route 117 (Peters Creek Road); thence with Virginia Route 117
(Peters Creek Road) in a westerly direction to the west fork of
Carvin Creek; thence with the west fork of Carvin Creek in a
northwesterly then southwesterly direction to a
point where the center line of *~re-~~e~eZ ~~-e~~~s
Whispering Pines Drive, if extended, would intersect the said west fork
of Carvin Creek; thence with the center line of ;-__= '"'__L___ m___,
Whispering Pines Drive extended in a southwesterly direction to
existing "-- '"~-'~- '"- '~ Whispering Pines Drive; thence with E~e~s
~-i~,?e~s~~ Whispering Pines Drive in a southwesterly direction to its
intersection with Virginia Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road);
thence with State Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road) west to the
west right-of-way of Interstate Route 581; thence north with the
west right-of-way line of Interstate Route 581 to Interstate Route
81; thence east with the southerly right-of-way of Interstate 81 to
L~ o_~..~_ ~.,. ,,,- _,_ ,... _~._ L- the place of beginning.
Hollins Magisterial District
Hollins Fire Station - Voting Place
Garst Mill Precinct - 306
Beginning at a point on Virginia Primary Route 419 where the west
fork of Mud Lick Creek crosses Route 419; ~; ee~ a~~i1~-- • }''°---- • •~ L'-
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L-ie~~T thence with the west fork of Mud Lick Creek as it
meanders in a northeasterly direction to the southerly corporate
line of the City of Roanoke; thence with the corporate line of the
City of Roanoke in a northeasterly and southeasterly direction to
a point where it crosses U. S. Highway 221 (Brambleton Avenue);
thence with U. S. Highway 221 (Brambleton Avenue) in a
southwesterly direction to its intersection with Virginia Primary
Route 419; thence with Virginia Primary Route 419 in a northwester-
ly direction to the place of beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Library Headquarters - Voting Place
Green Hill Precinct - 106
Beginning at a point on U. S . Interstate 81 at its intersection
with Secondary Route 640 and opposite ana norLn of tine t;izy of
Salem corporate limits; thence south to the west corporate line of
the City of Salem; thence with the west corporate line of the City
of Salem in a southerly direction and with the south corporate line
of the City of Salem in an easterly and southerly direction tolts
intersection with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road;
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thence with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road in a southerly a
direction to a point where it intersects
with a gas transmission line at the crest of 3~ Twelve O'Clock Knob
(elevation 2683); thence with the crest of 3~ Twelve O'Clock Knob
and with the crest of Poor Mountain, the dividing line between
Catawba and the Windsor Hills Magisterial District, in a westerly
and southwesterly direction to the intersection of State Secondary
Route 612; thence following the crest of Poor
Mountain in a generally southwesterly direction to its intersection
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with State Secondary Route 916 on the Montgomery/Roanoke County
line; thence with the Montgomery/Roanoke County line in a northerly
direction to U.S. Interstate 81; thence in a northeasterly
direction with U.S. Interstate 81 to the point of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Fort Lewis Fire Station - Voting Place
Mason Valley Precinct - 102
Beginning at a point on the Roanoke/Montgomery County line at
its intersection with Bradshaw Road (Route 622); thence in an easterly direction
with Bradshaw Road to its intersection with Old Catawba Road; thence north with
Old Catawba Road to its intersection with Mason's Creek; thence with Mason's
Creek in a southerly direction to its intersection with Plunkett Road; thence in an
easterly direction with Plunkett Road to its intersection with Virginia Route 311;
thence in a southerly direction with Virginia Route 311 to
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of Fort Lewis Mountain; thence leaving Virginia Route 311 with the
topographic crest of Fort Lewis Mountain in a westerly direction to
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the Roanoke/Montgomery County line; thence with the
Roanoke/Montgomery County line in a northwesterly direction to the
place of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Mason Cove Elementary School - Voting Place
Nortbside Precinct - 104
Beginning at a point at the intersection of Interstate 581 and
State Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road); thence in a northwest-
erly direction with State Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road) to
its intersection with Virginia Secondary Route 629 (Green Ridge
Road); thence in a southerly direction with Green Ridge Road to its
intersection with Twilight Road; thence in an easterly direction with Twilight
Road to its intersection with North Lake Drive; thence in a southeasterly direction
with North Lake Drive ^ '' t-~e~ --L~--~ - a _ __L; .._ _.~ LL
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to its intersection with Virginia Route 117 (Peters Creek
Road) ; said point being on the northern boundary of the City of
Roanoke and the northern right-of-way of Peters Creek Road; thence
with the northerly right-of-way of Virginia Secondary Route 117
(Peters Creek Road) and partially with the corporate line of the
City of Roanoke to the intersection of the northerly right-of-way
line of Virginia Highway 117 (Peters Creek Road) with Interstate
581; thence in a northerly direction with Interstate 581 to the
place of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Northside High School - Voting Place
Oak Grove Precinct - 304
Beginning at a point on the east side of Virginia Primary
Route 419 (Electric Road) and on the north side of Virginia
Secondary Highway 685 (Keagy Road) being a point on the City of
Salem/City of Roanoke/Roanoke County boundary; thence with the west
corporate line of the City of Roanoke and the east side of Virginia
Primary Route 419 (Electric Road) in a south-southeasterly direc-
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tion to the intersection with State Secondary Route 1316 (Stoney-
brook Drive); thence in a southwesterly direction with State
Secondary Route 1316 (Stoneybrook Drive) to State Secondary Route
702 (Castle Rock Road); thence in an easterly direction with State
Secondary Route 702 (Castle Rock Road) to State Secondary Route
1688 (Longhorn Road); thence south with State Secondary Route 1688
(Longhorn Road) to State Secondary Route 1687 (Brahma Road); thence
southeast with State Secondary Route 1687 (Brahma Road) to the
crossing of the Appalachian Power Company high tension Glen Lyn-
Hancock electric transmission line; thence with the Appalachian
Power Company high tension Glen Lyn-Hancock electric transmission
line in a southwesterly direction to State Secondary Route 689
(Roselawn Road); thence northwest with State Secondary Route 689
(Roselawn Road) to State Secondary Route 692; thence west with
State Secondary Route 692 (Mount Chestnut Road) to the crossing
location of a gas pipeline; thence with this gas pipeline in a
northerly and then westerly direction to its intersection with the
crest of 12 O'Clock Knob (elevation 2683) at Twelve O'CIOCk Knob
Road ; thence with Twelve O'Clock Knob Road~~ in a northerly
direction to the corporate line
o f the City o f Salem ; ~~n~^ ~„ '- e~€'-6~a~~~aa~Q
thence with the s~e~~r corporate line of the City of
Salem in an easterly direction to the place of beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Oak Grove Elementary School - Voting Place
Peters Creek Precinct - 105
Beginning at a point on Route 628 (Wood Haven Road) where the
said Route 628 crosses the western right-of-way line of U.S. Route
581; thence north with the west right-of-way line of Interstate 581
crossing Interstate Route 81 and the intersection of Route 81
service road (Loch Haven Drive) to the intersection of the road to
Loch Haven Country Club; thence north with the road to Loch Haven
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Country Club to State Secondary Route 1404; thence in a westerly
direction with State Secondary Route 1404 to the City of Roanoke
Water Department west property line; thence north with the City of
Roanoke Water Department west property line to the topographic
crest of Brushy Mountain; thence with the topographic crest of
Brushy Mountain in a southwesterly direction crossing Mason Creek
to the intersection of Virginia Route 311 and State Secondary Route
683; thence north with Virginia Route 311 to the topographic crest
of Fort Lewis Mountain; thence leaving Virginia Route 311 and with
the topographic crest of Fort Lewis Mountain in a ~a~westerly
direction approximately 13,000 feet intersecting a hollow which is
the east fork of Dry Branch and an existing fire trail; thence with
the hollow which is the east fork of Dry Branch in a southerly
direction as it meanders to a point where Dry Branch divides into
an east and west fork at the north corporate line of the City of
Salem; thence with the north corporate line of the City of Salem
and in a generally northeasterly direction to its intersection with
State Route 419 (Electric Road); thence with the east corporate
line of the City of Salem in a south-northeasterly direction to a
point on the City of Salem, Roanoke County, and City of Roanoke
line at Green Ridge Road; thence in a southeasterly direction with
Green Ridge Road to its intersection with Cove Road; thence in an
easterly direction with cove Road to its intersection with Peters Creek
Road: thence in a northeasterly direction with Peters Creek Road to its intersection
with North Lake Drive; thence in a northwesterly direction with North Lake Drive
to its intersection with Twilight Road; thence in a westerly direction with Twilight
Road to its intersection with Green Ridge Road; thence north with
Green Ridge Road to its intersection with Wood Haven Road; thence
east with Wood Haven Road to the place of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Glen Cove Elementary School - Voting Place
Poages Mill Precinct - 302
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Beginning at a point on the western right-of-way of U. S.
Highway 221 (Brambleton Avenue) and its intersection with Ran Lynn
Road; thence in a northwesterly direction with Ran Lynn Road to its
intersection with State Route 690 (South Roselawn Road); thence
with State Secondary Route 690 (South Roselawn Road) in a north-
easterly direction to its intersection with State Route 689
(Roselawn Road); thence in a northerly direction with State Route
689 (Roselawn Road) to State Secondary Route 692; thence west with
State Secondary Route 692 (Mount Chestnut Road) to the crossing
location of a gas pipeline; thence with this gas pipeline in a
northerly then westerly direction to. its intersection with the crest
of Twelve O'Clock Knob (elevation 2683); thence with the
topographic crest of Twelve O'Clock Knob and Poor Mountain in a
westerly-southwesterly direction to State Secondary Route 612;
thence in a generally southeasterly direction down the slope of
Poor Mountain to an elevation of 2800 feet; thence following the
2800-foot contour elevation of Poor and Bent Mountains in a
generally southern direction to the contours point of intersection
with Appalachian Power Company high-tension Roanoke-Claytor
transmission line; thence easterly with the Appalachian Power
Company high tension Roanoke-Claytor transmission line down the
slope of Bent Mountain to the topographic elevation 2,000 feet at
a branch of Back Creek; thence with the topographic elevation 2,000
feet as it traverses in a southeasterly direction with the base of
Bent Mountain to Dividing Spring Branch; thence southerly with
Dividing Spring Branch as it meanders to the Roanoke/Franklin
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gym(
County line; thence with the Roanoke/Franklin County line easterly
to its intersection with State Secondary Route 691; thence in a
northerly direction with State Secondary Route 691 to its intersec-
tion with State Secondary Route 690; thence in a northerly
direction with State Secondary Route 690 to the intersection of
U.S. Highway 221; thence with U. S. Highway 221 to the place of
beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Back Creek Elementary School - Voting Place
Windsor Hills Precinct - 303
Beginning at the City of Roanoke corporate line where Virginia
Primary Route 419 (Electric Road) intersects Glen Heather Drive;
thence easterly then southerly with the corporate line of the City of
Roanoke to a point where the said corporate line intersects Mud
Lick Creek; thence c=_`_'.=-=t~M' j' with the west fork of Mud Lick
Creek as it meanders in a southwesterly direction ~e-a-~e
~e.~dr;~~~}~~e~~ . LL ^-...a.., , ^--= - to Virginia Primary
Route 419 (Electric Road); thence north with Virginia Primary Route
419 (Electric Road); to the place of beginning.
Windsor Hills Magisterial District
Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church - Voting Place
Woodlands Precinct - 207
Beginning at a point on the northerly right-of-way of Virginia
Highway 117 (Peters Creek Road) where the fork of Garvin Creek
crosses said Peters Creek Road; thence with the west fork of Garvin
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Creek in a northwesterly then southwesterly direction ,
€ee~ to a point where the center line of
mom; Whispering Pines Drive, if extended, would intersect said west
fork of Carvin Creek; thence with the center line of ^----- '""''~""~
T~ai~ Whispering Pines Drive extended in a southwesterly direction to
the true centerline of the existing ire '"=-'---" '"~""-` Whispering
Pines Drive; thence with the center line of ~r-eee-T=~-~~s~=
Whispering Pines Drive in a southwesterly direction to its intersection with
Virginia Secondary Route 628 (Wood Haven Road); thence in a
northwesterly direction with Virginia Secondary Route 628 (Wood
Haven Road) to its intersection with Interstate 581; thence south
with Interstate 581 to its intersection with Virginia Route 117
(Peters Creek Road); thence in an easterly direction with Virginia
Route 117 (Peters Creek Road) to the place of Beginning.
Hollins Magisterial District
Northside Junior High School - Voting Place
4. That there is hereby established a new voting precinct to
be known as Bennett Sprincts Precinct with outside boundaries as
follows:
BENNETT SPRINGS PRECINCT - 107
Beginning at a point on the Roanoke/Montgomery County line at
the top of Catawba Mountain; thence with the crest of Catawba
Mountain in an easterly direction to the top of McAfee Knob; thence
with the crest of Tinker Mountain in an easterly direction to the
Roanoke/Botetourt County line; thence with the Roanoke/Botetourt
County line in a southeasterly direction to the southerly right-of-
way of Interstate 81; thence west with Interstate 81 to its
intersection with a service road identified as Loch Haven Drive;
thence north with Loch Haven Drive to Loch Haven Country Club;
thence north with the road to Loch Haven Country Club to State
Secondary Route 1404; thence in a westerly direction with State
Secondary Route 1404 to the City of Roanoke Water Department west
property line; thence north with the City of Roanoke Water Depart-
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ment west property line to the topographic crest of Brushy Moun-
tain; thence with the crest of Brushy Mountain in a southwesterly
direction crossing Mason's Creek to the intersection of Virginia
Route 311 at its intersection with State Secondary Route 863;
thence north with Virginia Route 311 to Plunkett Road; thence west
with Plunkett Road to a point where Mason's Creek crosses under
Plunkett Road; thence in a north-northwesterly direction with
Mason's Creek to its intersection with Old Catawba Road; thence
south with Old Catawba Road to its intersection with Bradshaw Road;
thence with Bradshaw Road in a westerly direction to the Roanoke/
Montgomery County line; thence with the Roanoke/Montgomery County
line in a northwesterly direction to the place of beginning.
Catawba Magisterial District
Roanoke Moose Lodge #284 - Voting Place
3233 Catawba Valley Drive
5. That the effective date of this ordinance shall be
July 1, 1992.
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ACTION NO.
ITEM NUMBER ~ °' ~'~
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SIIPERVISORB OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: April 28, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Appointments to Committees, Commissions and
Boards
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
1. Board of Zoning Appeals:
Five-year term of Carlton Wright, Hollins Magisterial District
will expire June 30, 1992.
2. Fifth Planning District Commission
Three-year terms of Edward G. Kohinke, Elected Representative,
Alfred C Anderson, Elected Representative, and Mrs. Pat Dean,
Citizen Representative and Executive Committee will expire June 30,
1992.
3. Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission
Three-year terms of Vince Joyce, Cave Spring Magisterial District;
Karen Pagdett, Hollins Magisterial District; and Thomas Robertson,
Vinton Magisterial District will expire June 30, 1992.
Unexpired three-year term of Fenton E. Harrison, Jr., Catawba
Magisterial District. His term will expire June 30, 1994. Please
see the attached letter of resignation.
4. Roanoke Valley Regional Cable TV Committee
Initial one-year term of Don Terp, Member at Large, will expire
June il, 1992. The subsequent term will be for three years.
5 Total Action Against Poverty Board of Directors
Two-year term of E. Cabell Brand, joint appointee with the City of
Salem expired May 5, 1992.
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Respectfully submitted, Approved by,
Mary H. Allen Elmer C. Hodge
Clerk to the Board County Administrator
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ACTION VOTE
Approved ( ) Motion by: No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) Eddy
Received ( ) Johnson
Referred ( ) Kohinke
To ( ) Minnix
Nickens
FIFTH PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION
313 Luck Avenue, S.W. Ph: (703)343-4417
Post Office Box 2569 Fax: (703)343-4416
Roanoke, Virginia 24010
....
May 4, 1992
Ms. Mary H. Allen, Clerk
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
P.O. Box 29800
Roanoke, Virginia 24018
Dear Ms. Allen:
According to our record of appointments, the term of Mr.
Edward G. Kohinke, Sr., elected representative of Roanoke County on
the Fifth Planning District Commission, expires June 30, 1992. Mr.
Kohinke was appointed in January 1992 to fill the unexpired term of
Mr. Richard Robers. The Commission Bylaws state that all
appointments are for three-year terms. Mr. Kohinke is, of course,
eligible for reappointment.
Please notify the Commission of Roanoke County's official
action in filling this upcoming vacancy on the Commission. Thank
you.
Yours truly,
Wayne G. Strickland
Secretary to the Commission
WGS:jlp
cc: Mr. Howard C. Packett, 5PDC Chairman
Mr. Edward G. Kohinke, Sr.
Allegheny County • Botetourt County • Craig County • Roanoke County
City of Clifton Forge • City of Covington • City of Roanoke ~ City of Salrm • Town of Vinton
FIFTH PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION
313 Luck Avenue, S.W. Ph: (703)343-4417
Yost Oftice Box 2569 Fax: (703)343-4416
Roanoke, Virginia 24010
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May 4, 1992
Ms. Mary H. Allen, Clerk
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
P.O. Box 29800
Roanoke, Virginia 24018
Dear Ms. Allen:
According to our record of appointments, the term of Mrs. Pat
Dean, non-elected representative of Roanoke County on the Fifth
Planning District Commission and Executive Committee, expires June
30, 1992. The Commission Bylaws state that all appointments are
for three-year terms. Mrs. Dean is, of course, eligible for
reappointment.
Please notify the Commission of Roanoke County's official
action in filling this upcoming vacancy on the Commission and
Executive Committee. Thank you.
Yours truly,
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Wayn G. Strickland
Secretary to the Commission
WGS:jlp
cc: Mr. Howard C. Puckett, 5PDC Chairman
Mrs. Pat Dean
Allegheny County • Botetourt County • Craig County ~ Roanoke County
City of Clifton Forge • City of Covington • City of Roanoke • City of Salem ~ Town of Vinton
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
RESOLUTION 51292-7 APPROVING AND CONCURRING IN
CERTAIN ITEMS SET FORTH ON THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AGENDA FOR THIS DATE DESIGNATED AS
ITEM R - CONSENT AGENDA
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke
County, Virginia, as follows:
1. that the certain section of the agenda of the Board
of Supervisors for May 12, 1992, designated as Item K - Consent
Agenda be, and hereby is, approved and concurred in as to each item
separately set forth in said section designated Items 1 through 4,
inclusive, as follows:
1. Confirmation of Committee Appointment to the Total
Action Against Poverty Board of Directors.
