Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 12, 1994 TAG: 9405120169
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By SANDRA BROWN KELLY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
She is scheduled to step out at 1:30 p.m. with Roanoke Mayor David Bowers, a Democrat, and Republican Del. Morgan Griffith of Salem.
They will start in the 100 block of Market Street, where the Roanoke Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau is housed in the neoclassical Marketplace Center building constructed in 1909. From there, they will traipse around the corner to Wall Street and into Campbell Avenue on the first leg of what is billed as a 30- to 45-minute jaunt at a moderate pace.
Details such as time required for the tour, building identifications and even tips on the district's food fare are part of the bureau's Historic Downtown Walking Tour brochure that debuted as an advertising section in this month's The Roanoker magazine.
The tour was developed by Catherine Fox, director of tourism development for the bureau, and John Kern, historian and executive director of the Roanoke Regional Historic Preservation Office. The magazine bound 5,000 copies of the pages dealing with the walking tour and gave them to the bureau for distribution in the information center. The Roanoker is owned by Richard Wells, a former president of the convention bureau's board.
The tour's route is similar to one developed years ago for the Roanoke Valley Historical Society. It takes walkers from the City Market to Second Street Southwest, down Second and back to the market by way of Church Avenue. The brochure includes a map with "sites and sights" numbered and also suggests side tours to the Virginia Room at the Roanoke Public Library, the Virginia Museum of Transportation and Mill Mountain Zoological Park.
by CNB