Roanoke, Virginia: Misc

the Virginian Railway Passenger Station in Roanoke was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire?
the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31, 1948?
the Roanoke Apartments, which opened as Roanoke's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?
the Fire Station No. 1 in Roanoke, Virginia was modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall?
The Coffee Pot historic roadhouse (pictured) in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, features a 15-foot (4.6 m) stucco coffee pot atop its roof?
Roanoke, Virginia, television station WROV-TV was the first UHF station in the United States to shut down?

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Roanoke is a city of about 92,000 people in central Virginia, United States. It has a metro population of about 230,000.

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