2. Approval of the Economic Development Strategy for
Roanoke County.
3. Approval of Fireworks Display Permit for Hollins
College Corporation.
4. Acceptance of 0.29 miles of Mallard Lake Drive and
0.09 miles of Mallard Lake Court into the Virginia
Department of Transportation Secondary System.
2. That the Clerk to the Board is hereby authorized and
directed where required by law to set forth upon any of said items
the separate vote tabulation for any such item pursuant to this
resolution.
On motion of Supervisor Johnson to adopt the resolution,
and carried by the following recorded vote:
AYES: Supervisors Johnson, Kohinke, Minnix, Nickens, Eddy
NAYS: None
A COPY TESTE:
Mary H. llen, Clerk
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
cc: File
Timothy W. Gubala, Director, Economic Development
Arnold Covey, Director, Engineering & Inspections
ACTION NO. A-51292-7.a
}',r:
ITEM NUMBER ~.
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Confirmation of Committee Appointment to Total
Action Against Poverty Board of Directors
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
At their April 28, 1992 meeting, Supervisor Bob Johnson nominated
himself to serve a two-year term and asked that Elizabeth Stokes
be appointed to serve in his place.
It is recommended that Supervisor Johnson be appointed to serve a
two-year term expiring May 5, 1994, and that Elizabeth Stokes be
appointed to serve in his place.
~~
Mary H. len
Clerk to the Board
~~~~
Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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ACTION VOTE
Approved (X) Motion by: Bob L. Johnson to No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) approve Eddy x
Received ( ) Johnson x
Referred ( ) Kohinke x
To ( ) Minnix x
Nickens x
cc: File
Total Action Against Poverty Board of Directors File
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
RESOLUTION 51292-7.b APPROVING AND ADOPTING
THE 1992-94 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
WHEREAS, economic development is both a program and a process
that is an important function of local government; and
WHEREAS, economic development program activities have been
carried out by the Department of Economic Development as outlined
in an Economic Development Strategy; and
WHEREAS, the 1992-94 Economic Development Strategy sets forth
actions, policies and recommendations for various economic
development programs and activities; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of
Roanoke County that the 1992-94 Economic Development Strategy be
approved and adopted as a guide for economic development programs
and activities in Roanoke County.
On motion of Supervisor Johnson to adopt the resolution, and
carried by the following recorded vote:
AYES: Supervisors Johnson, Kohinke, Minnix, Nickens, Eddy,
NAYS: None
A COPY TESTE:
Mary H. Allen, Clerk
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
cc: File
Timothy W. Gubala, Director, Economic Development
~.
Item No.
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
IN ROANOKE, VA ON TUESDAY,
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: 1992-94 Economic Development Strategy
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
Recommend approval.
BACKGROUND:
The Economic Development Strategy is prepared every two years to
set forth an overall strategy and process for creating and
retaining jobs from business locations and expansions, providing
sites and buildings for such companies, and encouraging the
development of tourism.
The Strategy examines the different sectors of the Valley and
County economy and proposes local government actions for increasing
employment opportunities. Six geographic areas of Roanoke County
are examined and recommendations proposed to encourage economic
development in these areas. A tourism strategy is presented for
consideration. Recommendations for developing the Glenvar site,
completing the Zoning Ordinance update and planning for the Explore
project are presented as specific projects to be completed during
the next 2 years.
The Strategy has been distributed to various business, economic
development and tourism groups for review and comment.
FISCAL IMPACT:
None from this Strategy, but projects will be prepared and
presented in the future for consideration by the Board of
Supervisors.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff requests that the Strategy be adopted by the Board of
Supervisors by resolution.
5.
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Respectfully submitted:
Timothy W. ubala, Director
Economic evelopment
ACTION
Approved ( )
Denied ( )
Received ( )
Referred
to
Motion by:
Approved:
Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
Eddy
Johnson
Kohinke
Minnix
Nickens
No Yes Abs
Attachment
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1992-94
ROANOKE COUNTY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Department of Economic Development
May 1992
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1. Introduction
Economic Development is defined as the creation of wealth
within a community.
Roanoke County has carried out strategic planning for economic
development since 1985. The purpose of this document is to
continue the process and envision the economic future of Roanoke
County and develop the necessary procedures and operations to
achieve that future.
This strategy is intended to support the mission of the
Department of Economic Development which is:
"To serve as the prime County contact for
prospective new and expanded business and
industrial developments within the Roanoke Valley,
to evaluate related opportunities, and to encourage
tourism and all forms of economic development."
The 1992-94 Strategy is meant to complement the adopted
Comprehensive Plan and Capital Improvement Plan of Roanoke County.
Specific public improvements for water, sewer and roads are
outlined. Other public actions to improve the County's competitive
position are described. The completion of the revised Zoning
Ordinance and the preparation of a new map with additional
commercial and industrial zoning districts is needed to assist in
promoting County sites for prospects. Specific plans for
industrial sites and properties will continue to improve the "ready
to go" status of the County's inventory.
Further strategies will be proposed for the economic sectors
that comprise the local economy in the County.
Economic development opportunities external to the County will
be described and evaluation measures proposed.
Continued coordination and financial support to the Roanoke
Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau as part of the tourism
strategy. The County recognizes a range of opportunities for
visitors in the Roanoke Valley.
Continued coordination and financial support to the Roanoke
Valley Economic Development Partnership should continue as being an
integral element in achieving success in attracting prospects to
the area.
II. Background of Strategic Planning for Economic Development
Roanoke County's initial Economic Development Strategy was
established after the formation of the office of Economic
Development in the Department of Development in 1985. A work
program with goals, objectives and tasks was described and
initiated. Roanoke County's economic development efforts were
aimed at retention of existing business/industry and attraction of
new business and industry.
The 1987 Economic Development Strategy recognized the
imbalance of the County's tax base with its 83$ residential to 17%
commercial/industrial ratio. The first efforts towards site
development were implemented with the County's involvement in
development of Southwest Industrial Park (sWIP). During 1988, the
County entered into two successful public-private partnerships; one
with Botetourt County for the development of the 65 acre Jack Smith
Industrial Park and one with Lingerfelt Development Corporation for
the development of Valleypointe.
During 1989, the Economic Development Strategy focused on
product development and proposed the rezoning of ten sites of about
650 acres from agricultural and residential to industrial. This
"land banking" approach resulted in the addition of several large
sites to the "ready to go" inventory. Planning for public
infrastructure improvements for water, sewer and road access were
implemented as part of the Capital Improvement Plan and VDOT
Secondary Highway Plan. One of the land banked sites was
identified by Allied-Signal Corporation for the location of a disc-
brake manufacturing facility (1990).
Roanoke County has continued its long range planning focus in
1991 by beginning construction of the Spring Hollow Reservoir and
locating the Regional Landfill in the western portion of the
County. The 1992-94 Economic Development Strateay envisions
economic opportunity areas that focus on public improvements to
create "ready to go" sites identified in the 1989 Strategy as well
as other geographic areas.
III. Strategies for Economic Sectors
The Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) classifies employment
by industry divisions. Roanoke County's inclusion in the Roanoke
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) shows the regional composition
of the labor market. Between 1981-1990, annual statistics show
that MSA employment has increased by 25,100 to 127,900 total
predominately because of growth in the wholesale and retail trade
(10,100) and services (11,700) sectors. Manufacturing has declined
by (1,100) and transportation and public utilities by (1,300).
Modest increases have occurred in mining/construction (2,700) and
finance, insurance and real estate (2,600).
Roanoke County' s portion of the employment base within the MSA
during the late 1980's show that we accounted for about 20% of the
total jobs in the Roanoke Valley, reaching a high of 25,928 in 1988
from 20,782 recorded in 1984. By the first quarter 1991 we had
23,566 jobs counted within Roanoke County. Our decreases from 1988
occurred in the trade (-802), transportation (-300), services
(-1822), government (-442), agriculture (-107), and construction
(-197) sectors. Roanoke County experienced job growth in the
manufacturing (+475) and finance, insurance, etc. (+974) sectors.
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Development strategies for local government impacts these
various sectors. Table 1 highlights these proposed local
government actions that can affect employment and job growth.
Strategies that support development in the various sectors of
the economy (as shown on Table 1) have an impact in the taxes
generated shown on Table 2. This shows the current taxes that
Roanoke County collects and those that are applicable to typical
uses in each of the sectors. Knowledge of tax revenue is an
important element in evaluating strategies for these economic
sectors and promoting the location of applicable businesses and
industries.
Decision making for economic development projects should
recognize the positive aspects of tax revenue generation. The
number and type of jobs related and the wages and salaries
generated are key indicators of the wealth of the local economy.
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TABLE 1
Strategy for Economic Sectors
Sector Proposed Local Government Action by Roanoke
County
Manufacturing - Areas for industrial shown in Comprehensive
Plan
- Sites rezoned to industrial with water,
sewer and roads available and access to
electricity, gas and other private utilities
- Entrepreneurial partnerships to assist
industry with location and expansion
- Tax exempt status for pollution control
equipment
- Evaluation of construction of a shell
building of 50-75,000 square feet
Transportation/
Public utilities - Sites for trucking terminals near I-81
identified and rezoned
Retail - Areas for commercial concentrations shown in
Comprehensive Plan with particular emphasis
on I-81 interchanges
- Properties rezoned to commercial with water,
sewer and road access available
Services - Areas for services included within
Comprehensive Plan with particular emphasis
on I-81 interchanges
- Service industries targeted that complement
and support area industries and business.
The emphasis should be for tourism support
businesses.
Finance, Insurance,
Real Estate -
Areas for office uses
Comprehensive Plan
Sites zoned for office
for office location
Ordinance.
included within the
uses and standards
outlined in Zoning
Mining/Construction - Public works projects such as construction
of the Spring Hollow Reservoir and Regional
Landfill and VDOT road construction.
- Availability of list of local contractors
with construction skills and capabilities
for new/expanding business and industries.
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IV. Economic Opportunity Areas
The 1989 Economic Development Strategy proposed the rezoning
of vacant agricultural and residential land to an industrial
category in order to increase the site inventory in the County.
This strategy should be implemented through the Capital Improvement
Plan for water and sewer projects, and Virginia Department of
Transportation Secondary and Primary Highway Plans. Further
analysis of sites will be accomplished during the update of the
Comprehensive Plan and rewrite of the Zoning Ordinance.
The proximity of these sites to major transportation corridors
and their relationship to major employment areas identified in the
Comprehensive Plan indicates a proactive approach to promote their
development potential. The Economic Development Strategy for 1992-
94 proposes actions to promote economic activity within economic
opportunity areas.
1. Identify potential sites for economic development
activity (commercial and industrial)
2. Identify and schedule public improvements and strategies
to improve marketability of sites.
3. Identify appropriate public-private entrepreneurial
partnerships to achieve economic development in these
areas.
The following economic development opportunity areas are
listed below and described on individual area maps.
A. I-81 corridor
B. Hollins Road Industrial Area
C. Route 460 East Corridor
D. West County
E. Explore Project Area
F. Southwest County/419 Corridor
A. I-81 Corridor
There are approximately 17 miles of Interstate I-81 with six
interchanges in Roanoke County. Compared with other interchanges
in adjacent localities, Roanoke County has a less intense
development pattern. The absence of any intersecting major north-
south primary highway, current residential or agricultural zoning,
and the lack of water and sewer infrastructure in the north part of
the County contribute to limited development opportunities. The I-
81 corridor is the major highway in Western Virginia with a
southwest-northeast orientation. Current regional planning efforts
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are being conducted by a consortium of planning district
commissions, local government and state agencies to develop a
unified I-81 Corridor Plan.
The I-81 Corridor is an economic opportunity area for Roanoke
County. Traffic volumes are expected to double by the year 2015.
The vacant developable land near the interchanges can serve as
magnets for tourism and economic development. Proposed actions for
the realization of this economic opportunity area are:
1. Roanoke County's involvement with the Fifth Planning
District Commission in the study of Exit 146 (old exit
43) at Plantation Road (Route 115) will result in the
completion of a study of the interchange area that can be
used as a model for other interchanges in the County.
The recommendations can be developed into actions to
improve economic opportunity.
2. Amendment of the Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance and
map to define Interchange Districts that have commercial
and industrial development potential.
3. Implementation of projects for water in the Capital
Improvement Plan that will result in the construction of
a water transmission line network from the new Spring
Hollow Reservoir along the I-81 Corridor. The Corridor
area has lower water pressure because of its elevation.
New water storage tanks are needed in several interchange
areas to meet fire flow requirements for existing and
future business.
4. Review of the Zoning Ordinance section pertaining to on-
premises business signs to allow greater height limits
for businesses serving Interstate travelers that are
located within a defined Interchange District. This will
enhance the location of tourism related businesses.
5. Review of extension of a frontage road that parallels
Interstate I-81 on the north side between Exit 146 and
Loch Haven Drive to open up additional land for
development.
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The Hollins Road (Route 601) Corridor has a concentration of
existing businesses and industries and sites for development.
Within the 1.75 mile corridor there are twelve (12) businesses and
industries with 501,759 square feet and approximately 800
employees. Vacant industrial sites total 73.3 acres. There are
several potential sites totaling 300 acres that could be rezoned
and made available for development along Old Mountain Road.
Development opportunities have been limited because of the
narrowness of Hollins Road and the lack of adequate drainage.
Water and sewer are not available in all areas.
Action agenda items for this economic opportunity area in the
next two years are as follows:
1. Complete the planned improvements in the VDOT Primary
Road Plan and improve Hollins Road, creating a road
capable of handling industrial traffic with adequate
width and a signalization intersection at Plantation
Road.
2. Plan for the extension of water and sewer to serve
existing and potential sites in the Utility Capital
Improvement Plan (CIP). Provide water storage
facilities to meet the fire flow needs of new and
existing business and industry.
3. Rezone potential sites to commercial and industrial
classifications during the Zoning Ordinance update.
4. Develop plans for the 73 acres of vacant industrial land
to result in their sale, use and/or development. Since
the sites are zoned appropriately, other conditions of
availability for sale, public utilities and access exist.
Prescriptions for overcoming these deficiencies will be
prepared to assist the development of these properties.
5. Investigate and schedule projects for the County's
Drainage Program in the Hollins Road area to improve
existing site conditions.
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C. Route 460 (East) Corridor
The Route 460 East Corridor serves as the eastern gateway to
the Roanoke Valley.
Although the land use in this part of the County has a
residential character, a majority of the land is undeveloped or
rural in nature. The mountains, Glade Creek and Blue Ridge Parkway
are significant features on~the landscape.
Land uses in the City of Roanoke are more intense, with a
strong industrial character in Roanoke's Centre for Industry and
Technology. A commercial corridor has developed within the City
limits on Route 460.
Botetourt County is encouraging industrial development along
the 604 corridor from Read Mountain to Route 460. Two industrial
parks, Jack Smith Industrial Park and East Gate have a total of 120
acres of land available for use. Several companies have recently
relocated from Roanoke City and Salem to take advantage of lower
land costs and land availability.
Improvements to Route 604 (Alternate 220), will enhance truck
traffic from Interstate I-81 to Route 460. The proposed East
Circumferential was projected to relieve congestion on I-581 in the
future, but citizen and local government opposition shelved the
plans.
The Route 460 corridor is a corridor experiencing development
pressures located between developing commercial/industrial areas in
Botetourt County and the City of Roanoke.
The Bonsack area plan being prepared by the Planning
Department would attempt to manage future corridor development and
avoid conflicts with residential areas. However, the capability
and design of Route 460, the availability of large developable
tracts of land and the County's past expenditure of funds to expand
water and sewer transmission lines indicate that development will
occur .
The 1992-94 Economic Development Strategy proposes the
following actions to promote business activities in this economic
development opportunity area:
1. Evaluate the former Pollard property (Fralin & Waldron)
and the Dowdy property for inclusion in Principle
Industrial on the Comprehensive Plan update. This has
the potential of adding 225 acres to the site inventory.
2. Extend sewer through the recently rezoned Lowe (Valley
Gateway) property to Route 460 in order to facilitate
development of the property.
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Route 460.
4. Change the land use plan designations for the Route 460
frontage from Neighborhood Conservation to Core,
Development and Transition to conform with the property
owners' desires and to foster development. This will
assist ip rezoning efforts in the future.
5. Identify parcels with either commercial zoning or
potential and develop plans for the promotion and
development of these properties.
6. Rezoning of key parcels as part of the Zoning Ordinance
revision. This process should correspond to the
Comprehensive Plan and both downzone improperly zoned areas
and upzone new ones to fit with plan designations.
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ROUTE 460 EAST CORRIDOR
D. West County.
Roanoke County made a sizable public investment in west County
during 1991. Construction began on the Spring Hollow Reservoir and
treatment plant, which will cost more than $30 million when
completed. Amulti-jurisdictional agreement was executed that will
result in the 1993 commencement of the new regional landfill.
Economic development projects in west Roanoke County
accelerated with the purchase of 159 acres for the Allied-Signal
Corporation. Although this project was delayed and then canceled
because of the downturn in the auto industry, it did result in the
development of an available industrial site with rail frontage.
County sewer was extended 6000 feet to serve this property. Two
tracts of land were purchased by Allied-Signal and donated to the
County to create a combined site of 177 acres. This site should be
developed within the next few years as Valley TechPark.
Several other locations on Roanoke County land (the former
Shamrock Park) for Ingersoll-Rand and Medeco have maintained a high
tech manufacturing focus. Development of existing vacant
industrial sites and the identification and marketing of other
sites will assist economic development in west Roanoke County.
Specific actions needed within the Strategic Plan time frame
include:
1. Master Plan and development concept prepared for Glenvar site.
Initiate site development with road and utilities planning and
a Phase I development of approximately 40 acres.
2. Rezoning of selected sites from agricultural/residential to a
commercial or industrial use to conform to the Comprehensive
Plan designation.
3. Planning for specific sites within the urban service area
having constraints to their development. The lack of water
and sewer utilities, road access and/or availability for sale
limit the inclusion of property in the "ready to go" category.
4. Recognition of opportunities in west County for visitors and
the preparation of recommendations to include this area within
the County's tourism strategy. Dixie Caverns and Green Hill
Park serve as different types of destinations and resources
for special events.
5. Recognition of opportunities for development resulting from
the identification, funding and completion of the "smart
highway" linkage to Virginia Tech in Montgomery County.
