ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – The historic Cave Spring community is one of four sites listed on the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation’s 2026 Endangered Sites List. This annual designation is meant to promote awareness and education for preserving historic resources.
The Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation has been releasing the list every May since 1996, timed to coincide with National Preservation Month.
This year’s list includes an antebellum brick house, a post-Civil War stone railroad bridge listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a 1920 golf course with ties to one of Roanoke’s earliest settlers, and the fading historic community of Cave Spring.
1850 Butts House — Roanoke College, Salem
The Butts House at 102 N. Market Street in Salem is a rare surviving example of mid-19th century work by J.C. Deyerle, a member of the well-known Deyerle family of master builders who constructed many of the earliest and most prominent buildings at Roanoke College, in Salem, and across Roanoke County…