Virginia Room Digital Collection

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The Virginia Room Digital Collection includes photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets and finding aids to items in the Virginia Room. Continue to check back for new additions.

Located in Downtown Roanoke, the Virginia Room holds the public library's non-circulating historical and genealogical research resources.  We are commited to collecting, preserving, interpreting and making available materials related to the Roanoke Valley, the Commonwealth of Virginia and to a lesser degree, materials of states closely tied to Virginia and its people by birth, immigration, migration or by boundary divisions.  We are dedicated to connecting people with the information they seek.

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RVNH5039

RVNH5039 Lakeside.jpg

Lakeside Amusement Park. The Wildcat roller coaster was replaced by the Shooting Star in 1968.

RVNH5038

RVNH5038 Colony House.jpg

The Colony House Motor Lodge is located at 3560 Franklin Road.

RVNH5037

RVNH5037 Starkey Speedway.jpg

The Roanoke Drag Strip at Starkey Speedway. The dragstrip opened in June 1958

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