6. The redistricting and placement of west County in the 9th
Congressional District will assist economic development
marketing efforts because of the interest and involvement of
Congressman Rick Boucher in regional development. Close
coordination with his office will ensure that out of area
prospects are aware of sites in western Roanoke County.
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E. Explore Park
Virginia's Explore Park has taken on a different complexion in
the past year under Dr. Rupert Cutler's leadership and direction.
As a result, the County's role and specifically that of the
Economic Development Department in relation to Explore, may change
from 1992-1994.
Explore is anticipated to be open to the public on a broad
scale in 1994. This is contingent upon several factors:
a) closing of the Roanoke Regional Landfill,
b) construction of the 2; mile Blue Ridge Parkway spur,
previously known as the Roanoke River Parkway,
c) completion of needed infrastructure to support Blue Ridge
Town's development (wells, septic systems, internal roads),
and,
d) re-construction of the Hofauger Homestead and other
elements of the Town plan.
The County has continued support of Explore's activities as an
economic development priority and plans to continue such support.
The Economic Development Department plans to continue assistance
through:
1) providing technical assistance and/or coordination efforts
related to the land use approval and rezoning process.
2) coordination of on-site infrastructure improvements, such
as water and sewer needs.
3) negotiating land agreements, as needed.
4) suggesting improvements, i.e., upgrading existing roads, to
further the project's progress.
5) working with the County's Explore Advisory Committee, as
needed, to assist in working out differences and/or
advising the County and recommending future actions.
6) assisting in revisions to the Comprehensive Plan for the
Explore Park location and development of Zoning Ordinance
Districts to manage development on adjacent land.
Virginia's Explore Park is currently offering educational
tours to school groups, focusing on 4th grade classes, and has been
offering coordinating conferences for national environmental
groups. In addition, Explore is beginning a red wolf breeding
program on its site in Roanoke County.
These efforts are already tools for increasing tourism in the
region. When the Park is open on a larger scale and available to
tourists, tax revenue is anticipated to benefit the County.
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F. Southwest County - 419 Corridor
Commercial development activities in southwest County have
traditionally sought to develop the frontage along Route 419 and
the main roads that intersect with it. Brambleton Avenue (Route
221) has experienced commercial growth after its reconstruction and
widening. Other collector roads, Ogden and Colonial, have not seen
commercial growth because of traffic volumes, land availability and
neighborhood characteristics. Starkey Road has a commercial
portion that connects to Ogden Road and Route 419. This new road
section was constructed during the 1980's resulting in significant
commercial development.
The construction of new roads (such as the Starkey Road) that
intersect with Route 419 take advantage of the existing traffic
flow in the corridor and encourage development. The extension of
Fallowater Drive is another example of new road construction
causing new commercial development. Other possibilities exist in
the corridor for the construction of access roads east of 419
between Tanglewood Mall and Route 220. An undeveloped area could
be opened up for commercial development and access improvement for
the Pinkard Court neighborhood.
Other redevelopment opportunities exist along the NS Railway
in Starkey. Land for industrial use is available but lacks
adequate access and/or public utilities. A total of 106 acres
rezoned industrial can be made available for development through
local government initiatives.
Specific actions needed in the 1992-94 time frame are:
1. Site selection assistance along Route 419 for commercial
prospects. Much of the vacant property designated as
Development, Core or Transition is not zoned for commercial
uses. Landowners/developers are reluctant to attempt rezoning
because of previous citizen opposition and pending court
cases. Staff guidance through the rezoning process is an
internal measure until the property can be zoned by the County
to conform with plan designations.
2. Planning for industrial uses in the Starkey area. There are
sites totaling 106 acres that are zoned industrial but lack
one or more ingredients to make them marketable. Available
for sale, utilities, access and/or property conditions limit
choices available for prospects. A plan for each site will be
prepared to outline public and private actions for
development.
3. Evaluation of other properties and opportunities that may be
created as part of the planning and location of the water
transmission line from the Spring Hollow Reservoir to
Southwest County.
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V. TOURISM
The same corridors that provide opportunities for development ~.~j.~fo~,
provide the route that travelers use as they visit the Roanoke
Valley. Tourism has been proposed as an economic development
program that is a growth industry that generates travel expendi-
tures and tax dollars in the Roanoke Valley. The U.S. Travel Data
Center defines a domestic traveler as, "any resident of the U.S.
regardless of nationality who travels to a place 100 miles or more
away from home within the U.S. or who stays away from home one or
more nights."
There are two elements of tourism, the visitor and the place
or environment that attracts him.
The Roanoke Valley does not have a major tourist destination
point. The Valley's destination is the mountains, scenery and
recreational opportunities. The Center in the Square and Historic
Farmer's Market in Downtown Roanoke are destination points for the
Valley region but are not the type of facilities that generate
significant overnight travel. According to the Roanoke Valley
Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Interstate I-81 Corridor and
the Blue Ridge Parkway convey an estimated 16,000,000 visitors
through the Roanoke Valley. The Valley location presents
opportunities for capturing a significant portion of these
travelers.
The City of Roanoke and other organizations are promoting and
facilitating the renovation of the Hotel Roanoke and Virginia Tech
Continuing Education Center as a destination for conventions. This
is a high priority economic development project for the City of
Roanoke. The County has requested information from Virginia Tech
explaining the benefits of this project to Roanoke County.
The Explore Project in eastern Roanoke County is implementing
its 1994 Plan with the design and location of the Parkway spur road
and the construction of the first structure in Blue Ridge Town.
There is an expressed need for the extension of public water and
sewer to this area to assist in site development. Explore
advocates estimate that over 450,000 visitors per year will visit
the area when Explore '94 is complete. The River Foundation
estimates the resulting benefit to be $177,500 annually in direct
taxes to Roanoke County after the project is running for 3 years.
Other specific events in the Roanoke Valley occur at various
times during the year. These include Festival in the Park, the
Commonwealth Games, the Symphony Polo Match, Valleypointe After
Hours, the Miss Virginia Pageant, Vinton Dogwood Festival and the
Horse Show, to include a few. These events also project increased
local revenues derived from visitors generating taxes. For
instance, the State of Virginia determined that a single visitor
had a $63.71 average per night expenditure (1988 figures).
The most recent data (1988) from the Virginia Division of
Tourism, (U.S. Travel Data Center) indicate that travel generated
expenditures for Roanoke County are $43,956,000 or about 1/3 of the
City of Roanoke's $120,384,000. Salem had total travel
expenditures of $11,590,000 (or about 1/4 of Roanoke County's).
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In reviewing data, the County has consistently experienced
roughly 1/3 of the City in total travel expenditures, travel
generated payroll, state and local tax and travel generated jobs.
Table 3 depicts historical data for travel expenditures.
Total taxable sales reported to the Virginia Department of
Taxation (Table 4) further indicate that Roanoke County received
about 1/3 of Roanoke City's total.
These travel revenues reflect the assumption of state tourism
administrators that all meals tax, admissions and transient
occupancy taxes are attributable to tourism. No accounting of
business travel has been made to accurately determine the level of
tourism dollars coming into the community. One rule of thumb
quoted indicates that 70% of the meal tax revenue is locally
generated.
Roanoke County's contributions to the Roanoke Valley
Convention and Visitors Bureau and other direct tourism programs
began in 1989. The enclosed tables (4-5) show the increases of
these contributions from 1989 through 1992. They also reflect the
position that the County spends 1/4 of the level of the City of
Roanoke's contributions based on revenues attributable to tourism.
The City of Roanoke is proposing to increase their
contributions to tourism by funding the Convention and Visitors
Bureau at $510,000 in Fiscal Year 1992-93 by increasing their
lodging tax. Roanoke County is proposing a contribution of $35,000
(45% increase) and will consider gradual increases until the
Convention and Visitors Bureau and Roanoke Valley Economic
Development Partnerships are funded at similar levels.
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Analysis of County~s Contribution to Tourism
Tax Revenue Generated:
Meals Tax
Admissions Tax
Lodging Tax
Donations/Commitments:
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Virginia Amateur Sports
Metro Tournament
Explore Project
Vinton Dogwood Festival
Additional Convention and Visitors
Bureau Supplement
FY 1990-91
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$ 10,243
$ 172,227
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In Year 2000, sewer infrastructure is estimated to be $2.4 million.
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The travel expenditures that are attributed to Roanoke County
occur in retail establishments such as Tanglewood Mall or in our
hotels and restaurants. The County's hospitality inventory
includes sixty-four (64) restaurants, fourteen (14) hotels, and one
bed and breakfast inn.
Tourism advocates cite the positive economic impact of their
events on proposals. Estimates of tax dollars generated from
meals, sales and lodging are shown as revenues. What is lacking in
all these impact statements is the expenditures. A valid economic
impact analysis estimates not only the public revenues but the
public expenditures.
Valley tourism events and proposals that request public
participation from Roanoke County should stand the test of an
economic impact analysis to determine the real impacts of costs and
benefits.
Roanoke County has opportunities for tourism that can be
achieved. These recommendations are from the Tourism Strategy for
1992-94.
1. Continue to coordinate with the Roanoke Valley Convention and
Visitors Bureau to develop Valleywide strategies to develop
tourism opportunities. These include assessing the market,
impact and feasibility of tourist attractions, facilities and
investments; developing promotional efforts to market the
Roanoke Valley and identifying Public-Private Partnership
opportunities for tourism.
2. Complete the update to the County Comprehensive Plan and
revisions to the Zoning Ordinance that would allow opportunities
for new development of hotels, motels and restaurants that would
add to the County's inventory of tourism support facilities and
tax base. Permissive regulations to allow bed and breakfast
inns should be developed.
3. Investigate the feasibility of promoting the historic resources
of the County. A survey by the Virginia Department of Historic
Resources identified over 300 separate sites and structures in
Roanoke County. Other communities (i.e. Henrico) have prepared
self-guiding maps and arranged tours to highlight their
resources.
4. Promote tourism events, festivals and activities that utilize
the County's recreational resources. The Roanoke Symphony Polo
Match, Soccer tournament and the Commonwealth Games have all
utilized County facilities. Complete or request an economic
impact analysis for projects and activities that seek financial
assistance from Roanoke County.
5. Support the development of the Explore Project as a visitor
destination.
6. Promote Dixie Caverns as a visitor destination.
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Roanoke County's 1992-94 Economic Development Strategy is action-
oriented in regards to geographic areas and tourism promotion.
This agenda of projects and activities should be coordinated with
the updated Comprehensive Plan and revisions to the Zoning
Ordinance and map. Other on-going functions of economic
development such as the industry visitation program, coordination
with the Roanoke Valley Economic Development Partnership and
marketing efforts will continue. The Strategy is recommended to be
adopted and implemented by the Board of Supervisors.
The following projects referenced in the Strategy should be
accomplished within the two year time period.
1. Completion of development plans and improvements (water, sewer,
road) to the 177 acre Glenvar site and market it for sale as the
Valley TechPark Industrial site.
2. Completion of an update of the County Zoning Ordinance that
would encourage economic development on properly zoned sites
and/or areas designated for development in the Comprehensive
Plan.
3. Completion of both off-site and on-site utility plans for
Explore project and continued liaison with the Blue Ridge
Parkway, local governments and Explore staff to move this
project from planning into a development phase.
4. Recognition that the Interstate I-81 Corridor as an essential
element in promotion of economic development and tourism
opportunities. The completion of planning for Interchange
Districts and their definition in the Zoning Ordinance will
promote development in this part of Roanoke County.
5. Adoption of the Tourism Strategy for 1992-94 as referenced on
the previous page (26) to market the Roanoke Valley as a
destination for all types of visitors.
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AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992
RESOLUTION _
ADOPTING THE
STRATEGY
APPROVING AND
1992-94 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
WHEREAS, economic development is both a program and a process
that is an important function of local government; and
WHEREAS, economic development program activities have been
carried out by the Department of Economic Development as outlined
in an Economic Development Strategy; and
WHEREAS, the 1992-94 Economic Development Strategy sets forth
actions, policies and recommendations for various economic
development programs and activities; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of
Roanoke County that the 1992-94 Economic Development Strategy be
approved and adopted as a guide for economic development programs
and activities in Roanoke County.
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A-51292-7.c
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AT A REGIILAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Approval of Fireworks Display Permit
Application - Hollins College Corporation
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
Hollins College Corporation has requested a Fireworks Display
Permit for May 23, 1992. This event is part of their
Sesquicentennial Celebration and the display will be held on the
Hollins College Campus. Attached is a copy of their application.
The application has been reviewed by the Fire Marshal and he
recommends approval of the permit.
Due to changes in the Fire Prevention Code, future fireworks
display permits will be approved by the Fire Marshal and will no
longer come to the Board of Supervisors for approval.
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Fireworks Display Permit for Hollins
College Corporation be approved.
Mary H. Allen
Clerk to the Board
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Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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ACTION VOTE
Approved (x) Motion by: Bob L. Johnson to No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) approve Eddy x
Received ( ) Johnson x
Referred ( ) Kohinke x
To ( ) Minnix x
Nickens x
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Don Gillispie, Fire Marshal
John P. Wheeler, Hollins College Corporation
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FIREWORKS DISPLAY PERMIT APPLICATION ~ ~-~,
Pursuant to the provision of Section 11-2 of the
Roanoke County Code the following organization hereby applies to
the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County for a display of
fireworks within Roanoke County.
1. Name of Organization: Hollins College Corporation
2. Address: 7916 Williamson Rd. NW
Roanoke VA 24020
3. Date of Fireworks Display: 23 May 1992
4. Location of Fireworks Display: Hollins College campus _
5. Name and address of qualified expert who will conduct such
display and basis for his qualification as an expert:
William K. Craft, Licensed Pyrotechnician
Craft Family Shooters P. O. Box 575
Bluefield, WV 24701
6. Attach copy of Certificate of Insurance.
7. Attach a safety plan outlining precautions that will be
implemented for the duration of the fireworks display:
The undersigned hereby certifies that the provisions
of Section 11-2 of the Roanoke County Code have been read and
will be complied with by said organization. Any fireworks that
remain unfired after the display shall be immediately disposed of
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Safety Plan
The firing will last approximately 10 minutes (from 9:05 p.m. until 9:15 p.m.), and will take
place on the hill north of the central quadrangle leading to the Cocke Family Cemetery. The
firing point will be no closer than 150 yards from any building and approximately 300 yards
from Route 11.
The road into the campus between the firing area and the chapel will be closed during the
fireworks display. Two security men will be present on the hill with fire extinguishers during
the firing.
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FIRE PREVENTION
TO: Mary H. Allen, Clerk to the Board of Supervisors
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FROM: Donald W. Gillispie, Fire Marsh
DATE: May 6, 1992
SUBJECT: Fireworks Display at Hollins College
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MARK W. LIGHT
DEPUTY CHIEF
CHIEF OF SUPPORT SERVICES
TRAINING
FIRE PREVENTION
TECHNICAL SERVICES
DATA MANAGEMENT
PERSONNEL SERVICES
I have reviewed the request from Hollins College for a permit to display fireworks on the
campus on May 23, 1992. The County code reference in the application, section 11-2 in my
reference is not applicable to fireworks. The County Fire Prevention code article 27, section
F2700.2 requires a permit for display of fireworks and is to be issued by the Fire Marshal's
office at a cost of $25.00.
I have no problem recommending approval for issuance of a permit. Does this process
negate the Fire Prevention Code requirement?
3568 PETERS CREEK ROAD NW ROANOKE, VA 24019 (703) 561-8100
FAX TELEPHONE (703) 561-8108
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ACTION NO.
A-51292-7.d
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ITEM NUMBER '~`
AT A REGIILAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Acceptance of 0.29 miles of Mallard Lake Drive
and 0.09 miles of Mallard Lake Court into the
Virginia Department of Transportation Secondary
System.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION:
The Virginia Department of Transportation has accepted the
following roads into the VDOT Secondary System effective April 1,
1992:
- 0.29 miles of Mallard Lake Drive (Route 1250)
- 0.09 Miles of Mallard Land Court (Route 1251)
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Mary H. Allen
Clerk to the Board
Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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ACTION VOTE
Approved (~ Motion by: Bob r.. Johnson No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) Eddy x
Received ( ) Johnson x
Referred ( ) Kohinke x
To ( ) Minnix x
Nickens x
cc: File
Arnold Covey, Director, Engineering & Inspections
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RAY D. PETHTEL
COMMISSIONER
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
1401 EAST BROAD STREET
RICHMOND, 23219
April 22, 1992
Secondary System
Additions
Roanoke County
Board of Supervisors
County of Roanoke
P.O. Box 29800
Roanoke, VA 24018-0798
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD:
As requested in your resolution dated January 14, 1992, the following
additions to the Secondary System of Roanoke County are hereby approved,
effective April 1, 1992.
ADDITIONS
MALLARD LAKE ESTATES. SECTION 1
Route 1250 (Mallard Lake Drive) - From Route 934 to 0.29 mile
Southwest Route 934
Route 1251 (Mallard Lake Court) - From Route 1250 to 0.09 mile
Southeast Route 1250
Sincerely,
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ay D. Pethtel
Commissioner
TRANSPORTATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
LENGTH
0.29 Mi
0.09 Mi
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January 28, 1992
April 28, 1992
COIINTY OF ROANORE~ VIRGINIA
GENERAL FIIND IINAPPROPRIATED BALANCE
Audited Balance at
July 1, 1991
Mid-year budget review
Flood damages
Balance as of May il,
1992
Amount
$5,060,731
(771,314)
X200,000)
$4,089,417
Submitted By
Diane D. Hyatt
Director of Finance
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Fund Expenditures
7.23$
5.84
Note: On December 18, 1990 the Board of Supervisors adopted a goal statement
to maintain the General Fund Unappropriated Balance at 6.25$ of General Fund
expenditures ($70,036,927).
