The history of Roanoke, Texas goes back to the year of 1847, when a small group of twenty settlers and their families settled near Denton Creek, north of the present location of Roanoke.  First called the Medlin Settlement in honor of Louis and Charles Medlin whose families were in the colony.  The early community was later designated  Garden Valley.

Laid out in one-half acre tracts, the early settlement had stores and a blacksmith shop.  Frequent floods of Denton Creek, which often reached the roof tops of the houses, endangered the lives of both the settlers and their livestock.  About 1879 the settlement was moved closer to the present site of Roanoke.  In 1881 and 1882 most of the settlers began moving to a new town sight, which was being laid out by the railroad.  One of the railroad surveyors named the town Roanoke in memory of his home town in Virginia.  For the rest of the story click here.

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