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Established. Early 1800s. Abandoned. c. 1940s. Named for. William Carvin. Elevation. 1,168 ft (356 m) Carvins Cove was a community in both Botetourt and Roanoke County, Virginia, United States, that was abandoned and subsequently inundated in order to create the Carvins Cove Reservoir by the City of Roanoke in the mid–1940s.
Carvins Cove Natural Reserve. / 37.38659°N 79.949752°W / 37.38659; -79.949752. Carvins Cove Natural Reserve is a 12,700-acre (51 km 2) city park in Botetourt and Roanoke counties, Virginia. Managed by the Western Virginia Water Authority and the City of Roanoke, it is the fifth-largest city park in the United States, and the second ...
Added to NRHP. May 23, 1980. Designated VLR. December 28, 1979 [2] The Crystal Spring Steam Pumping Station is a historic pumping station located at Roanoke, Virginia, in the United States. It was built in 1905, and is a one-story building constructed in common-bond brick. The building houses a Corliss-type pump made by the Snow Steam Pump ...
Roanoke is an unincorporated community in southern Lewis County, West Virginia, United States. Most of the original town is located under 60 feet (18 m) of Stonewall Jackson Lake 's water. A display at the Stonewall Resort State Park 's lodge tells the story of the flood-plagued town that was purchased in the 1980s by the United States Army ...
Roanoke ( / ˈroʊ.əˌnoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanoke is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of the Virginia– North Carolina border and 250 miles ...
GNIS feature ID. 1493720 [3] Website. https://townoftroutville-va.gov/. Troutville is a town in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. The population was 458 at the 2020 census. The town is located along the U.S. Route 11 between Cloverdale and Buchanan. It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Spring Hollow Reservoir. / 37.226429; -80.174832. Spring Hollow Reservoir is a 158-acre (0.64 km 2 ), 3.3-billion-US-gallon (12,000,000 m 3) side-stream reservoir in Roanoke County, Virginia with the largest roller-compacted concrete dam east of the Mississippi [1] Having commenced operation in 1996, it is now the main source of water for ...
Norfolk and Western 1218 is a preserved four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive, built in June 1943 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives. It was retired from regular revenue service in July 1959, and was later restored ...