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COONTY OF ROANORE~ VIR~3INIA
CAPITAL FIIND IINAPPROPRIATED BALANCE
Beginning Balance at July 1, 1991 $ 6,097
August 15, 1991 Sale of Shamrock Park (Board approved
sale on March 26, 1991, Sale Finalized
August 1, 1991) 34,914
November 19, 1991 County Share of Traffic Light at
Northside High School and Peters
Creek Road (12,500)
December 17, 1991 Roanoke County Career Center Ball Field
Lights - Emergency Repairs (10,000)
December 17, 1991 Green Hill Park Playground Equipment (10,000)
Balance as of May il, 1992
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Submitted by
Diane D. Hyatt
Director of Finance
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RESERVE FOR BOARD CONTINGENCY
Beginning Balance at July 1, 1991 $ 50,000
July 9, 1991 Additional funds for Alleghany Health
District (8,000)
July 9, 1 991 Roanoke Valley Convention and Visitors
Bureau (3,000)
November 19, 1991 Transitional Living Center (10,000)
December 17, 1991 Vinyard Park Addition - Environmental
Assessment (10,000)
February 11, 1992 Legal Fees - Grumman Emergency Products (1,152)
February 28, 1992 Stop-Smoking Programs (1,500)
March 10, 1992 Contribution for Hazardous Household
Waste Disposal Day (3,300)
March 24, 1992 Legal Fees - Grumman Emergency Products (1,438)
Balance as of May il, 1992 $ 11,610
Submitted by
Diane D. Hyatt
Director of Finance
ACTION #
ITEM NUMBER ~'
AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANOKE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: May 1992 Report on 1991 Water Projects
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
We are planning a series of tours for the business community, elected officials, schools etc,
BACKGROUND•
In order to keep the Board of Supervisors informed, staff will
provide a monthly report on the progress of the Spring Hollow
Reservoir Project, Water Treatment Plant Project and the Water
Transmission Line Project.
Sprinct Hollow Reservoir Project
The construction of the reservoir is now in its sixth month and the
project is on schedule. The contractor has cleared a total of 120
acres, constructed the reservoir rim road around the entire
reservoir, continued reservoir grouting, which is now on schedule
and excavated for the 42 inch pipes that will pass through the dam.
The archaeological work on the potential historic site indicates
that the foundation to an 1865 house may be of some historical
interest and should be protected from future damage. Staff has
directed the engineer to redesign/align the dam access road so as
not to disturb the house foundation. The work involved is minor
and will not increase the project cost.
During the next month the contractor will continue reservoir
grouting on both the east and west side, place dental grouting in
the trench for the 42 inch pipe, install the 42 inch pipe under the
dam area, prepare the quarry and RCC plant area for use including
the required air quality permits and construct the dam access road.
Funds expended for the construction phase of the reservoir as of
May 1, 1992 are $1,168,052 for construction and $152,782 for
engineering construction phase services.
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Water Treatment Plant
The Water Treatment Plant is in the design phase. The following
contracts have been awarded relative to the design phase.
(1) Jones & Jones for architectural, mechanical and electrical
design for the water treatment plant building in an amount of
$128,575.
(2) Hazen and Sawyer for design of process display and controls in
an amount of $56,000.
(3) Anderson and Associates for sanitary survey of the Roanoke
River watershed in an amount of $36,100.
The design contract with Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern for the
Glenvar Pump Station has not been finalized.
Staff has continued to train personnel in water treatment plant and
water laboratory operation using the lab pilot treatment unit
located at the Service Center.
The 200,000 gallons per day pilot water treatment plant and
appurtenances have been installed at the Glenvar intake property.
Upon receipt of the filter underdrain piping, the pilot unit will
be placed in operation.
During the next month, work will continue on the pilot unit,
contract awarded for design of the Glenvar Pump Station,
preliminary engineering report and design of the treatment plant.
Staff will also meet with the Army Corp of Engineers to discuss the
conditions of the permit to operate the Spring Hollow Reservoir.
Water Transmission Line
The contract has been awarded to Lumsden Associates for the
facilities located south of the Roanoke River. Final negotiations
are being completed with T. P. Parker and Son for the contract on
facilities north of the Roanoke River.
Staff has evaluated proposals from lawyers to provide services
related to obtaining easements required for construction of the
water transmission line. The County Attorney is currently
negotiating a legal service contract.
During the next month, staff will select the desired location of
the water transmission line and begin contacting property owners
concerning the actual transmission line location and associated
easements.
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SUBMITTED BY:
Clifford a g, P.E.
Utility Director
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Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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ROANOKE VALLEY PROJECT UPDATE
RESOURCE AUTHORITY
MEETING DATE: Roanoke County Board of Supervisors -May 11, 1992
PROJECT: Roanoke Valley Resource Authority Solid Waste Facilities
STATUS: Smith Gap Landf~I:
Progress has continued on the clearing and grading operations with some
delays and problems associated with the weather and recent heavy rains.
Only minor damage occurred as a result of flooding. Work is behind
schedule, however, will be accelerated to meet contract deadlines.
The Part B Permit is pending in Richmond. Some changes in design
regulations will require submission of additional data on the liner system.
Transfer Station:
The Part A Permit has been submitted to the Department of Waste
Management for review and approval. No problems are anticipated at this
time.
The City Planning Commission has approved the conceptual site plan.
The environmental assessment has been completed with some minor
problems.
Modifications in the concept plan for the transfer station and the tipper
building are being considered at this time.
Rail Spur:
The construction of the rail line has begun. The contract has been
awarded to H.T. Bowling, Inc. No delays are anticipated at this time.
Acquisitions and right of entry hearings on several properties are
proceeding.
The rail equipment to be furnished by Norfolk Southern has been selected.
Norfolk Southern is on schedule to meet the July 1, 1993 deadline.
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SALEM CONTRACT:
On Apri121, 1992, the County, City and Town received a draft contract
for the Salem Member Use Agreement. Each was asked to review and
comment on the Agreement. To this date I have not received comments
from the County.
I anticipate the Resource Authority approving the Agreement at its May
21st meeting at which time all comments received from the Charter
Members will be considered in the final contract.
The overall project is progressing with some minor delays. Completion of all
components is anticipated to meet the projected schedules. Attached are project status sheets for
each component.
Respectfully submitted:
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Chief Executive Officer
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PROJECT STATUS SMITH GAP
LANDFILL
SCHEDULE 1992 1993 %
J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D C
WORK ITEMS A E A P A U U U E C 0 E A E A P A U U U E C O E O
N B R R Y N L G P T V C N B R R Y N L G P T V C M
U R C I E Y U T O E E U R C I E Y U T O E E P
A U H L S E B M M A U H L S E B M M L
R A T M E B B R A T M E B B E
Y R B R E E Y R B R E E T
Y E R R Y E R R E
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SITE CLEARING 100
ACCESS ROAD 2
TIPPER SITE ~ '•~ : ~ 30
DRAINAGE ~` '' 10
SED. POND #1 0
SED. POND #2 .. 0
LEACH. TANK RD ~ 0
WATER TANK RD
MISCELLANEOUS 1.2
DISPOSAL AREAS 0
DESIGN FINANCIAL STATUS CONSTRUCTION
5779,850 Contract Amount $3,068.541
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Change Orders
5779,850 TOTAL 53,068,541
$474,675 Payments to Date S 341,147
60°~ Percent of Total 12°~
Olver, Inc. Contractor Thomas Bros., Inc.
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PROJECT STATUS ROANOKE
TRANSFER STATION
1992 1993 %
SCHEDULE
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WORK ITEMS A E A P A U U U E C O E A E A P A U U U E C O E 0
N B R R Y N L G P T V C N B R R Y N L G P T V C M
U R C I E Y U T 0 E E U R C I E Y U T O E E P
A U H L S E B M M A U H L S E B M M L
R A T M E B B R A T M E B B E
Y R B R E E Y R B R E E T
Y E R R Y E R R E
R R
SUBMIT PART A 100
SUB. VARIANCE W I T H D R A W N 100
DESIGN 30
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CITY APPROVAL 60
ENVIR. ASSESS I ~ ~"`' 100
ENVIR. ASSESS II 100
ACQUISITION :r:.:;?:; 90
DEMOLITION 0
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DESIGN CONSTRUCTION
5460,000 Contract Amount
-0- Change Orders
5460,000 TOTAL
S 106,380 Payments to Date
23% Percent of Total
Olver, Inc. Contractor
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PROJECT STATUS NORFOLK SOUTHERN
RAIL SPUR
1992 1993 %
SCHEDULE
J F M A M J J A S 0 N D J F M A M J J A S 0 N D C
WORK ITEMS A E A P A U U U E C 0 E A E A P A U U U E C 0 E O
N B R R Y N L G P T V C N B R R Y N L G P T V C M
U R C I E Y U T O E E U R C I E Y U T O E E P
A U H L S E B M M A U H L S E B M M L
R A T M E B B R A T M E B B E
Y R B R E E Y R B R E E T
Y E R R Y E R R E
R R
DESIGN 100
ACQUISITION
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COVERS 0
FINANCIAL STATUS
ESTIMATED COST: 59,000,000 (Design, construction,
capital equipment)
RVRA to pay actual costs not to exceed 59,000,000. Payments to be made in accordance with contract.
Percent Complete:
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PROCLAMATION DECLARING THE WEEK OF APRIL 26
THROUGH MAY 2, 1992
AS NATIONAL VICTIM'S RIGHTS WEEK
WHEREAS, during the week of Apr1126 -May 2, 1992, PEOPLE AGAINST
IMPAIRED DRNERS has scheduled a local campaign to increase the public
awareness of the high number of deaths and serious injury among our citizens; and
WHEREAS, each day, 66 people die from the results of alcohol related
crashes and 960 are seriously injured; $31,000 a minute is paid out in claims by
Insurance companies; and
WHEREAS, driving after becoming impaired voluntarily by alcohol or
drugs, accounts for over 50% of deaths in alcohol related crashes; and
WHEREAS, the sponsors of this campaign believe that it is critically
important to focus attention to the rights of victims and educate for the prevention
of such.
NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Lee B. Eddy, Chairman of fhe Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, do hereby proclaim the week of Apri126 -
May 2, 1992, as VICTIM'S RIGHTS WEEK in Roanoke County, Virginia, and call upon
all citizens to join with me in supporting the aims, goals, and programs of PEOPLE
AGAINST IMPAIRED DRIVERS, for the benefit of our state's most precious resources,
our citizens.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the County of Roanoke, Virginia, to be affixed this 20th day of April, 1992.
Lif/`~'
Lee B. Eddy, Chairman
ATTEST:
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Mary H. len, Clerk
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PROCLAMATION DECLARING THE WEEK OF MAY 17 - 23, i 992
AS VIRGINIA RESCUE SQUAD WEEK
WHEREAS, the members of Virginia's rescue squads devote their
lives to saving the Ilves of others; and
WHEREAS, the people of Roanoke County benefit daily from the
knowledge and skill of these trained individuals; and
WHEREAS, advances in emergency medical care increase the number
of lives saved every year; and
WHEREAS, the volunteer and professional organizatIons of
providers of emergency medical servIces promote research to -mprove and
adapt their skills as new methods of emergency treatment are developed; and
WHEREAS, the members of Virginia's rescue squads encourage
national standardization of training and testing of rescue personnel and
reciprocal recognition of training and credentials by the States; and
WHEREAS, the designation of Virginia Rescue Squad Week will
serve to educate the people of Roanoke County about injury prevention and
what to do when confronted with a medical emergency; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate to recognize the value and the
accomplishments of our local rescue squads by designating Virginia Rescue
Squad Week.
NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Lee B. Eddy, Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, in recognition of this event, do
hereby proclaim the week of May 17 - 23, 1992, as VIRGINIA RESCUE SQUAD WEEK
and encourage the community to observe this week with appropriate programs,
Lee 8. Eddy, Chairman
ATTEST:
Mary H. A len, Clerk
ceremonies, and activities.
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PROCLAMATION DECLARING THE WEEK OF MAY 10 - 16, i 992
AS EMERGENCY MED/CAL SERV/CES WEEK
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WHEREAS, the members of emergency medical services teams devote
their lives to saving the lives of others; and
WHEREAS, emergency medical services teams consist of emergency
physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, educators, and
administrators; and
WHEREAS, the people of Roanoke County benefit daily from the
knowledge and skill of these trained individuals; and
WHEREAS, advances In emergency medical care increase the number
of lives saved every year; and
WHEREAS, the professional organizations of providers of emergency
medical services promote research to improve and adapt their skills as new
methods of emergency treatment are developed; and
WHEREAS, the members of emergency medical services teams
encourage national standardization of training and testing of emergency medical
personnel and reciprocal recognition of training and credentials by the States; and
WHEREAS, the designation of Emergency Medical Services Week will
serve to educate the people of Roanoke County about injury prevention and what
to do when confronted with a medical emergency; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate to recognize the value and the
accomplishments of emergency medical teams by designating Emergency Medical
Services Week.
THEREFORE, 1, Lee 8. Eddy, Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors of Roanoke County, Virginia, in recognition of this event, do hereby
proclaim the week of May 10 - 16, 1992, as EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WEEK
and encourage the community to observe this week with appropriate programs,
ceremonies, and activities.
Lee B. Eddy, Chairman
ATTEST:
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Mary H. lien, Clerk
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PROCLAMATION HONORING TIIa BARBER FOR
OUTSTANDING ATHL.L:T1C PERFORMANCE
WHEREAS, Tikl Barber Is a student at Cave Spring high School In Roanoke
County, Virginia; and
WHEREAS, Tiki has demonstrated his outstanding athletic ability throughout
the recent track and field season; and
WHEREAS, Tiki recently competed in the Metropolitan National Scholastic
Indoor Track and Fieid Championship, and placed third in the long jump category;
and
WHEREAS, his pertormance at a national event indicates his dedication to his
sport, and the training and discipline that are necessary to achieve the level of skill
necessary for national competition.
NOW, THEREFORE, we, Lee 8. Eddy, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of Roanoke County, Virginia, and H. Odell "Fuzzy" Minnix, Supervisor for the Cave
Spring Magisterial District, do hereby issue this Proclamation honoring TIKI BARBER
for his outstanding athletic performance during the recent national competition and
wish him luck in his future athletic endeavors.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and caused the seal
of the County of Roanoke,
Virginia to be affixed this 6th day of May, 1992.
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Lee B. Eddy, Chairman
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H. Odell "Fuzzy" Minnix
ATTEST:
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Mary H. A11en, Clerk
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PROCLAMATION HONOR/NG RONDE BARBER FOR
OUTSTANDING ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE
WHEREAS, Ronde Barber is a student at Cave Spring high School In Roanoke
County, Virginia; and
WHEREAS, Ronde has demonstrated his outstanding athletic ability
throughout the recent track and field season; and
WHEREAS, Ronde recently competed in the Metropolitan National Scholastic
Indoor Track and Field Championship, and placed second in the 55 meter hurdle
category; and
WHEREAS, his pertormance at a national event indicates his dedication to his
sport, and the training and discipline that are necessary to achieve the level of skill
necessary for national competition.
NOW, THEREFORE, we, Lee 8. Eddy, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of Roanoke County, Virginia, and H. Odell "Fuzzy" Minnix, Supervisor for the Cave
Spring Magisterial District, do hereby issue this Proclamation honoring RONDE
BARBER for his outstanding athletic pertormance during the recent national
competition and wish him luck in his future athletic endeavors.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and caused the seal
of the County of Roanoke, Virginia to be affixed this 6th day of May, 1992.
Lee B. Eddy, hairman
H. Odell "Fuzzy" Minnix
ATTEST:
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Mary H. Allen, Clerk
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PROCLAMATION HONORING THE CAVE SPRING HIGH SCHOOL
GIRLS BASi~TBALL TEAM
WHEREAS, the Cave Spring Hlgh School Girls Basketball Team has had an
outstanding season this year, with 25 wins and 3 losses; and
WHEREAS, the Team is the Roanoke Valley District Champions for the fifth
consecutive year, and the Northwest Regional Champions; and
WHEREAS, the team recently participated in the Triple A Girls State Basketball
Tournament for the second consecutive year; and
WHEREAS, the Team played into the Semi-Final round at the Tournament and
distinguished themselves by demonstrating excellent athletic ability and good
sportsmanship.
NOW, THEREFORE, we, Lee B. Eddy, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of Roanoke County, Virginia and H. Odell "Fuzzy" Minnix, Supervisor for the Cave
Spring Magisterial District, do hereby issue this Proclamation honoring the CAVE
SPRING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM for their outstanding
achievements during the past season.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and caused the seal
of the County of Roanoke Virginia to be affixed this 6th day of May, 1992.
Lee B. Eddy, Chairman
r~ ~
H. Odell "Fuzzy" Minnix
ATTEST:
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Mary H. Allen, Clerk
•BONDREN
SUGGESTED PROJECTS FOR THE BOND REFERENDiJ;v1
PENOVATION PROJECTS tSEE LIS`I' BELOW) 500,000
NEW FACILITIES iSEE ATTACHED PRIORITIZED LISTTS)'^ 500,000
1,000,000
'~ DISTRIBI?1'E AMONG THE MAGISTERIAL U1S`IRCTS, IF
MORE THAN S1.0 MILLION AU`l'HORIZED, CONTI`;GE DOWN
NEW FACILITI' PRIURI'1'IZED LISTS BY DISTA.IC~i .
RENOVATION PROJECTS COST'
BALL FIELD RENOVATIUNS
BACKSTOPS, PLAYER CONTROL FENCING,
AND SURFACE IviATERIALS FOR THE VARIOUS
BALL FIELDS - COL?NTY-WIDE 116,000
116,000
TENNIS COURT KENOVATIONS
CAVE SPRING HIGH SCHOOL 72,000
NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL 52,000
MISC. REPAIRS 86,400
210,400
TOTAL
FACILITY AND PLAYGROUND REPAIRS AND (A.D..-~.)
