Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Roanoke is the largest city along both the Appalachian Trail, which runs through Roanoke County just north of the city, [61] and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs just south of the city. [62] Carvins Cove, the third-largest municipal park in America at 12,700 acres (51 km 2), lies in northeast Roanoke County and southwest Botetourt County. [63]
The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
Roanoke Island was the site of the Roanoke Colony, an English settlement initially established in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh. A group of about 120 men, women and children arrived in 1587. Shortly after arriving here, colonist Eleanor Dare, daughter of Governor John White, gave birth to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in North ...
This map was obtained from an edition of the National Atlas of the United States. Like almost all works of the U.S. federal government, works from the National Atlas are in the public domain in the United States. Online access: NationalAtlas.gov | 1970 print edition: Library of Congress, Perry-Castañeda Library
The Roanoke Region (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) is the area of the Commonwealth of Virginia surrounding the city of Roanoke.Its usage may refer to the metropolitan statistical area or the Roanoke Valley, but it sometimes includes areas in the Allegheny Mountains and New River Valley which includes Alleghany County, Montgomery County, Covington, Clifton Forge, Blacksburg ...
Roanoke Colony, a former English colony that mysteriously disappeared; Roanoke Island, the location of the Roanoke colony in present-day North Carolina; Roanoke River, flowing through Virginia and North Carolina and emptying into Albemarle Sound near Roanoke Island
The Roanoke Valley (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) in southwest Virginia is an area adjacent to and including the Roanoke River between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Appalachian Plateau to the west. The valley includes much of Roanoke County, as well as the two independent cities of Roanoke and Salem. The Roanoke Valley
South of the Shenandoah Valley, the road reached the Roanoke River at the town of Big Lick (today, Roanoke). South of Roanoke, the Great Wagon Road was also called the Carolina Road. At Roanoke, a road forked southwest, leading into the upper New River Valley and on through Abingdon, Virginia to the Holston River in the upper Tennessee Valley.