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History · Cloverdale

Cloverdale’s history is
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The public archives hold no old photos of Cloverdale. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story

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Cloverdale began as an Iron Furnace Plantation consisting of an iron furnace and forests for lumber to produce charcoal. Robert Stoner, Botetrout County Historian states that Robert Harvey began to develop this area as a furnace as early as 1787.

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Cloverdale, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Cloverdale is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cloverdale has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Black Horse Tavern-Bellvue Hotel and Office in Roanoke, 1 miles away.

Cloverdale and the nearest listed places

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Black Horse Tavern-Bellvue Hotel and OfficeOld TombstoneHollins College QuadrangleMontereyHarshbarger HouseMount Moriah Baptist Church And Cemetery

Closest to Cloverdale

Black Horse Tavern-Bellvue Hotel and OfficeRoanoke · Greek Revival1miOld TombstoneHollins · Object2.5miHollins College QuadrangleHollins · Greek Revival · Built 18422.5miMontereyRoanoke · Greek Revival2.9miHarshbarger HouseHollins · Building2.9mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Black Horse Tavern-Bellvue Hotel and Office’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Cloverdale?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Cloverdale’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Troutville📜 Vinton📜 Roanoke📜 Salem

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