* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.

* Birthday of Virginia Dare ( Roanoke Island )

Virginia Dare ( born August 18, 1587 ) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Ananias and Eleanor White Dare in the short-lived Roanoke Colony.

* Riverside, Virginia, an unincorporated place in Roanoke County

The Roanoke area, with an estimated population of 300, 399, is the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in western Virginia.

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.

** Hollins University ( in Roanoke, Virginia by Charles Cocke )

* June 4 – Walter Ralegh sends Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia ( now North Carolina ), with a view to establishing an English colony ; they locate Roanoke Island.

File: John Randolph of Roanoke at National Portrait Gallery IMG 4460. JPG | Congressman John Randolph of Virginia

* Salem, Virginia, an independent city adjacent to Roanoke

American historians claim that the world's first component of civilian pre-hospital care on scene began in 1928, when " Julien Stanley Wise started the Roanoke Life Saving and First Aid Crew in Roanoke, Virginia, Virginia, which was the first land-based rescue squad in the nation.

* Roanoke College, a private college in Salem, Virginia, United States

* Virginia, except for fourteen counties ( Amherst, Augusta, Botetourt, Essex, Frederick, Greene, Middlesex, Page, Pulaski, Roanoke, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Washington and Warren ) and four independent cities ( Fairfax, Harrisonburg, Salem, and Winchester )

* Belmont, Roanoke, Virginia

* Harrison, Roanoke, Virginia

* Garden City, Roanoke, Virginia

* Riverdale, Roanoke, Virginia, a neighborhood

* Wildwood, Roanoke, Virginia, United States

As the name Barlow is associated with the initial discovery and mapping of the Virginia coast by Capt Arthur Barlowe ( 1550 – 1620 ) in 1584, it is conceivable that Ann Barlow is directly connected to the first Governor of Roanoke, Virginia.

* July 22 – Colony of Roanoke: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.

The settlers ' chosen destination was not Roanoke but the Chesapeake Bay but, on reaching Roanoake in late July, and allowing the colonists to disembark, Fernandez refused to let White's men re-board ship.

The Battle of Roanoke Island ( February 7 – 8, 1862 ) was an incident in the Union North Carolina Expedition of January to July 1862, when Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside landed an amphibious force and took Confederate forts on the island.

They arrived on Roanoke Island on July 4, and soon established relations with the local natives, the Secotans and Croatans.

They were ordered to travel to Roanoke first to gather Grenville's men, but when they arrived on July 22, 1587, they found nothing except a skeleton that may have been the remains of one of the English garrison.

Between their arrival in Roanoke in April 1585 and the July 1586 departure, Harriot and White both conducted detailed studies of the Roanoke area, with Harriot compiling his samples and notes into several notebooks that unfortunately did not survive the colony's disappearance.

On July 13, 2004, an F4 tornado demolished the Parsons Manufacturing Plant approximately west of downtown Roanoke.

The Cheerwine Kreme doughnut returned for July 2011 and made its debut in Tennessee and Roanoke, Virginia.

William Gerry Myers III ( born July 13, 1955, Roanoke, Virginia ) is an American lawyer and former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The location for the airport was secured on July 1, 1929, when the city of Roanoke signed the lease on the land to operate the Roanoke Municipal Airport.

Approved by the Virginia General Assembly on February 18, 1986, and initiated on July 1, 1987, the Roanoke Regional Airport Commission consisted of five members, with three appointed from Roanoke City and two appointed from Roanoke County.

Destinations with daily nonstop service to / from Roanoke Regional Airport ( as of July 30, 2012 )

On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at about 2: 30 PM, a tornado with a maximum reported width of a quarter mile ( 0. 4 km ) struck west of the village of Roanoke, damaging much of the area and cutting power to the main town of Roanoke for three days.

* Roanoke F4 Tornado of July 13, 2004 ( NWS Central Illinois )

* The July 13, 2004 Roanoke Illinois Tornado Event: The Warning Response Process at the Parsons Plant ( Chris Miller ~ NWS Central Illinois )

June 4: Roanoke Island | Roanoke.

Beginning in 1863, a total of nearly 4, 000 freedmen from North Carolina enlisted in the United States Colored Troops to fight with the Union for their permanent freedom, including 150 men from the Freedmen's Colony on Roanoke Island.

Oak Street in Roanoke is the newly redeveloped Old Town District which is the home for a number of restaurants, such as Babe's Chicken Dinner House, Twisted Root Burger Company, Cowboy Chow, Gerhard's German Restaurant, Brix Pizza and Wine, and the 4 Star, Classic Cafe.

The town is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area, and had a population of 4, 066 at the 2000 census.

Joachim Gans was sequestered on Roanoke Island to research copper smelting techniques of the indigenous tribes in order to reduce European smelting times from 16 weeks to 4 days ; giving the English a strategic advantage over other European nations in smelting and forging cannons for their warships.

* Devanny, John F., Jr. "' A Loathing of Public Debt, Taxes, and Excises ': The Political Economy of John Randolph of Roanoke ," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 2001 109 ( 4 ): pp 387 – 416.

* 120. 4 Roanoke Mountain is a side trip.

They are followed by Asheville Tulsa ( 14 ); Fayetteville ( 11 ); Colorado ( 9 ); Huntsville / Albuquerque, Charleston / Florida, Roanoke and Sioux Falls ( 8 ); Iowa ( 6 ); Fort Worth and Idaho ( 5 ); Dakota, Fort Wayne and Mobile ( 4 ); Bakersfield and Los Angeles ( 3 ); Rio Grande Valley and Anaheim / Springfield ( 2 ) and Arkansas, Erie, Greenville and Utah ( 1 ).

* PRR 4919 / Amtrak ( 4 ) 917 — Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia

She returned to Annapolis with the majority of the regiment, the 53rd New York, a detachment of the command was active in the battle of Roanoke island Not until February 4 was the fleet as ready as it ever would be and assembled in Pamlico Sound.

According to the team's website, Mugsy descended from the passing Hale-Bopp comet that raced across the Roanoke Valley sky on April 4, 1997.

It is located 3 – 4 miles to the southeast of present day Roanoke, and about 1 mile southwest of Bacon Level Church.

Bacon Level, Alabama is a small community located 3 – 4 miles southeast of Roanoke, Alabama, in Randolph County, Alabama.

In December 2011, Hawaiian Falls announced plans for a $ 2 million expansion for the Roanoke waterpark and another $ 4. 3 million in expansions for the other three North Texas parks to be completed by Memorial Day 2012!

Piedmont continued to serve Roanoke through its merger with USAir, and the final Piedmont flights from Roanoke occurred on August 4, 1989.

The tornado started approximately 1. 8 mi ( 3 km ) north of Metamora, located eight miles ( 12. 8 km ) west of Roanoke, and lifted approximately 2. 5 mi ( 4 km ) southeast of Roanoke.