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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SSH_the-hotel-historical_Blacksburg-VA.html
Here remain just a few bricks and concrete that made the foundations of the hotel. This hotel was a large two-story boardinghouse for unmarried miners, new employees and visitors to the mines. The hotel also featured a single-story porch across th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SSG_the-commissary-historical_Blacksburg-VA.html
The Commissary building was located here and served the community for their groceries as well as everyday household supplies. These concrete piers once supported the loading platform and post office that were in this building. The Commissary was a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SSF_hoist-foundation-historical_Blacksburg-VA.html
Here was the first foundation that pulled the coal cars from the mine. This foundation held the hoist that worked in sequence with a series of hoists to move the coal. The foundations are still here to this day because of the force that was put on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SSE_coal-car-historical_Blacksburg-VA.html
This coal car was one of many that were hoisted in and out of the mine. These cars were pulled by a hoist system. The cars were built with a low profile so that they could fit deep in the mine to be loaded without having to move the coal to the ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SSD_the-tipple-historical_Blacksburg-VA.html
Here was the center of the entire Merrimac community: the Tipple was the largest and most prominent building here. Reaching 100 feet high, the Tipple was the loading station for the train, the Huckleberry. The Huckleberry would run directly throug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SSC_coal-car-hoist-historical_Blacksburg-VA.html
The coal car hoist was the force that pulled the cars out of the mine. Each hoist used a large winch-like structure that was originally powered by steam. The picture you see below is of two miners being pulled out of the mine by the hoist system.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SSB_the-armory-historical_Blacksburg-VA.html
Built as a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, the Armory is located on the former Blacksburg Public School Campus, where the local elementary and high schools originally stood. This building served as a National Guard armory and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LD6_william-ballard-preston_Blacksburg-VA.html
This is Smithfield, the birthplace of William Ballard Preston (1805-1862). On April 16, 1861, in the Virginia Convention, he reluctantly introduced the formal resolution to secede from the Union. Preston served in the Virginia House of Delegate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LD5_the-cellar-building_Blacksburg-VA.html
Nick Kappas emigrated from Greece in 1913 and located in Roanoke. After the VPI vs. VMI annual football game in Roanoke, VPI cadets who frequented a restaurant where Kappas worked, persuaded him to move to Blacksburg to open his own business. He s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LD3_eastern-continental-divide-1763-proclamation_Blacksburg-VA.html
Main Street, near here, crosses a barely perceptible ridge line. This line divides water flowing east to the Atlantic Ocean, via the Roanoke River basin, from water flowing west to the Gulf of Mexico, via the New, Ohio, and Mississippi…
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