Wireless Valley is a term that was coined by Professor Ted Rappaport in 1990 when he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, and was used to describe the Roanoke / Blacksburg Virginia region and the potential of research to create spin-out companies.

It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia.

Roanoke's location in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the middle of the Roanoke Valley between Maryland and Tennessee, made it the transportation hub of western Virginia and contributed to its rapid growth.

The Great Wagon Road, one of the most heavily travelled roads of eighteenth century America, ran from Philadelphia through the Shenandoah Valley to the future site of the City of Roanoke, where the Roanoke River passed through the Blue Ridge.

For the junction for the Shenandoah Valley and the Norfolk and Western roads, Kimball and his board of directors selected the small Virginia village called Big Lick, on the Roanoke River.

Roanoke's festivals and cultural events include the Chili Cook-Off, Festival in the Park, Local Colors Festival, Henry Street Festival, Big Lick Blues Festival, Strawberry Festival, and the large red, white, and blue illuminated Mill Mountain Star ( formerly illuminated in red following drunk driving fatalities in the Roanoke Valley ; temporarily illuminated in white on April 22, 2007 in remembrance of the Virginia Tech Massacre of April 16, 2007 ) on Mill Mountain, which is visible from many points in the city and surrounding valley.

The City of Roanoke lies within the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, which also includes Lynchburg and much of the Shenandoah Valley.

It received a college charter in 1853 and was renamed Roanoke College for the Roanoke Valley.

This game is played annually in the Roanoke Valley and consists of two football teams from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

* The Roanoke Valley Radio Control Club

While significant areas of the county are rural and mountainous, most residents live in the suburbs near Roanoke and Salem in the Roanoke Valley.

Milnes took this opportunity to spearhead the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, which would begin in Roanoke, Virginia and wind through the Shenandoah Valley to Hagerstown, Maryland.

The cultural region covers a larger area that includes all of the valley plus the Virginia highlands to the west, and the Roanoke Valley to the south.

Between the Roanoke Valley in the south and Harpers Ferry in the north, where the Shenandoah River joins the Potomac, the Valley cultural region contains 10 independent cities:

More recently the grape has caught the attention of growers in cooler areas such as Long Island and the Finger Lakes of New York, The Grand Valley AVA of Colorado, the Shawnee Hills AVA of southern Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan's west coast, Washington state and in the Monticello wine region in the Virginia Piedmont as well as the Roanoke metropolitan area and Rocky Knob AVA areas of Southwestern Virginia.

The Army established the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony in 1863, an important social experiment as part of the US government's developing policies related to the future of the slaves in freedom.

It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area and located within the Roanoke Region of Virginia.

The independent cities of Roanoke and Salem ( incorporated as such in 1884 and 1968 respectively ) are located within the boundaries of Roanoke County, but are not a part of the county.

Franklin County is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area and located in the Roanoke Region of Virginia.

The headwaters of the south fork of the Roanoke River are in the northeastern part of the county.

Craig County is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Clifton Forge is a town in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States which is part of the Roanoke Region.

Botetourt County is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area and located in the Roanoke Region of Virginia.

Botetourt County is a part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the southern parts of the county have become increasingly suburban in recent decades.

It is the northernmost part of the Roanoke Region.

Northampton County is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Halifax County is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Wanchese is part of District 1, along with Manteo, Roanoke Island and Manns Harbor.

Enfield is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Halifax is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

At Roanoke Gap, another branch of the Great Wagon Road, the Wilderness Road, continued southwest to Tennessee.

Regional names of the southern Great Valley include Hagerstown Valley in Maryland, Winchester Valley and Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and West Virginia, the upper valley of the James River, Roanoke Valley, and New River Valley in Virginia, the Holston River Valley in Virginia and Tennessee, and the East Tennessee Valley extending from Virginia through Tennessee to Alabama.

The Wilderness Road branched off from the Great Wagon Road at present-day Roanoke, Virginia, crossed the Cumberland Gap and led to Kentucky and Tennessee, especially the fertile Bluegrass region and Nashville Basin.

Immigrants continued to travel from the Philadelphia area south through the Great Valley beyond Shenandoah, to the vicinity of the modern city of Roanoke, Virginia.

* Carolina Road from Roanoke, Virginia on the Great Wagon Road through the Piedmont to Augusta, Georgia.

The railroad extended westward from Lynchburg, through a gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains near the town of Big Lick ( the present-day city of Roanoke ); there, it turned southwestward and followed the Great Valley to Bristol, a total distance of 204 miles.

Parts of US 220 in Virginia south of Roanoke follow what used to be called the Carolina Road or the Great Road.

He served on the Roanoke ( southwestern Virginia ) front during the Great War and received a commendation for saving the life of President Theodore Roosevelt.