This view shows an overlay of an 1891 map on our contemporary landscape. Compare this image to the previous historic photograph. In the Google image you can see the Burrell site in the lower right hand corner near the Google logo. What other common locations can you identify?
This is an example of the kind of study required that can yield observations over the city's growth. I noticed that the streets that I could see appeared to be dirt. And this view is quite barren of trees.
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Well, I am having trouble activating the pictures, but, I would agree the the Burrell site is a view looking North from what is now Burrell Memorial Hospital off Orange avenue.
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ReplyDeleteI would expect that much of early Roanoke photos like this would be treeless. After all, it was agricultural and trees were a problem, not a help.
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