------------------------------------------------
CRAIG AVENUE CENTER HVAC 30,000
CRAIG AVENUE CENTER ADA 11,000
LEISURE ARTS CENTER ADA 11,000
WALROND PARK OFFICE ADA 4,500
GROUND COVER FOR PLAYGROUND EQUIPT. 42,000
ACCESS TO PARK RESTROOM FACILITIES (ADA) 15,100
TOTAL 113,600
OUTDOOR LIGHT REPAIRS
ROANOKE COUNTY CAREER CENTER 60,000
TOTAL 60,000
TOTAL RENOVATIONS 500,000
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DISTNEWi
BOND PR~~~ECTS FOR THE 1992 BOND REFERENDUM, NEW FACILITIES
DISTRiCi
RUNNING
HOLLINS MAGiS?ERIAL DISTRICT
----------------------------- PR0IBCT
-
--------------------
--
---
- COST
-------- fRIORIT'Y
- TOTAL
-----------------------------
WALROb'D PARK -
--
-
-
(1~ SOCCER FIELD -
31,OOJ -
------
1 ----------
31,000
WALROND PARK (l) BASEBALL FIELDS 62,OOfi 2 93,000
WALROND PARK LIGHT SOCCER FIELD 12,000 3 165,000
WALROND PARK PURCHASE OF LAND 50,000 4 215,000
WALROND PARK PARKING LOT 20,000 5 235,000
NORTHSIDEIFOkE?iSICS LA6 SITEI kE-ALIGN (2j BALL FIELDS 62,Oir_~ b 297,000
NEW 806'SACK PARK BALL FIELD (RECREATION ONLY! '20,O~~i i 317,000
NEw 80NSACK P~.RK PIr,NIC SHELTER 15,000 8 332,1?00
NEW BONSACK PARK PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT 10,Oi,~O 9 342,000
NBW BONSACK PARK PARKING 10,000 10 352,000
TOTAL FOR DISTRICT 352,000
DiSTRICI^
DiSTkiCT RUNNING
VINTUN DISTRiC
------------------------
------------------------ PROJECT
------
---------------------------------- COST
---------- PRIORITY
---------- TOTAL
---------
VINYARD PARK j2~ BASEBALL FIELDS 62,000 1 62,000
PINYARD PARK LIGHT COMB, SOCCER FIELDS 150,000 2 2i2,1)UO
VINYARD PARK UTILITIES FOR RESTRUOMS 25,000 3 237,000
VINYARD PARK PARKING BxPANSION 20,000 4 251,000
VINYARD PARK PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT 10,000 5 2b1,000
MOUNT PLEASANT PARK (1j BALL FIELD WITH LIGHTS 1`15,000 6 392,000
STONBBRIDGE ii UTILITIES FOR RBSTROOMS '15,000 7 417,000
TOTAL FOR DISTRICT 4 U ,000
DISTRICT
DISTRICT RUNNING
CATAWBA DISTRICT PROJECT
-------------------- COST PRIORITY TOTAL
-----------
WHISPBRING ------
PINES --------
PARK --------
-----
(1) LIGHTBD BALL FIELD -----------
91,000 --------
1 ----------
91,000
WHISPBRING PINES PARK UTILITIES FOR RBSTROOMS 25,000 'l 116,000
WHISPERING PINES PARK PARKING BYPANSION 10,000 3 1'16,000
GRBBN HILL PARK PARKING BxPANSION 10,000 4 136,000
WHISPBRING PINES PARK COMB. TBNNIS~BASKETBALL 3ti,000 5 112,000
GRBBN HILL PARK (2E PICNIC SHELTERS 30,000 ti 'lU'2,000
GRBBN HILL PARK (3~ TENNIS COURTS 54,000 7 256,000
TOTAL FOR DISTRICT 256,000
DISTNEWI
BOND PROJECTS FOR THE 1992 BOND Fs.~ERENDUM, NEW F'ACILiTiES
DISTR':~;T
DIS'IRIC'f RUNIiIb'
WINDSOR HILLS DISTRICT
--------------------------
-------------------------- PROJEC'T'
---------------------------------
---- COST
---------- PR.iORITY TOTAL
------------------
GARST NILL PARK LIGHTS F';~ 12! FIELDS 124,U00 12':,00%
NEW FIELDS (CONPLE~) (41 FIEFS 12+,000 2 248,Oo1;
HIDDEN VALLEY 11) NEW MELD 31,1?I1I) 3 219,OGi)
NEW FIELDS ICONPLBK) UTILITIES FOR RESTROONS 26,090 4 304,0~?0
GARST HILL PARK (1~ FOOTBALL FIELD W~BRIDGE 31,000 S 336,0!il)
NBW FIELDS ICONPLB~I PURCHASE I,aND 50,000 6 386,J0!J
TOTAL FOR DISTRICT 385,000
DISTRi~T
L~ISTRiC'i RUNNING
CAVE SPRING DISTPICT PROJECT COST PRiURiTF TOTAL
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STARKBY TRBATNBNT PLANT
STARKBY PARK
STARKBY TREATMENT PLANT
STARKBY TREATMENT PLANT
STARKBY TRBATNBNT PLANT
STARKBY PARK
1.2- BALL FIELDS
(2) NEW BALL FIELDS
(1) FOOTBALL FIELD
LIGHTS FOE (1) BALL FIELD
LIGHTS FOR (21 SOCCER FIELDS
UTILITIES FOR RESTROOMS
62,000 ~ 62,000
62,000 'l 1%4,000
31,000 3 1§6,OOD
62,000 4 211,000
144,000 § 361,01)0
26,UG0 b 386,000
TOTAL FOR DISTRICT
GRAND TOTAL FOR NRW FACILITIES
386,000
1,796,000
OTHER ITEMS NOT INCLUDED IN PRIORITI' LISTS FOR BOND REFEKENDUM
UNFUNDED ITEMS FOR KENOVATION
BLEACHEKS W/ CONCRETE PADS @ $.3,500 210,000
SOCCER GOALS @ 2,000 PER SET 12,000
FOOTBALL GOALS @ 4,000 PER SET 8,000
OUTDOOR BASKETBALL COURT REPAIRS (20} 70,000
OTHER TENNIS COURT IMPROVEMENTS 268,400
REPAIR ROOFS AT PICNIC SHELTERS i5) 40,000
UPGRADE OUTDOOR LIGHTING (3) 180,000
IMPROVE PARKING LOTS (6) 60,000
BASIC IMPROVEMENTS Al CAMP ROANOKE 28,000
876,400
UNFUNDED ITEMS FOR NEW CONSTRUCTIOti
PER STAFF SUGGESTION
NOT INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT LIST
------------------------------------------------
NEW OR EXPAND PARKING LOTS (6) 120,000
NEW RESTROOMS W/ UTILITIES (4) 100,000
NEW OUTDOOR BASKETBALL COURTS 7 @ 18,000 126,000
NEW PICNIC SHELTERS 17 @ 12,000 204,000
NEW TRAILS AT HAPPY HOLLOW 15,000
NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT (7) 70,000
635,000
OTHER UNFUNDED MASTER PLAN IMPROVEMENTS (ESTIMATED)
-----------------------------------------------------------
GREEN HILL PARK 5,000,000
HAPPY HOLLOW GARDENS 600,000
STARKEY PARK 1,000,000
VINYARD PARK (OLD) 1,000,000
WALROND PARK 1,000,000
WHISPERING PINES PARK 500,000
9,100,000
GRAND TOTAL CAPITAL NEEDS 12,907,400
BONDTYPE
PARK BOND IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE PROPOSED 1990 BOND kEFERENUUM
PARK NAME IMPROVEMENT
------------ COST
----------- GROUP
--------- DISTRICT
--------------
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BACK CREEK ELEMENTARY -------------------
BACKSTOPlPLAYEk FENCE 5,100 Ai CAVE SPRING
BROOKSIDB PARK BACKSTOPIPLAYER FENCE 5,000 Al HOLLiNS
BURLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BACKSTOP OVERHANG >11 5,0U0 Ri HOLLINS
9URLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAYER rr"Ei+CE 81 & ~' =,00!) Al HO L:, INS
CLEAP,BROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 'TEMPORARY FENCIN~~:~ ~,0~!!1 Al CAVE SPRiN(~
GRBEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEMPORARY FENCING ,,!1!~L~ Al CAVE SPRING
HIDDEN VALLEY PLAYER FENCE 8~ t,~i~.:~i! Al WTNLs_OR HILLS
NIDDBN VALLEY BACKST'OP!PLAYE° FENCE ~1 `,00~~ Al WINT~SOR HILLS
NT. VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BACKSTOP!PLAYER FENCE 5,000 Al HOLLiNS
NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL BACKSTOF!PLAYERr'ENCE ±?I 10,0110 Al H'aLLNS
OAK GROVE PARK TEMPORARY FENCIN~1 4,000 Al WINDSOR HILLS
OTHBR BALL FIELDS T1ikFP,C6 §4,000 A?
P~0.4NOKE COIiNTY uC~;OPATIONAL SCHOOL BACKSTOP!PLAYER FENCE 5,0!?G P:1 HOLLiNS
STONEBRIDf,E II PLAYER FENCE fi 1,000 Al VIHTON
VINTON WAR MEMORIAL j~AYCE6~ PLAYER FENGE `1,000 Al ViN"ON
11ti,000
BONDTYPE
PARK BOND IMPROVEMENTS i'OR THE PROPOSED 1942 BOND REFERENDUM
PARK NAME
-------------------------------
----------- IMPROVEMENT
-------------------------- COST
--------- GROUP
-------- DISTRICT
--------------
BBNT MOUNTAIN ELBMENTAP~Y TESNIS COURT P,ECONSTRUCT (1( 1x,000 B? WINDSOR HILLS
CAVE SPRING NIGH SCHOOL TENNIS COURTS - RBCUNSTRUGT (4j 12,000 81 CAVE SPRING
CLBARBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TENNIS COURTS - RECONSTRUCT (2i 36,000 B? CAVE SPRING
MT. PLEASANT PARK TENNIS COIIRTS - RECONSTRi1CT (3J 54,i)pQ Bt UINTUN
180,OOG
DARRELL SHELL PARK TENNIS COURTS -OVERLAY (31 36,000 B2 CAVB SPRING
GARST MILL PARK TENNIS COURTS - OVERLAY ?3j 39,000 62 WINDSOR HILLS
MT. VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TENNIS COURTS -OVERLAY (i) 13,000 B"2 HOLLINS
NORTBSIDE HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS COURTS - OVERLAY (41 X2,000 B2 HOLLINS
WALROND PARK TENNIS COURTS -OVERLAY (101 130,OOG 62 HOLLINS
270,000
GEARHART PARK TENNIS COURTS -SEAL (2J 4,800 B3 VINTON
GLBNVAR HIGH SCHOOL TE`±NIS COURTS -SEAL (4j 9,600 83 GATAWBA
OAK GROVE PARK TENNIS COURTS -SEAL (1j 2,400 B3 WINDSOR HILLS
STONEBRIDGE I TENNIS COURTS -SEAL (4j 9,600 B3 VINT09
VINTON WAR MBMORIAL (JAYCEBj TENNIS COURTS -SEAL (1- 2,400 B3 VINTGN
2s,soo
ACTION NO.
ITEM NUMBER ~-~'
AT A REGIILAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ROANORE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA HELD AT THE ROANORE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER
MEETING DATE: May 12, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Joint Work Session with the Parks and
Recreation Commission
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S COMMENTS:
SIIMMARY OF INFORMATION:
This time has been set aside for a joint work session with the
Parks and Recreation Commission. More detailed information will
be available at the meeting.
~.~~-nom,/ C. /'~~ ~- / a.
Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
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ACTION VOTE
Approved ( ) Motion by: No Yes Abs
Denied ( ) Eddy
Received ( ) Johnson
Referred ( ) Kohinke
To ( ) _ Minnix
Nickens
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WORK SESSION
Board of Supervisors
Parks and Recreation
Advisory Commission
U-/
April 28, 1992
L
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WORK SESSION
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY COMMISSION
APRIL 28, 1992
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Parks Division Highlights 1
1991-92 Projects 2
On-Going Projects 5
Recreation Highlights 7
Fee Report 9
Upcoming Events 10
Needs of the Department 11
Interaction with the User Community 12
Process for Improvements 13
Attachment I 14
Attachment II 15
Bond Referendum Proposal 20
Update on Other Projects and Activities of the
Farks and Recreation Advisory Commission 22
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Summary
PARKS AND RECREATION WORK SESSION
APRIL 28, 1992
PARKS DIVISION HIGHLIGHTS
The Parks Division is responsible for the maintenance of the
grounds around all public buildings of the County (except schools)
and all park and recreational areas. This task is accomplished
with the 24 persons assigned to the Parks Division with some
contractual assistance, particularly in the area of grass cutting.
These properties include approximately 950 acres including the
areas around 22 County buildings, 20 park facilities, and 25 school
parks.
To reduce travel time, as well as wear and tear on equipment,
our staff is organized into two service regions. The North Region
handles the Glenvar, Catawba, Hollins, and North County areas.
This team operates from the Kessler Mill Road facility with some
equipment stored at Green Hill Park. The South Region is divided
into two districts with one team operating out of the Darrell Shell
facility to maintain the Windsor Hills, Cave Spring and Clearbrook
areas and the second team operating out of the Gearhart Park
facility to maintain the Vinton, Mount Pleasant, and Southeast
County areas.
Attachment I is the operational schedule for 1992 showing the
time when the staff will have athletic fields ready for use, when
lights will be turned on for tennis courts, when soils will be
added to fields, etc. This information was given to the Presidents
of the Recreation Clubs at their meeting on January 15.
Attachment 2 shows the allocation of operating dollars between
the North and South Regions of the County for the 1991-92 fiscal
year. In several instances, one employee has been assigned County
-wide responsibility to monitor certain contracts or maintenance
costs (Ex. electricity for park facilities, contract for portable
toilets, vehicle maintenance, etc.) Monies for expendable supplies
and minor repair items have been prioritized by staff for the
service area.
For the past few years, no new dollars have been allocated
for capital improvements, new or replacement equipment, or
increased human resources. Our motor equipment and rolling stock
continue to experience mechanical failure and breakdowns which
impair our ability to schedule our heavy equipment for use on a
regular basis. The track loader, grader and dump trucks are
essential to our efforts to keep the playing surface of our
athletic fields in a safe and functional condition. The smaller
trucks, tractors, specialty mowers and paint equipment provide the
"dress-up appearance" as well as the functionality to the fields
for competitive play.
We are using the assistance of a contract mowing service to
help keep the lawns and grounds around the public buildings
attractive and also to help cut some of the larger common areas in
our parks. Thus far, this alternative has been satisfactory.
However, in the long run, we still need to make arrangements to
purchase suitable replacement equipment so that we may continue to
provide for the finish work on our facilities.
By working with the individual recreation clubs, PTA groups,
and adjusting the priorities, we have been able to make some
improvements to our facilities. Listed below are some of the
projects accomplished during the current fiscal year with a
description of the work performed and a discussion of the funding
sources.
1991-92 PROJECTS
BALL FIELD AT GREEN VALLEY SCHOOL
This joint project with the local recreation club, school and
parks and recreation department provided much needed improvements
to the T-ball field located on school property immediately adjacent
to the school. The club provided nearly $2,000 worth of materials
and in-kind contribution to the $3,000 expended by our department
to completely rebuild this field. The work improved the drainage
of the facility, safety of the playing surface, and functionality
of the field both for school and recreational use.
SOCCER FIELDS AT VINYARD PARK
Last year, the County operated two soccer fields at Vinyard
Park in the area closest to Berkley Road. At the end of the soccer
season, the area was graded which will allow for the development
of three soccer fields and also provide the opportunity to stagger
the alignment of the fields to spread the wear on the playing
surface. The Vinton Recreation Club provided $2,000 towards this
project and the County provided $5,000.
Unfortunately, the severe flooding at this site on April 21
damaged much of the fencing and parking area at Vinyard Park; and
we will be spending much effort to bring this facility back on line
as quickly as possible. It remains too wet to completely assess
the damage to the playing surfaces at this time.
EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO LIGHTS AT THE ROANOKE COUNTY CAREER CENTER
(OLD WILLIAM BYRD HIGH SCHOOL} FIELD
Earlier this year, $10,000 was appropriated from the Capital
Reserve Fund to make emergency repairs to the lighting system at
the Career Center field. Two of the poles containing the light
fixtures and one pole containing the switch equipment was
determined to be unsaf e and in need of replacement . All of the
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poles were tested and the necessary repairs were made. The system
still contains an antiquated switch system which needs to be
replaced; however, it is still functioning at this time. The cost
of the emergency repairs was $12,500.
NEW FIELD AT BURTON COMPLEX
The ball fields behind the Arnold R. Burton Vocational
Technical School are used primarily for adult athletics. Staff
has used in-house equipment and labor and the fill dirt from the
construction activity at the Veterans Medical Center to build an
additional field behind the school. This field is being allowed
to settle at this time and should be available for use in the
spring of 1993.
M. A. BANKS PARK
This community playground area was fixed-up and dedicated to
the memory of M. A. Banks, a community leader in the Gladetown area
of the Town of Vinton, in December, 1991. The cost of this project
was $1,000 and was accomplished using in-house labor and equipment.
POLO FIELD AT GREEN HILL PARK
The Symphony received a gift of $100, 000 to help develop a
polo field at Green Hill Park. The County spent nearly $21,000 in
addition to this to irrigate the property and help in the final
preparation of the match which was held in October, 1991.
BATTING CAGES, OUTDOOR COURTS RENOVATION AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AT
THE VINTON WAR MEMORIAL FIELD
The Town of Vinton expressed a need to expand the parking
capacity at the Vinton War Memorial facility and asked to consider
using the paved basketball court area to minimize the cost. The
Vinton Recreation Club also desired to use part of the old tennis
court area to develop a batting cage area for the baseball and
softball programs.
We were able to develop a plan at minimal cost to address
these and other safety needs at this site. Since the four old
tennis courts were in poor repair and only two actually had nets
for play, it was decided to allow the club permission to build its
batting cage equipment on the two courts furthest away from the War
Memorial building. The remaining two courts were re-oriented and
developed into one tennis court of regulation size. The remaining
paved area was changed into a full court basketball facility.
The cost to the County was $2,600 for the realignment and finish
to the surface of the playing courts and the relocation of the
fencing.
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The County also installed a safety net above the outfield
fence to prevent fly balls from the baseball field from damaging
the windshields of cars parked in the War Memorial parking lot.
MISCELLANEOUS REPAIRS
Numerous maintenance and repair operations are on-going
throughout the County system. Back stops and player control
fencing is being replaced with the worst conditioned facilities
being addressed first. Nearly $11,000 is being spent on this
project.
Approximately $9,000 has been spent to add new dirt to the
infields of our ball fields. Staff has also aerated the outfield
areas, fertilized and over-seeded the playing field areas. Staff
has been able to accomplish this County-wide by not having to be
involved with the leaf collection program during the fall and
winter months.
Staff assisted the Mt. Pleasant Recreation Club with the
marking off of the area for their batting cages and provided some
general repairs to the Willie Martin Park off of Rutrough Road.
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ON-GOING PROJECTS
SOAP BOX DERBY TRACK AT WALROND PARK
Construction of the new soap box derby track has begun at
Walrond Park. The engineering and construction of the facility is
being handled by Wes Crowe of the Roanoke Area Soap Box Derby, Inc.
County's involvement has been in the assistance of screening and
in the coordination of volunteer efforts to plant the trees. This
new facility will allow for regional competition at this site
which, like other competitive recreational opportunities, helps in
the tourism efforts with the attendant financial benefits.
