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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 395 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city in (but administratively See also:independent of) Roanoke See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the Roanoke See also:river, about 55 M. W.S.W. of See also:Lynchburg. Pop. (189o) 16,159; (1900) 21,495, of whom 5834 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 34,874. Roanoke is served by the Virginian railway, by the See also:main See also:line and the See also:Shenandoah and the Winston-See also:Salem divisions of the See also:Norfolk & Western railway, and by electric railway to See also:Vinton and to Salem. The city is about goo ft. above See also:sea-level and is surrounded by high hills; its picturesque situation and its nearness to famous See also:mineral springs make it a See also:health resort. On a See also:mountain slope, about z m. from the city limits, is the Virginia See also:College for See also:Young Ladies; 7 M. See also:north of the city, at what was formerly called Botetourt Springs (there is a See also:sulphur See also:spring), is Hollins See also:Institute (1842) for girls; and in the city are the See also:National Business College, the City See also:Hospital (1899), private hospitals, and St See also:Vincent's See also:Orphan See also:Asylum (1893) for boys, under the Sisters of Charity. Stock-raising, See also:tobacco-growing, and See also:coal and See also:iron-See also:mining are the See also:industries of the See also:district. Roanoke's factory product in 1905 was valued at $5,544,907 (2'7% more than in 1900). Its railway See also:car repair and construction shops, belonging to the Norfolk & Western railway, employed in that See also:year 66.9% of the See also:total number of factory wage-earners; See also:pig-iron, structural iron, canned goods, bottles, tobacco, planing-See also:mill products and See also:cotton are among the manufactures. The municipal See also:water See also:supply comes from a See also:reservoir at Crystal Springs at the See also:foot of Mill Mountain near the city limits. Roanoke was the See also:town of Big Lick (founded about 1852; incorporated in 1874; pop. in 188o, 669) until 1882, when it received its See also:present name; in 1884 it was chartered as a city.

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