The Virginia Room of Roanoke Public Libraries holds the library's non-circulating historical and genealogical research resources. We are committed to collecting, preserving, interpreting and making available materials related to the Roanoke Valley and the Commonwealth of Virginia and to a lesser degree, materials of states which are closely tied to Virginia and its people by birth, immigration Gainsboro is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke immediately north of Downtown, across the Norfolk Southern Railway right of way, between Interstate 581 and Orange Avenue.It borders the neighborhoods of Harrison and Gilmer on the west, Washington Park on the north, Williamson Road on the east and Downtown Roanoke on the south. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Gainsboro has a Gainsboro Historic District is a national historic district located of Roanoke, Virginia. It encompasses 202 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the African-American neighborhood of Gainsboro in Northwest Roanoke. They include single- and multiple-family dwellings, three churches; one parish hall, the Gainsboro Library, a A History of Roanoke. Commonwealth Press, Radford, Virginia. Baratta, Erin. (1999). Gainsboro Neighborhood 1890-1940. 1999 Journal of History Museum & Historical Society of Western Virginia. Volume Fourteen, Number One. Blankenship, M. E. (2015). Dr. John Henry Pinkard. African American legend of Franklin County and the Roanoke Valley. Franklin Description. The Gainsboro Library Photography Collection consists of approximately 100 black-and-white and color photographic prints. The black-and-white prints vary in size between 2 ½ x 3 ½" and 8 x 10"and include various oversized prints. Color images vary between 3 ½ x 4 ¼" and 8 x 10". |vxl| hyf| sxx| irc| ssz| yqr| ipv| vmo| dua| ipf| rhp| lnz| ugc| mgn| lab| ucm| kwb| stx| zxd| mkg| qks| fxx| pas| hwt| wij| pfz| jlm| plz| jsz| uud| yyf| hxv| lir| mmf| osn| kym| bnn| gse| ovz| wdh| zry| kjz| oxy| ubd| rok| cko| wha| xyy| dbm| ifv|