DISCUSSIONS WITH ROANOKE VALLEY YOUTH SOCCER GROUP FOR USE OF GREEN
HILL PARK
Staff has held preliminary discussions with the Roanoke Valley
Youth Soccer organization about using the polo fields at Green Hill
Park for soccer programs. This concept is compatible with the on-
going use of this facility and the soccer group would help in the
development and maintenance of the area. As in the case of the
Valley Youth Soccer group who contracted with the County to lease
the property at the old Starkey Sewage Treatment Plant, we will be
bringing back to the Board of Supervisors a long-term contract when
the details have been completed.
PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT AT GREEN HILL PARK
On December 17, 1991, the Board of Supervisors appropriated
$10,000 to provide playground equipment at Green Hill Park. This
equipment will finalize the replacement of comparable facilities
from the sale of the property behind the Glenvar Library for
economic development purposes. Staff has met with interested
community leaders to help design the apparatus and our Procurement
Department is receiving bids for its installation. The work should
be completed this summer.
PLANS FOR PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT AT PENN FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Staff has met with Recreation Club leaders, PTA Leaders, and
School officials to consider the long term needs of the Darrell
Shell Park area and also the possible installation of a new
playground apparatus at the Penn Forest Elementary School. The
Board of Supervisors authorized the Penn Forest School to receive
grant monies at the April 14, 1992, meeting which will provide
opportunities to receive playground equipment that will be
accessible to disabled persons as well as the general school and
community populations. Parks and Recreation staff will assist in
the installation of the equipment; however, the on-going
maintenance will be the responsibility of the school.
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LIGHTS ON GREEN HILL FIELD #1
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The Glenvar Youth Baseball
lighting of the Green Hill #1
the construction, installation
pment and the County will be
electrical cost.
League
ball
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is considering paying for
field. The league will pay
and purchase of the lighting
responsible for the on-going
RECREATION HIGHLIGHTS
AFTER SCHOOL for KIDS (A.S.K. PROGRAM)
This program is operated by the Recreation Division using
school facilities. The program operates on the same schedule as
the school system including being closed because of snow or bad
weather.
During the 1991-92 school year, we are operating in six
schools, (Penn Forest, Back Creek, Masons Cove, Herman L. Horn,
Mt. Pleasant, W. E. Cundiff). The programs are only offered when
our department has been invited in by the school and PTA. We are
not attempting to be in competition with the private sector day
care facilities, but to offer an alternative where needed in the
community.
The program requires a minimum of 16 participants and has a
maximum capacity of 40 per site. The average is 25 - 35 per site.
The cost to the family is $35 per week per child with a discounted
rate of $19 for a second child. One modified after school program
is held at Green Valley Elementary School to provide supervised
care two days per week.
PARTICIPATION WITH THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES OF VIRGINIA
Our department is working hand in hand with the Virginia
Amateur Sports in preparation for the Commonwealth Games of
Virginia to be held in the Roanoke Valley this summer. Marcia
Patton is working 32 hours per week in a coordinating capacity and
is helping to direct our department's effort to these events. We
want this program to be successful in the Valley in hopes that we
can help to keep this competition here in the future. We certainly
recognize the economic benefit of this effort and will give it our
best.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
The other sections of the Recreation Division continue to
schedule programs of interest to all segments of our community.
The Youth Athletics area continues to grow and is causing a strain
on the resources available to our department. Participation has
grown from 405 teams in 1988 to 580 teams in 1991. We currently
have no mechanism to limit the number of teams we can serve, and
each new team represents a challenge to schedule more games, mark
more fields, pay more officials, etc. At this time, the only fees
we receive from this group is $5 per team, which does not begin to
cover the cost of our operations.
In the study of Youth Athletics and Recreation Services, it
was noted that we currently maintain 78 athletic fields for games
and practice for soccer, baseball, softball and football. To
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adequately meet the needs of the program today, we need at least
five new fields and renovations to eleven others. The capital need
for these facilities is addressed in our discussion on the proposed
bond referendum.
Capital facilities, however, are not the only need. We also
need dependable equipment to maintain the facilities, staff to plan
and manage the programs, and resources to cover the related
expenses. The Board of Supervisors has previously indicated its
support of opportunities for the youth of our community, but our
budgetary allocations are not keeping pace with the increased
request for services.
Our program efforts are not only for the youth athletics. We
also provide opportunities in the areas of recreation for Senior
Adults, Therapeutics, Adult Athletics, Community Education, Leisure
Arts, Outdoor Education, and Special Events. A brochure is
provided to County residents as a newspaper insert quarterly (copy
enclosed) to advise of recreation opportunities. Our emphasis is
on providing introductory type programs for the leisure activities.
We do not attempt to provide direct competition to the private
sector. If persons are serious about developing more intense
skills in arts, crafts, or specialized athletic skills, it is
suggested that they work through the private sector to accomplish
these needs.
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CURRENT PARKS AND RECREATION FEE ORDINANCE
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
LEISURE ARTS
OUTDOOR EDUCATION
SENIOR CITIZENS
SPEC I P,L EVENTS
THERAPEUTICS
P,DULT ATHLETICS
YOUTH P,THLETICS
REGISTRATION
FEE
SHARE
INDIRECT
COSTS
25%
25%
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0%
40%
0%
0%
0%
SHARE
DIRECT
COSTS
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
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COMMUNITY EDUCATION
LEISURE ARTS
OUTDOOR EDUCATION
SENIOR CITIZENS
SPECIAL EVENTS
THERAPEUTICS
ADULT ATHLETICS
YOUTH ATHLETICS
~5 PER PERSON
~5 PER PERSON
0
0
0
0
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1991-92
PROJECTED
REVENUE
160,753
46,985
30,275
54,953
18,268
21, 229
48,737
3,840
385, 039
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
LEISURE ARTS
OUTDOOR EDUCATION
SENIOR CITIZENS
SPECIAL EVENTS
THERAPEUTICS
ADULT ATHLETICS
YOUTH ATHLETICS
1992-93
PROJECTED
REGISTRANTS
2,340
2,000
1,152
2,860
1,440
2, 426
6,415
1991-92
PROJECTED
DIRECT
EXPENSES
123,556
29, 455
29, 669
49,616
15,934
11, 548
51, 441
1, 445
312,664
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1991-92
PROJECTED
PROFIT
37,197
17, 530
606
5, 337
2,334
9, 681
(2, 704 )
2,395
72,375
UPCOMING EVENTS
There are several special events being planned for the next
few months. The Family Festival is scheduled for Green Hill Park
May 14 - 16, 1992. including a car show jointly sponsored by
Advance Auto Parts. A Civil War Re-enactment of "The Battle of
South Salem" is planned for August 8 - 9, 1992, and the "Native
American Heritage Festival and Pow Wow" to be held at Glenvar High
School October 16 - 17, 1992. More information will be forwarded
to you as these events take shape.
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NEEDS OF THE DEPARTMENT
There are several specific needs and concerns of the
Department which must be planned and addressed in the coming
months. The major projects are outlined below.
ADA COMPLIANCE FOR FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a reality and must be
addressed in several ways. Access to all buildings and facilities
must be accessible to the physically disabled, including all of the
normal operations of the departments. Where practical for service
operations, you may simply accommodate the need of the person by
taking an application at an accessible point or delivering the
product to the individual. Efforts should be made, however, to
mainstream these persons into the normal planned activities in
accessible locations.
Each program, in addition to the facility, should be evaluated
to see that the need of the disabled is being addressed. Care
should be given to advise potential customers of your ability to
handle special requests (large print editions, signers, etc.) our
Parks and Recreation Department is already accustomed to addressing
these needs and is helping the County's ADA Committee inventory and
plan for these contingencies.
Of particular concern is the need to provide a suitable ground
cover around the playground equipment at the County park sites.
This expense has not been budgeted for the 1992-93 fiscal year but
will need to be addressed with other ADA compliance costs and
subsequent budgets. A master plan of the County's ADA needs is
being developed for the July, 1992, deadline. A copy of this plan
will be presented to the Board of Supervisors at a late date.
EQUIPMENT AND RESOURCES TO MANAGE, PROGRAM, AND MAINTAIN PRESENT
AND ANY NEW FACILITIES
As stated before, we not only need proper capital facilities
for use by our department, but also the equipment and resources to
properly manage, program and maintain these facilities. Operating
and personnel budgets have remained static and no provision has
been made to purchase or replace equipment. Maintenance is
important, but the resources to properly program and manage is
vital to obtain maximum efficiency.
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INTERACTION WITH THE USER COMMUNITY
Our staff realizes the impact of our limited resources and
has sought ways to improve our communications and relationships
with the user community. Our staff attends meetings with the
Presidents of the various Recreation Clubs, regular meetings of
the individual clubs, civic groups and other groups interested in
recreational programs. We seek mutually beneficial solutions to
operational concerns and have shared in the cost of making facility
improvements. This positive effort has helped to keep the lines
of communication open and has allowed more innovative solutions to
be developed.
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PROCESS FOR IMPROVEMENTS
STAFF INVENTORY
As we consider the needs within each community, we begin with
the input of our own staff, both parks division and recreation
division. These employees work closest to the facilities and
participants and hear and see the concerns first.
DISCUSSION WITH CLUB REPRESENTATIVES FOR COMPATIBILITY
Once the needs and concerns have been identified, meetings
are. held with Recreation Club Representatives to discuss the
priority of the work, the available resources, and the impact to
the community. If solutions can be identified at this level with
existing resources, the plans are implemented.
PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION
If the proposal requires change in policy or represents a new
offering to the community, the change is reported to the
Commission. This body suggests appropriate p° ust to dindividual
the impact to the total community and not j
special interest groups or particular neighborhoods.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATION AND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
The adoption of all policy or ordinances and the approval of
all funding is the responsibility of the County Administration and
Board of Supervisors. This includes the adoption of the operating
budget, the consideration of bond referenda, adoption of ordinances
and the service levels to be maintained by the department.
FUNDING ALTERNATIVES
Monies for personnel, equipment and operating expenses are
included in the operating budget of the County. Bond proceeds are
restricted to capital facilities which would normally have a useful
life of twenty or more years since that represents the average
repayment schedule for bonded borrowing. There have been some
grants and matching funds available in the past and it is hoped
that future bond proceeds may be leveraged against such matching
funds to expand the net benefit to the community.
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BOND REFERENDUM PROPOSAL
As part of the 1992-93 budget package, the Board of
Supervisors is considering a bond referendum which could be held
in November, 1992. The. suggested size of the bond proposal would
be approximately $10 Million ($5 Million for Schools and $5 Million
for other projects). Of the $5 Million suggested for other
projects, $1 Million would be for Parks and Recreation.
Staff has previously identified over $2.8 Million in the
Capital Improvements Program for renovations to or replacement of
existing facilities used by our Department. There are also
projects in the Master Plans developed for each of our park sites
in 1986 which total nearly $12 Million and do not include the new
tract at Vinyard.
Because no capital monies have been available in recent years
to provide renovations or major repairs to our park facilities,
staff has suggested that our first emphasis be to make our existing
facilities safe and accessible before adding to our inventory. Our
second emphasis would be to provide the most critically needed
facilities, and then continue to systematically develop the various
phases of the Park Master Plans as resources become available.
Obviously, $1 Million will not begin to cover the serious needs
within the department, but we feel that we can leverage these
dollars to match grants and/or private monies to expand the benefit
to our programs.
The attached listing shows $528,000 for renovation projects
and uses the dollar amounts shown in the capital improvements plan
for the first year for several more critical needs. Our staff is
preparing an inventory of improvements to be considered within the
framework of this document and will seek assistance from the
community and the Commission in placing a priority on these items.
The $440,000 for new fields is based on the needs identified
in the staff report dealing with Youth Athletics. We have not
identified specific sites at this point and would likewise seek
community and Commission advice and approval in structuring this
section.
The third category for $32,000 represents a small amount to
purchase land, if necessary, to accommodate the need for any new
facilities. Among some of the needs already identified are the
need for a park in the Bonsack (Orchards) area, more facilities in
the Windsor Hills area, and consideration of a complex utilizing
developmental funds from the private sector.
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Bond monies should be used for capital items which either
prolong the expected life of the infrastructure or have a useful
life of 20 years or more since the bonds will likely be repaid over
a 20 year period. In preliminary discussions to the Board of
Supervisors, we have expressed the need for additional meeting room
space for programming in other areas of the County and also the
need to provide the manpower, equipment and resources necessary to
maintain any expansion to the number of facilities we have today.
The County needs to develop a proposal that is diversified
enough to generate interest in all sections of the County, yet not
be parochial so as to be detrimental in the efficient operation of
our department.
BOND ISSUE PROPOSAL
PARKS AND RECREATION PROJECTS
RENOVATION PROJECTS:
Ball Field and Court Renovations
Tennis Court Renovations
Shelter and Playground Equipment Renovations
Outdoor Lighting Renovations
Total Renovations
11 New Ball Fields at $40,000 each
Purchase of Land
TOTAL
$ 194,000
170,000
78,000
86,000
$ 528,000
440,000
32,000
$1,000,000
Additional monies will be needed to maintain new ball fields and/or
facilities included in the bond program.
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UPDATE ON OTHER PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY COMMISSION
YOUTH ATHLETICS STUDY
Staff has studied the current service levels of the Youth
Athletics Section and the resources available to support those
services. This study has been presented to the Advisory Commission
for their input, advice and guideisure Serv ces yTeam for o their
presented to the Department's L
review and recommendations.
The growing demand for youth athletic services has placed a
strain on the Department's resources. All resource areas are being
utilized beyond the maximum acceptable level to maintain quality
services. Since 1988 there has been a 43% increase in
participation, while the Recreation Section has only been given a
3% increase in budget to provide the service.
This growth has directly affected the Recreation Division's
ability to fund the programmatic costs as well as the capital
development and maintenance cost of facilities. Programmatic costs
include the salaries of sports officials, facility supervisors,
and timekeepero~aed toem et this demandreach year phel qual tytof
leagues. In
the programs has suffered.
To adequately meet the existing needs of the youth athletic
community, staff recommends that an additional $10,000 be allocated
for sports officials, five new athletic fields be constructed and
11 existing oueht he eroposed bond referendpumta Programmatic costs
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need to be addressed through the budget process.
SENIOR CITIZENS SURVEY
Staff and the Advisory Commission have studied the changing
demographic profile of citizens in Roanoke County and how this
impacts on the program services offered by the Department. The
study shows that Roanoke County's senior adult population is one
of the fastest growing age groups in the region. In 1989 the total
senior (55+j population was 13,777. It has been projected that the
total population of Roanoke County will be 105,400 in the year 2003
with 28% of the residents over age 55.
Currently, on an annual basis, 220 programs providing 45,760
hours of service to 3,300 individuals are provided at the Ogden
Center and five satellite centers in the community. The satellite
centers utilize churches, libraries and firehouses to provide
programs on a part-time basis.
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With the above in mind, the need to provide increased senior
services and improved facilities is paramount. An assessment of
senior recreation needs was conducted in April, 1989, to determine
the attitudes and interests of senior adult participants in the
Department's programs. This assessment has been instrumental in
the Commission's recommendation to provide additional indoor and
outdoor facilities, programs and transportation for this growing
population.
TEEN STUDY
The Advisory Commission developed a survey to determine the
recreation needs and interests of Roanoke County's teen population.
Staff distributed 6,896 surveys throughout Roanoke County's middle
and high schools. With the support of the school administration,
students were asked to complete the surveys in homerooms. 4,682
completed surveys were tabulated utilizing senior citizen
volunteers, staff and the Department's Leisure Services Team. This
return represents 67% of the total population of teens enrolled in
the County school system.
26.7% of the respondents are not aware of activities sponsored
by the County . The top five recreation programs or activities that
teens are interested in are as follows:
17.4% team sports 7.7% teen dances
9.9% teen overnight trips 7.0% individual sports
8.9o spectator sports
86.7% of the respondents feel that there is a need for a
recreation facility geared primarily toward Roanoke Valley teens.
Teens are most interested in gymnasium activities, game rooms,
dances, exercise programs, and weightlifting, if a facility was
made available. 68.7% want the County to offer more activities for
teens. 49% stated that there is not much to do or offered in the
Valley that they are interested in. 77.8% want to have a voice in
the planning of a facility.
The major concensus reached by all parties is that the Parks
and Recreation Department should begin immediately to improve
marketing and publicity for its programs, services and facilities
designed for teens. It appears that the services are available but
the teens are not aware that they exist. Staff should begin to
tap into the network of community resources striving to meet the
needs of teens in the Valley to maximize the Department's efforts
and resources, as well.
The Commission has submitted the survey results and
recommendations to Mr. Hodge for his input and will release the
results to the Board of Supervisors, court system, school system
and other appropriate community service organizations.
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SUMMARY
GOALS
The Recreation Division will endeavor to provide high quality
recreational and leisure activity opportunities to the residents
of our community at affordable prices. We will consider the needs
of the total community and provide safe, educational and relaxing
programs which teach basic skills and allow the residents to try
new adventures and develop new interests.
The Parks Division will maintain the integrity and aesthetics
of the facilities we are charged to manage and will provide safe
and functional areas for the enjoyment of our community.
The Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission will monitor the
ever-changing needs of our total community and recommend policies,
programs, and facilities to enhance the quality of life for our
residents.
BOND REFERENDUM
The Commission and staff wholeheartedly endorse the suggested
bond referendum for the County. Our highest priority is the proper
maintenance and care of our existing facilities, followed by the
addition of prioritized capital facilities to meet the current and
foreseeable needs of our community. Finally, the full development
of our various parks in accordance with the Capital Improvements
Program of the County and in accordance with the Master Plan for
the various park areas should be considered. In all cases of
improvement, we not only need to look at the capital facility
needs, but also the on-going costs to maintain, manage and program
the sites appropriately.
COMMUNITY STUDIES
The Department and Commission need to continue to study the
ever changing needs and demographics of our community and determine
its impact on the programs and facilities of the County. We must
provide access to all segments of the population and also be able
to market the programming so as to gain the maximum utilization.
