Since Europeans first settled along the banks of Back Creek in the 1740s, southwest Roanoke County\'s History has been as fluid as the creek itself.
The colonial-era Trader\'s Path that directed Scots-Irish homesteaders, the growth of the apple industry in Bent Mountain after the Civil War, a state highway built by convicts during the Depression and Cave Spring becoming a modern commercial center have shaped.
The once dense forest with log cabins gave way to the sprawling suburbs of the present.
Since Europeans first settled along the banks of Back Creek in the 1740s, southwest Roanoke County\'s History has been as fluid as the creek itself