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 | History of Roanoke County |  |
The Roanoke Machine Works and Norfolk & Western
Railway Offices
The first great industry established in the city of
Roanoke was the Roanoke Machine Works in 1882
with a capital of $5,000,000.
This is one of the largest car and locomotive manufacturing
plants in the South and gives employment to
two thousand five hundred men.
When the shops were first established they gave
employment to nearly a thousand men, most of who