Botetourt County/Roanoke County

Botetourt County/Roanoke County is a Virginia historical marker in Roanoke, Botetourt County, dedicated 1940.

8201 Williamson Road, Roanoke

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Botetourt County Formed in 1769 from Augusta, and named for Lord Botetourt, Governor of Virginia 1768-70. Buchanan was the western terminus of the noted James River and Kanawha Canal. Roanoke County Formed in 1838 from Botetourt and Montgomery, and probably named for the Roanoke River. General Andrew Lewis lived here. The city of Roanoke is known as the Magic City of the South

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

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1776 · Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique Angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possédent sur… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1794 · Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1807 · Map Of Virginia (lower center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1819 · Ohio & Indiana (H. S. Tanner, 1819) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Bedford, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, 1794, covering the location of Botetourt County/Roanoke County, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, 1794, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Botetourt County/Roanoke County

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