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A History of Back Creek: Bent Mountain, Poages Mill, Cave Spring and Starkey
Contributor(s): Harris, Nelson (Author)
ISBN: 1625859708     ISBN-13: 9781625859709
Publisher: History Press
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials)
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical
LCCN: 2017955904
Series: Brief History
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - South Atlantic
 
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Publisher Description:

Since Europeans first settled along the banks of Back Creek in the 1740s, southwest Roanoke County's history has been as fluid as the creek itself. Local historian Nelson Harris details the eclectic history of the area.


The once dense forest with log cabins gave way to the sprawling suburbs of the present. The colonial-era Trader's Path that directed Scots-Irish homesteaders, the growth of the apple industry in Bent Mountain after the Civil War, a state highway built by convicts during the Depression and Cave Spring becoming a modern commercial center have shaped the region. The changing picture of daily life in Back Creek spanning two centuries emerges in stories of one-room schoolhouses, doctors on horseback, country stores, local baseball and NASCAR races at Starkey.

Contributor Bio(s): Harris, Nelson: - Local historian Nelson Harris is a native and former mayor of Roanoke. He has been the pastor of Heights Community Church since 1999 and is an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Western Community College. He holds degrees from Radford University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a past president of the Historical Society of Western Virginia. He is the author of twelve books, including Downtown Roanoke, Roanoke Valley: Then and Now, Aviation in Roanoke and Hidden History of Roanoke.