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ROANOKE COUrN'TY PUBLIC LIBRARY
SYSTEM COMPARISON
May, 1990 - April, 1991 vs. May, 1991 - April, 1992
CIRCULATION
5/90-4/91
616,765
LIBRARY VISITS
5J 90-4/91
553,532
CIRCULATION TOTAL DIFFERENCE
5/91-4/92 CHANGE + OR -
684,193 +67,428 +11%
LIBRARY VISITS TOTAL DIFFERENCE
5/91-4/92 CHANGE + OR -
622,461 +68,929 +12%
INTERLIBRARY LOANS INTERLIBRARY LOANS TOTAL
5/90-4/91 5/91-4/92 CHANGE
1,309 1,366 + 57
RESERVE BOOKS RESERVE BOOKS TOTAL
5/90-4/91 5[91-4/92 CHANGE
3,556 5,928 + 2,372
DIFFERENCE
+ OR -
+04%
DIFFERENCE
+ OR -
+67%
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CIRCULATI~J
ADULT FIC710lJ
ADULT NC~t1FICTIDN
TOTAL
JWElI1LE
YOUlJG ADULT
AUDIO
VIDEOS
GRAND 70TAL
C~AIN/LOSS
SER~JICE REPORT * ROANOKE CDLPdTY PUBLIC LIBPARY APRIL 1992
SERVICES
LIBRARY PROGPAMS
Nei-LIB. PROGRAMS
OUTREACH
HEADQUARTERS BENT MTN VINTDN HOLLINS GLENVAR PLEASANT SY5T~1 TOTALS
1992 1991 1992 1941 1992 1491 1992 1991 1992 1991 1992 1991 1992 1991
8000 8182 281 305 3775 3903 48r'8 3844 2306 237$ 104 38 19344 18670
5740 4982 43 84 2100 1927 3477 4385 1137 1413 46 37 12599 12828
13796 13164 324 389 5875 5830 8355 8249 3443 3791 150 75 31943 31498
7639 7038 323 170 3429 3334 4380 4494 2101 2005 140 75 13012 17116
101 4 1 0 40 0 144 1 72 2 0 0 358 7
477 519 3 9 158 193 265 145 112 84 12 D 1027 9:;0
25'4 1830 0 D 1047 403 1895 1115 725 524 0 0 6241 3872
24587 22555 651 568 10549 9760 15039 14004 6453 6406 302 150 57581 53443
2032 83 789 1035 47 152 4138
195 287 43 0 67 362 371 266 348 287 24 0 1048 1202
bll 591 0 0 34b 2 143 93 209 354 0 0 1315 ID4D
5 5 0 0 1 D 6 3 13 33 0 0 25 41
INTERLIBRARY
FILMS 21 9 0 0 4 2 i3 13 $ 9 D 0 4b 33
BOOK5 BORROWED 93 31 D D 4 D 17 13 12 10 0 0 126 54
BDOKS LOANED 1 6 D 1 0 15 2 3 1 1 D 0 4 26
USER COLPIT 24238 25189 266 124 10877 4815 13403 13570 4718 4933 349 178 53851 4$809
NEW REGISTRATIONS 225 0 1 0 128 0 99 0 36 D 7 0 496
KEY RATID5
CIRC. PER CAPITA 10.113 9.2774 9.5152 8.3020 11.258 10.416 9.0723 $.4480 !0.765 10.687 .95093. 472317 9.1862 8.5260
%ADULT FICTION 32.537 36.275 43.164 53.697 35.785 39.989 32.435 27,592 35.735 37,121 34.437 25.333 33,594 34.934
%ADULT NONFICTION 2.573 22.088 6.6052 14.788 19.907 19.743 23.119 31.312 17,619 22.057 15.231 24.bbo 21.880 24.003
%JWENILE 31.069 31.203 49.615 29.929 32.505 34.159 29.124 32.090 32.558 31.298 46.357 50 31.281 32.026
HEADDUARTERS BENT MTN VINTON HOLLINS GLENVAR PLEASANT SYSTEM TOTAL
1992 1991 1992 1991 1992 1991 1992 1991 1992 1991 1942 1991 1992 1991
NORTH COUNTY/ HOLLINS
B1~:ANCH LIBI~:ARY
PROJECT
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SITE LOCATION
User convenience is the key factor to consider in selection of a
library site. User behavior patterns are of particular importance
in determining the optimal site. A new site should reinforce
current usage patterns, and should be attractive enough to
encourage new usage. The new site should also be chosen on the
basis of overcoming difficulties associated with the present
location. Since the present site of the Hollins Branch is very
successful, the most pressing matter seems to be to acquire a site
which addresses the issue of lot size and parking capacity. Easier
access to the site, compared to the current situation, might also
encourage higher use. Those features which appear to have
encourage the development of strong usage patterns should also be
retained - location near a dedicated residential user base, and
placement within a heavy flow of business, consumer, and commuter
traffic.
Recent library literature (Lushington and Kusack, 1991) suggests
that location is a primary determinant in establishing successful
library operations in a community. The following locational
criteria are fairly standard throughout the literature:
a) the site should be on a major road used by a majority of
citizens
b) it should be near a major shopping area that is open when
the library is open
c) safe traffic control is a crucial feature
d) the site should be convenient for the elderly, the
handicapped and all other special populations
The State Library provides a site evaluation questionnaire. These
are some of the questions listed:
1) Will the library site provide convenient access to
vehicular and pedestrian traffic?
2) Will there be adequate parking space on the site?
3) Does the site provide for future building expansion?
SITE LOCATION
Page 2
4) Is there visibility to potential users?
5) Is the site in a location between the residential area (s)
and business and shopping area(s)?
6) Is the site generally free from adjoining nuisances such
as a factory or business that might produce noxious
odors, emit distracting noise, or create an unpleasant
visual environment?
7) Is the site owned by the local governing body?
As these questions indicate, there are many factors to be
considered in selecting a site. The Library Board and the staff
are prepared to spend a great deal of time in carefully choosing
and recommending a site for acquisition. As a means of utilizing
objective information, we are requesting traffic zone flow and
demographic data to assist us in conducting this research. We also
realize that locational opportunities are limited within the
targeted area. The library staff, therefore, welcomes all
suggestions and all ideas related to site acquisition. We also
realize that the art of negotiation will play a crucial role in
final selection. Through a combination of critical evaluation of
factual information; mutual agreement on general assessments by a
range of parties; and the ability to capitalize on opportunities as
they arise, we hope to acquire an attractive, accessible,
convenient site for library users in the North County area.
SITE SIZE
Recent library literature and published guidelines do not appear to
offer specific guidance or standards on appropriate site size.
Most of the literature does mention suitability and inclusion of
sufficient room for expansion, but fails to define "suitability"
and "sufficiency".
Information gathered from recent and current building projects
around the state indicate that 4 acres or more is a common size for
buildings ranging from 8,000 to 15,000 square feet. One indicator,
worthy of consideration, is the size of the current Roanoke County
Headquarters lot. With a first floor square footage of 18,000
square feet and 85 parking spaces, the building is located on 2.52
acres. This is a' landlocked site, which suffers from extreme
utilization pressures on available space, as well as serious
limitations for expansion capability. A sketch outlining this
predicament is appended.
A library site should have enough room to accommodate the
following:
a) square footage for the building
b) parking space and traffic aisles
c) parking lot maneuverability space
d) fire lanes
e) loading space
f) adequate, safe means of entry and egress for
parking areas
g) appropriate parking boundaries and verges
h) safe walkways and paths for pedestrians and
nonmotorized traffic
i) appropriate setbacks and buffers
j) secure space for outdoor programming and activities
k) room for future growth of building and parking
1) allowance for functional design of building, rather
than forcing design priorities to revolve around
site size limitations
m) space for protected, screened HVAC support units,
easements, etc.
n) allowance for landscaping
The building consultant for the State Library feels that up to 5
acres for a 17,000 square foot building is not unreasonable or
excessive, and that it is actually "very prudent."
SITE SIZE
Page 2
Based on our general observations, the library staff feels that a
site of 4 to 5 acres is highly desirable, and that one of 3.25
represents the minimum possible size, although such a small lot
would carry high risks in relation to capacity.
Final site size will be heavily influenced by: 1) land and parcel
availability; 2) price/acre; and, 3) topographical features. The
convergence of interests represented in overall selection criteria,
when balanced against ideal site size, will also play a pivotal
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REVENUE DERIVED FROM CURRENT SITE
The CIP for a new North County Library does not include site
improvement or acquisition costs. This approach is based upon the
understanding that the current site and building would be offered
for sale or exchange at open market rates. Revenues from this sale
would be applied to the acquisition and preparation of a new site.
The current Hollins Branch site should be highly desirable as a
commercial property, and it is thought that such a land/building
package would bring a favorable, substantial price.
Given these conditions, it is hoped that such a transaction would
provide sufficient revenue to obtain and adequately prepare a new,
larger site, capable of meeting site selection criteria. The
amount of capital raised from this transaction, as well as the
timing of fund transfers, will play a crucial role in the success
of the building program for the North County/Hollins project.
Consideration must be given to the costs of obtaining a new site.
The site must necessarily be larger to accommodate increased
building square footage and attendant parking/traffic increases.
Since the site should be in the same general area, and needs to
provide similar or improved accessibility and convenience, the
acreage cost may be similar to acreage income derived from the
sale. Since acreage will need to be increased, a substantial
portion of derived income may be consumed by this requirement.
Remaining revenues will be needed to meet site improvement costs.
Site improvement includes costs such as drainage, grading,
landscaping, etc. We may also have legal and/or ethical
obligations to meet in the areas of archaeological and
environmental reviews and adjustments. Often, substantial portions
of parking lot preparation are assigned to this area of a building
project, such as external lighting, storm sewer installation,
curbing, etc. Some items pertaining to parking lot finishing
costs, or entire costs, may also be assigned to sitework budgets
(e.g., paving, striping, etc.), and be exclusively budgeted from
general construction costs.
We should be prepared for all income from the current site to be
needed to acquire and improve a new site. We should also be
concerned that income may not match all of the new site's cost
needs. Overage in this area could be applied against the project
budget as supplied by general obligation bonds, but this would
result in reduced building square footage. The only apparent
remedy to such a situation would be the availability of funds
application from a reserve source.
REVENUE
Page 2
Timing, in terms of activity and payment sequences and the
availability of funds for transfer, constitutes an area of concern.
The Hollins Branch should not be closed until the period reserved
for the transfer of operations to the new North County facility, if
at all possible. Premature closure would involve storage and
double moving costs. More importantly, a suspension of services
over an extensive period of time would seriously impair public
services and represent a potential threat to established community
usage patterns. To avoid these types of problems, it would be
necessary to establish a means of transferring funds, balancing
accounts, and extending and repaying funds, within a plan of
matching sales revenue to needed expenditures, and/or balancing
debited advances. There should also be some plans to meet the
contingency of sales proceeds failing to meet cost requirements
exclusive of bond generated funds. In the happiest of all possible
scenarios, sales revenues from the current site would exceed new
site acquisition and improvement costs, providing the entire
project with protection against cost overruns.
SIIGGESTED MODIFICATIONS FOR NORTH COUNTY BRANCH CIP
MAY 5, 1992
1) Cost per square foot for construction cost: Based on current
estimates of costs prevailing in the area, including recently
completed library projects and projects currently near
completion, the estimate of $71.00/sf appears to be
reasonable. It is, however, my impression that many
construction companies are currently bidding at a cash flow,
rather than a reasonable profit, level. If the commercial
construction industry follows current general trends, it may
soon show signs of a slow-paced recovery. We could expect
prices to rise in this type of environment as companies try to
restore or bolster profitability. It would also be reasonable
to expect some inflationary pressures to begin to show up in
construction materials, which would help push up overall
costs.
Given these considerations, it would appear to be prudent to
add an inflator to the current base of $71.00/sf. Otherwise,
we run the risk of having to sacrifice square footage to meet
increased costs due to inflation. Based on the assumption
that construction bids would go out within the twelve month
period following the bond vote (therefore giving us a roughly
18 month maximum timeframe), I would like to ask for a 3%
adjustment to the current base. This would protect us during
a period of low inflation, and if inflation rises rather
rapidly to a 5% or 6% level, we have still reduced the impact.
An adjustment of 3% brings the cost projection to $73.13/sf,
and adds $36,000.00 to the construction costs.
Proposed change: adjust $71.00/sf construction cost to $73.13/sf
to accommodate possible inflation; increases construction costs by
$36,000 to $1,243,000.
2) Contingency fund: A contingency fund provides a small pool of
resources to help cover unanticipated and difficult to predict
costs. If a contingency fund is not provided, any such costs
will have to be covered from other areas of the construction
budget or from some other budget area. Since these costs can
sometimes emerge unexpectedly late in the construction
process, it is often difficult to find the funds to cover
them. ~, contingency fund of 2% would be reasonable, and would
provide $31,000 worth of protection.
Proposed change: add a $31,000 contingency fund to the project
budget to protect against unanticipated costs.
3) Furnishings and equipment: The funds for furnishings and
equipment will probably be insufficient, even when combined
with use of currently owned furnishings and equipment, to
bring the building to capacity levels. The funding for this
area, however, should be adequate for providing enough support
for opening day operations and usage.
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SIIGGESTED MODIFICATIONS
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If this is the case, there will be a continuing need to add
the appropriate quantities and types of furnishings and
equipment at regular intervals to meet growing needs and to
realize the building's full potential. A primary
disadvantage to this approach is that prices will inevitably
increase, and with many items, such as shelving, it is often
difficult to match new units and components with older items.
Proposed change: The library is reluctant to suggest additional
funding for this area of the project budget, given needs and
problems in other areas; it is important to note, however, that
this level of funding is very low and cannot be used to provide
support if problems emerge in other portions of the project budget.
Any sutra funds, from any source and during any phase of the
project, that could be attached to this area would be very
beneficial.
4) Engineering and Design costs: These projected costs appear to
be appropriate and adequate, based on our consultations with
other departments, other libraries, and the State Library's
building consultant. In some areas, and in some cases, modest
square footage projects are drawing fee percentages at 12% and
above. This project should be large enough, and attract
sufficient competition, to keep fees at a reasonable level.
If necessary, the planning fees can be added into the
architectural services package. Special planning,
particularly in regard to interior design features and special
technical and mechanical specifications, is required to meet
the needs of special populations and the challenges of
emergent technologies. This planning may take the form of
added services provided by the architectural firm, or it may
be obtained from specially retained consultants.
Proposed change: No substantial
combine the planning funds with
construction fund increases to
increase by $4,000 to $124,000.
change; would like to be able to
the E ~ D funds if needed. If
$1,243,000, then E & D should
5) Parking: County planning regulations may require a greater
number of parking spaces than the number suggested by the
application of state standards. Instead of 65 parking spaces,
the new facility may need up to 85. Parking spaces are
somewhat expensive and these additional spaces could drive up
the site improvement and construction costs by as much as
$24,000.
Proposed change: Dependent upon decisions related to disposition
of current site, and assignment of revenues, $24,000 could be
covered in site improvement funds or added to bond issue.
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SIIGGESTED MODIFICATIONS
Page 3
6) Moving expense: The current facility houses a collection of
over 60,000 items, in addition to furnishings, computer
equipment, and shelving. The relocation of the collection and
these other items will require a great deal of hard physical
labor, proper planning, and adequate attention to detail.
The library staff should provide the planning and supervise
the attention to detail, but the strenuous physical labor
needed to move heavy boxes of books; breakdown and cart and
reassemble shelving; remove substantial furnishings; etc.,
should be obtained from another source. Professional movers
can supply the proper type of labor, equipment, and vehicles
for this type of task. Another county department may also be
able to supply the labor and support for this type of
operation, but they should be aware of the magnitude and the
costs of the project.
Proposed change: Consideration should be given to obtaining the
services of a professional mover to relocate the collection,
furnishings, and equipment from the present to the new building.
If not, we should negotiate the project internally, and agree upon
any attendant transfer of costs and/or funds between departments.
Professional movers would probably cost in excess of $10,000.
SIIMMARY OF PROPOSED COST ADJIISTMENTS
Construction inflation
Contingency fund
E & D adjustment
Subtotal
Possible moving expenses
Possible added parking
Subtotal
TOTAL
Project cost with subtotal one
Project cost with total
+ $36,000
+ $31,000
+ $ 4,000
+ $71, 000
+ $ 4,000 to $10,000
+ $24,000
t $28,000 to $34,000
+ $99,000 to $105,000
$1,598,000
$1,626,000 to $1,632,000
NORTH COUNTY\HOLLINS BUILDING PROGRAM
AND SPACE PLANNING GUIDE
The library staff and Board have decided to follow the widely
practiced procedure of creating a building project program and
space planning guide. This type of document is used to produce an
orderly, planned, and analytical approach for the definition of
functional areas, the allocation of space and furnishings, and the
early definition of problems and special concerns. A standard form
is used to collect and present information for each area.
Typically, the forms and their contents are revised several times.
In addition, a summary statement of general concerns and concepts
is also developed. These materials are revised and updated until
an architect is retained. The architect will use the program
developed by the library as a basis for a design program statement
and as a reference point for initial dialogue with his clients.
Although this process involves a great deal of effort, it offers a
number of benefits. It requires disciplined planning, and helps
establish clear objectives and priorities. Also, while it imposes
order, it retains, and even encourages, a great deal of
flexibility. The planning process also guarantees a clear,
documented record of the library's position on numerous building
details, and provides the architect with accessible, authoritative
general guidance.
The following pages contain samples related to our program process.
Included: the beginnings of a conceptual summary; a blank
workform; and, draft workforms for some sample areas.
.......
NORTH COUNTY/HOLLINS PROJECT
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
CONCEPTUAL SUMMARY
1) The building's design should be eminently functional, as
defined by library functions rather than general office or
other functions.
2) The architectural style and external detail should reflect the
idea that this a public - indeed, The Public's - building. It
is not intended to be monumental, overwhelming, or
pretentious. It should be attractive, inviting, and involve
low maintenance. The style should reflect that the community
is progressive, yet has an attachment to the traditional. The
general design and decorative effects should convey the
impression that this is a frugal, yet not austere, community.
3) Interior space design should respond to the functional
requirements of libraries and the building program. Fixed
work areas and stations should be ergonomically designed and
promote productivity.
4) Areas should flow together smoothly, in terms of traffic flow
and accessibility; and, design should preserve
sightline/visual control of key areas for staff.
5) The circulation desk must be situated as a visual command and
control center, as it will be the only constantly manned
worksite in the building.
6) Lighting specs, in addition to meeting standard and preferred
candlefootage, must include placement coordinated with stack
aisle locations based on ADA width requirements; deviation
cannot allow for more than 5% displacement in aisle extension,
and 0% contraction.
7) Electrical outlets, as well as joint electrical/cable conduits
must be located for maximum flexibility throughout the
building.
8) HVAC requirements must take into account the effects on air
flow and distribution created by 70" high stacks.
