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After nearly 40 years, Law Library leaves the Roanoke courthouse


Even in the 19th century, people drew doodles.
Evidence of this can be found locally, in an 1819 copy of The Laws of Virginia which, for decades, has been on display in the library at Roanoke s courthouse.
Just inside that thick, brown tome — published in Richmond, 202 years ago — a former owner wrote his name large: David Robertson.  
Although he ran out of space before he reached the final n, Robertson compensated with ornate frills drawn around the other letters. Elsewhere, he used a pencil to long-divide 100 by 6. And pressed between pages 442 and 443 is a large and desert-dry leaf, a makeshift bookmark that, at least a century later, is still saving its place. ....

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