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For Discussion Ong
Subject to Revision
PROJECT: HOLLINS/NORTH COUNTY BRANCH
NAME OF AREA
OCCIIPANCY: Public Norm [] Public Max []
Staff Norm [] Staff Max []
FUNCTION OF AREA:
ARCHITECTURAL AND MECHANICAL CONSIDERATIONS:
and sightline/lighting]
SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS:
Adjacent:
Near:
SIGNAGE:
SQUARE FEET
Seats [)
Seats []
[Include acoustical
FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
Existing:
Needed:
DRAFT
For ®iscussion Oniy
~~~ ~waision
PROJECT: HOLLINS/NORTH COUNTY BRANCH
NAME OF AREA SQUARE FEET
Children's Readin Area 480
OCCIIPANCY: Public Norm [32] Public Max [66] Seats [54]
Staff Norm [] Staff Max [] Seats [)
FUNCTION OF AREA: Table and chair seating; Lounge seating
ARCHITECTURAI, AND MECHANICAL CONSIDERATIONS: [Include acoustical
and sightline/lighting]
Uniform, glare-free lighting; bright and cheerful colors; special
wall display surfaces; natural light; view to outside
SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS:
Adjacent: Children's stack area; Toilets
Near: Workroom
SIGNAGE: New book; directional signs
FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
Existing: 3 - 36" round
tables; 12 chairs
Needed: 8 - 36" round
tables; 32 chairs; 12 - soft
children's lounge chairs; 4 -
child-sized study carrels and
4 chairs; 2 - adult lounge
chairs; end tables; display
units; 3 PAC terminals
For ®iscussion Onfy
Subject to Revision
PROJECT: HOLLINS/NORTH COUNTY BRANCH
NAME OF AREA SQUARE FEET
Public Collection 2,000
OCCIIPANCY: Public Norm [] Public Max [] Seats []
Staff Norm [] -Staff Max [] Seats []
FIINCTION OF AREA: House fiction; non-fiction; new books; special
displays
ARCHITECTIIRAL AND MECHANICAL CONSIDERATIONS: [Include acoustical
and sightline/lighting]
Uniform, glare-free lighting; 3-4 feet between stacks; visibility
from Circulation Desk.
SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS:
Adjacent: Seating area; Periodicals; Reference
Near: Main circulation desk
SIGNAGE: Section signs; directional signs
FIIRNITIIRE AND EQIIIPMENT
Existing: - 12" x 3'-0" x
7'-0" metal shelves; 12" x
2.7'-0" wooden shelves;
Needed: 180 - 12" x 30" x
7'0" adjustable metal shelves
with end panels; angled bottom
shelf and pullout ledges;
illuminated [display] shelving
at New Books Area with "Face-
up" display capability; 2 PAC
terminals.
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For Discussion Only
Subject to Revision
PROJECT: HOLLINS/NORTH COUNTY BRANCH
NAME OF AREA SQUARE FEET
Custodial Closet 60
OCCUPANCY: Public Norm [] Public Max [] Seats []
Staff Norm [1] Staff Max [1] Seats []
FUNCTION OF AREA: Custodial storage and work space
ARCHITECTURAL AND MECHANICAL CONSIDERATIONS: [Include acoustical
and sightline/lighting]
Mop sink; large compartment sink; floor drain; ventilation; sealed
concrete floor; the floor option
SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS:
Adjacent: Staff toilets
Near:
SIGNAGE:
Mechanical; Electrical
Door sign
FIIRNITURE Al
Existing: Deep sink; floor
drain; wall pegs
~D EQIIIPMENT
Needed: Open deep metal
shelving; mop/broom hooks;
work surface; stool; tackboard
DRAFT
Fir Ois~~ssi0n Oniy
Subject t® F~evisi~n
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P.O. BOX 29800
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA 24018-0798
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
EL.MER C. HODGE
(703) 772-2004
May 13, 1992
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
LEE B. EDDY. CHAIRMAN
wINOSOR HttJS MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
EDWARD G. KOHINKE. SR.. VICE-CHAIRMAN
CATAWBA MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
BOB L JOHNSON
HOW NS MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
H. ODELL "FUZZY MIN NIX
CAVE SPRING MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
HARRY C. NICKENS
VINTON MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
(703) 772-2005
Mr. John P. Wheeler
Hollins College Corporation
7916 Williamson Road, NW
Roanoke, VA 24020
Dear Mr. Wheeler:
Attached is a copy of Action Number 51292-7.c which approves your
application for a fireworks permit for May 23, 1992, contingent
upon following the safety plans as outlined in the application.
This action was unanimously adopted by the Board of Supervisors at
their meeting on Tuesday, May 12, 1992.
Your application has been reviewed by the Fire Marshal and he
recommends approval of the permit.
For your information, due to changes in the Fire Prevention Code,
future fireworks display permits will be approved and issued by the
Fire Marshal. Approval by the Board of Supervisors will not be
necessary.
If you need additional information, please do not hesitate to
contact me.
Sincerely,
Mary H. Allen, Clerk
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
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Attachment
cc: Fire Marshal
Police Chief
Don Gillispie, Roanoke County
John Cease
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P.O. BOX 29800
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA 24018-0798
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
ELMER C. HODGE
(703) 772-2004
March 11, 1992
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
LEE B. EDDY, CHAIRMAN
WINDSOR HILLS MAGISTERAL DISTRICT
EDWARD G. KOHINKE, SR., VICE-CHAIRMAN
CATAWBA MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
BOB L. JOHNSON
HOWNS MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
H. ODELL "FUZZY" MIN NIX
CAVE SPRING MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
HARRY C. NICKENS
VINTON MAGISTERIAL pISTRICT
(703) 772-2005
Mrs. Elizabeth W. Stokes
5421 Sweetfern Drive,
Roanoke, VA 24019
Dear Mrs. Stokes:
The members of the Board of Supervisors wish to express their
sincere appreciation for your previous services to the Total Action
Against Poverty Board of Directors.
I am pleased to inform you that, at their meeting held on Tuesday,
May 12, 1992, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to
designate you as Supervisor Bob L. Johnson's appointee to the Total
Action Against Poverty Board of Directors for another two-year
term. This term will begin May 5, 1992 and expires May 5, 1994.
State law provides that any person elected, re-elected, appointed,
or re-appointed to any public body be furnished a copy of the
Freedom of Information Act. Your copy is enclosed. We are also
sending you a copy of the Conflict of Interest Act.
On behalf of the Supervisors and the citizens of Roanoke County,
please accept our sincere thanks and appreciation for your
willingness to accept this appointment.
Very truly yours,
Lee B. Eddy, Chairma
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
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Enclosures
cc: Supervisor Bob L. Johnson
Theodore J. Edlich, III, Executive Director of TAP
Forest G. Jones, Clerk, Salem City Council
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P.O. BOX 29800
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA 24018-0798
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
ELMER C. HODGE
(703) 772-2004
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
LEE B. EDDY, CHAIRMAN
WINDSOR MILLS MIAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
EDWARD G. KOHINKE. SR., VICE-CHAIRMAN
CATAWBA MAGISTERAAI-DISTRICT
BOB L JOHNSON
MOWNS I.Y~GISTERIAL DISTRICT
H. ODELL'FUZZ1r' MINNIX
May 13, 1992 ~vE SPRINCs MAGISrERUL asTRICr
HARRY C. NICKENS
VINTON MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
(703) 772-2005
Rev. Steven W. Harris
Baptist Children's Home
Salem, VA 24153
Dear Reverend Harris:
On behalf of the Board of Supervisors, 1 would like to thank you for offering the
invocation at our meeting on Tuesday, May 12, 1992.
We believe it is most important to ask for divine guidance at these meetings and the
Board is very grateful for your contribution.
Thank you again for sharing your time and your words with us.
Sincerely,
Lee B. Eddy, Chairman
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
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Convention is to provide an opportunity for business, industry, and government
representatives to interview l graduating seniors with markefabfe skills and a
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GOVERNMENT FINANCE Y
OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
180 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 800, Chicago, Illinois 60601
312/977-9700 • Fax: 312/977-4806
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Mr. Elmer C. Hodge
County Administrator
County of Roanoke
P.O. Box 29800
Roanoke, Virginia 24018-0798
Dear Mr. Hodge:
I am pleased to notify you that the County of Roanoke has received
the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government
Finance Officers Association (GFOA). This award is the highest
form of recognition in governmental budgeting and represents a
significant achievement by your organization.
Your government's plaque will be shipped under separate cover to
Ms. Reta Robinson Busher, who originally submitted the budget for
consideration. We hope you will arrange for a formal public
presentation of the award, and that appropriate publicity will be
given to this notable achievement. A press release is enclosed
for your use.
We appreciate your participation in GFOA's budget awards program.
Through your example, we hope that other governments will be
encouraged to achieve excellence in budgeting.
Sincerely,
Jeffr°ey L~ . Esser
Executive Director
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Enclosure
WASHINGTON OFFICE
1750 K Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20006
202/466-2750 • Fax: 202/429-2755
GOVERNMENT FINANCE
OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
180 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 800, Chicago, Illinois 60601
312/977-9700 • Fax: 312/977-4806
March 9, 1992
P R E S S R E L E A S E
For Further Information Contact
RELEASE IMMEDIATELY Dennis Strachota (312) 977-9700
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CHICAGO--The Government Finance Officers Association of the United
States and Canada (GFOA) is pleased to announce that the County of
Roanoke, Virginia has received GFOA'S Distinguished Budget
Presentation Award for its budget. This award is the highest form
of recognition in governmental budgeting. Its attainment
represents a significant accomplishment by the management and
elected officials of the County of Roanoke, Virginia. To receive
the award, governments submit their budget document for review by
a panel of independent budget experts. Using extensive criteria,
the reviewers evaluate the effectiveness of the budget as:
o A policy document
o A financial plan
o An operations guide
o A communication device
Award-winning documents must be rated 'proficient' in all four
categories.
Since 1984, over 500 governmental entities have received the
Distinguished Budget Presentation Award nationwide. Winning
entries represented truly pioneering efforts to improve the
quality of budgeting and provide excellent examples for other
governments throughout North America.
The Government Finance Officers Association is a nonprofit
professional association serving 9,500 government finance
professionals throughout North America. Over 11,000 governments
participate actively in the association's activities. The
association produces a variety of technical publications in
various fields of governmental finance, and represents the public
finance community in Washington, D.C. The association provides
numerous training opportunities, and conducts an annual conference
attended by over 3,000 public finance professionals.
WASHINGTON OFFICE
1750 K Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20006
202/466-2750 • Fax: 202/429-2755
ROANOKE
VALLEY
PRESERVATION
FOUNDATION
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15 April 1992
Ms. Brenda Holton
Roanoke County
P.O. Box 298UU
Roanoke, Virginia 24U18
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National Preservation Week will be celebrated across
the country May 1U-16. The Roanoke Valley Preservation
Foundation, Roanoke Regional Preservation Office and
local historical societies are looking forward to the
festivities in our community.
t)FFICF.RS
]ollN n. Fl'I:PON This year's theme is "Preservation brings history to
`''~`~""'~~~' lifei" and certainly Roanoke County has great
c",vItLl:Sl~.sl."v,:';"""'' significance to recog nize. There are a wealth of
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and care.
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Ia~:asc~,:,:I: archaeological sites and rich historic landscapes.
Preservation Week helps the community to become more
aware and appreciative of these resources.
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On behalf of the Roanoke Valley Freservation
Foundation, I am writing to request a proclamation by
Roanoke County for National Preservation Week and have
enclosed a sample. We also request the opportunity to
appear on Roanoke County Board of Supervisors' agenda
for the May 12, 1992 meeting at 3:UU p.m. Mr. John
Fulton, President of the Roanoke Valley Preservation
Foundation will be accompanied by Dr. John Kern,
Director of the Department of Historic Resources
Roanoke Regional Preservation Office and Dr. Deedie
Kagey, local historian and author. They would like to
briefly address the Board with comments on Preservation
Week and preservation work in the community.
Thank you for your assistance. If you should need to
telephone me, my number is 342-9289.
Sincerely,
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Acting Director
Enclosure
cc: Mr. John Fulton
Dr. John R. Kern
Dr. Deedie Kagey
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SAMPLE PROCLAMA`TIUN
WHEREAS: Historic Preservation gives Americans an authentic
experience of their diverse heritage and provides direction for
future generations.
WHEREAS: Historic Preservation enhances the livability of
cities, towns and rural areas across America.
WHEREAS: Preservation Week 1992 provides an opportunity for
citizens of all ages and all cultures to maintain, preserve and
protect America's heritage.
WHEREAS: "Preservation Brings History to Life" is the theme for
Preservation Week 1992, cosponsored by the Roanoke Valley
Preservation Foundation, Roanoke Regional Preservation Office,
other local preservation organizations in the Roanoke Valley, and
the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Now, therefore, I, Lee Eddy, Chairman of the Roanoke County
Board of Supervisors, Roanoke, Virginia, do hereby proclaim May
10-16, 1992, as
NATIONAL PRESERVATION WEEK
and call upon our citizens to recognize and participate in this
special observance.
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15 April 1992
Ms. Brenda Holton
Roanoke County
P.0. Box 29800
Roanoke, Virginia 24018
Dear Ms. Holton,
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National Preservation Week will be celebrated across
the country May 10-16. The Roanoke Valley Preservation
Foundation, Roanoke Regional Preservation Office and
local historical societies are looking forward to the
festivities in our community.
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'""` ~~ ~~'''T~" This year's theme is "Preservation brings history to
`~''°`I"`:'~-~ life i " and certainly Roanoke County has great
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significance to recognize. There are a wealth of
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;I:CR LT.IRY and care. We not only have a variety of historic
HELEN K~>FSER~,~S-HILL structures, we also have prehistoric and historic
r~:ra.,.,;r.a archaeological sites and rich historic landscapes.
Preservation Week helps the community to become more
aware and appreciative of these resources.
rrcrsrr"es On behalf of the Roanoke Valley Preservation
~,n~:~L~f:~. B. B;~kitEa Foundation, I am writing to request a proclamation by
c.{,akLE~:~. BLANRENSii[P Roanoke County for National Preservation Week and have
I). xEN~E c11RIS~tAN enclosed a sample. We also request the opportunity to
~i.a~:~~ERTct~TEER appear on Roanoke County Board of Supervisors' agenda
""BEN,>Y ~ FEB.""`~~~~ for the Ma 12 1992 meetin at 3.00 m. Mr. John
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rSI,ITYF~R:~Nl;~SFKI:EUAN Foundation will be accompanied by Dr. John Kern,
~i"'~"`~ c"`'~~-H,~LE Director of the Department of Historic Resources
~l. L. HOLLAND. Se.
DEED/EIG~cEY Roanoke Regional Preservation Office and Dr. Deedie
Geoere~~.KECLEY Kagey, local historian and author. They would like to
1,~NE: BEH~,ESti KELLY briefly address the Board with comments on Preservation
~t;~kti B"~' L`'Y"`'N Week and preservation work in the community .
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J,~miES E. LoeseL
1~>Et~H n. Loc,~N, IH Thank you for your assistance . If you should need to
LtN s. ~IELCHIONN.a telephone me, my number is 342-9289.
NORWOOD G. ~'IIDULE'IY)N
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Ji~YCC ~V. ~~.~ucri
CLAKE S. ~i'tirrs ~
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BAYES E. WILSON
LEE W. 1,VINBORNE ar ha B. BoXley,
Acting Director
Enclosure
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Dr. John R. Kern
Dr. Deedie Kagey
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PRESERVATION
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SAMPLE PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS: Historic Preservation gives Americans an authentic
experience of their diverse heritage and provides direction for
future generations.
WHEREAS: Historic Preservation enhances the livability of
cities, towns and rural areas across America.
WHEREAS: Preservation Week 1992 provides an opportunity for
citizens of all ages and all cultures to maintain, preserve and
protect America's heritage.
WHEREAS: "Preservation Brings History to Life" is the theme for
Preservation Week 1992, cosponsored by the Roanoke Valley
Preservation Foundation, Roanoke Regional Preservation Office,
other local preservation organizations in the Roanoke Valley, and
the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Now, therefore, I, Lee Eddy, Chairman of the Roanoke County
Board of Supervisors, Roanoke, Virginia, do hereby proclaim May
10-16, 1992, as
NATIONAL FRESERVATION WEEK
and call upon our citizens to recognize and participate in this
special observance.
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BOB L. JOHNSON
HOWNS MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
H. ODELL "FUZZY" MINNIX
CAVE SPRING MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
HARRY C. NICKENS
VINTON MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
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March 12, 1992
Mr. Hal Cantrill, President
Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club
208 Eagle Drive
Salem, VA 24153
Dear Hal:
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
LEE B. EDDY, CHAIRMAN
WINDSOR HILLS MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
EDWARD G. KOHINKE, SR., VICE-CHAIRMAN
CATAWBA MAGISTERAL DISTRICT
BOB L. JOHNSON
HOWNS MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
H. ODELL'FUZZY" MINNIX
CAVE SPRING MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
HARRY C. NICKENS
VINTON MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT
(703) 772-2005
I would like to take this opportunity to officially congratulate
you on your election to president of the RATC.
All of the A.T. in Roanoke County passes through my district. This
section of the Trail also features two of the major highlights of
the entire 2,100 mile trail: Dragon's Tooth, and McAfee's Knob.
As a fellow member and long-time trail maintainer, I stand ready
to help you in any way possible if you ever need assistance or
cooperation from Roanoke County for anything that will promote
hiking, and promote the care and preservation of this treasure.
Also, I am sending copies of this letter to the Chairman and the
County Administrator in the hopes that we can come up with a
suitable form of re oc~i~,on in the near future for the RATC in
commemoration of it~ 60th~nniversary this year.
Good luck, and enjoy your term as p~iesident!
Sincerel ~''~
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Edward G. Kohinke, Sr., Vice-Chairman
Roanoke County Board of Supervisors
Catawba Magisterial District
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Elmer Hodge, County Administrator
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4/10/92
Message for Mary Allen and Brenda
from Ed Kohinke
I am going to start something new. Starting with Tuesday, I want
to hold office hours there at the Roanoke County Administration
Center, probably back there in the Supervisor's Office or in the
Board Room, whichever isn't occupied. This Tuesday, I am going to
be there at 1 p.m. and I will just see whoever is there from 1
until 3 when the Board Meeting starts. I may try that in the
future but I am just going to try it Tuesday anyway. If anyone
calls and says they want to see me for anything or would like to
talk with me, you can give them that option.
The other thing that I want to ask about. Did anybody ever get in
^~ touch with Hal Cantrell with the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club.
Are we going to do anything for them in the near future?
Thank you.
For your information: Elmer Hodge/Mary Hicks/Melinda Rector
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