* Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse

Edenton is also the home of the 1886 Roanoke River Lighthouse.

The Roanoke River Lighthouse, now located at Edenton, is believed to be the last extant example in the United States of a rectangular frame building built for a screw-pile base.

* Roanoke River Lighthouse & Maritime Museum

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.

The county is bordered by Craig County to the north, Floyd County to the south, Giles County to the northwest, the City of Radford and Pulaski County to the southwest, and Roanoke County to the east.

" It is the seventh oldest surviving English place-name in the U. S., first applied as " Chesepiook " by explorers heading north from the Roanoke Colony into a Chesapeake tributary in 1585 or 1586.

Roanoke Virginia July 4, 1910-One white man Joe Chockely has a bullet wound in his skull and probably fatally wounded is a net result of clashes here tonight following the announcement that Jack Johnson defeated Jeffries.

Little is known of White's life after the failure of the Roanoke Colony.

The last surviving document related to White is a letter he wrote from Ireland in 1593 to the publisher of the prints of his Roanoke drawings.

1552 ) and the father of an Elizabeth Wighte ( 1606 – 1671 ) who is sometimes thought to have been the ex-wife of Nathaniel Eaton ( 1610 – 1674 ), the first schoolmaster of Harvard College, Massachusetts ; there is a possibility that Bridget White, the sister of John White the Governor of Roanoke Colony, and Bridgett White, the second wife of the same above-mentioned Robert Wight, are directly related to each other.

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.

Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County near the coast of North Carolina, United States.

Roanoke Island is one of the three oldest surviving English place-names in the U. S. Along with the Chowan and Neuse rivers, it was named in 1584 by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Possibly the oldest cultivated grapevine in the world is the 400-year-old scuppernong " Mother Vine " growing on Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

A sketch of the fort in Guyanailla Bay, which is likely similar to the fort constructed on Roanoke

Roanoke is an independent city in the Southern U. S. state of Virginia and is the tenth-largest city in the Commonwealth.

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

It is the largest municipality in Southwest Virginia, and is the principal municipality of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ).

It is composed of the independent cities of Roanoke and Salem, and the counties of Botetourt, Craig, Franklin and Roanoke.

Bisected by the Roanoke River, Roanoke is the commercial and cultural hub of much of the surrounding area of Virginia and Southwest Virginia.

She is able to use the same spell that her father used to find Wotan, and the rest of the Injustice League, to locate Klarion the Witch Boy on Roanoke Island.

For a location for the film, they did not find anything suitable in the Catskills ( as many of the resorts had been shut down at that point ), so they decided on a combination of two locations: Lake Lure, North Carolina, and the Mountain Lake Hotel near Roanoke, Virginia, with careful editing making it look like all of the shooting was done in the same area.

Also that same year a tradition began that lasted nearly three-quarters of a century, the VPI-VMI annual football game in Roanoke.

The same year, Cocke established the first school for enslaved people in the Roanoke area ; many students at the school worked at the seminary.

Despite the delivery of supplies in 1608 on the First and Second Supply missions of Captain Christopher Newport, it seemed certain, at that time, that without a major relief effort, the colony at Jamestown would meet the same fate as two earlier failed English attempts to settle in North America, the Roanoke Colony and the Popham Colony.

They settled in at the parish of St Bride Fleet Street, London – exactly the same church that Ananias Dare and his wife Elinor White, the daughter of John White the famous scientific illustrator of the New World, called their own parish just before they left for the colony of Roanoke, Virginia in 1587, never to return again.

Very little else is known of Dare other than the birth of his child, but his father-in-law, John White, was appointed the first Governor of Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke colony in the same year, 1587, and was also the first scientific illustrator appointed by Queen Elizabeth I, to illustrate everything in particular that he observed was different or foreign to English eyes.

" The same author wrote of the Roanoke Valley, Virginia: " One may make a pleasant voyage on the New River from this point to Eggleston's Springs, twenty-five miles further down the current, taking one of the many bateaux which ply constantly on the stream, and simply drifting on the lazy wave until the destination is reached.

In her 2000 book Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony, historian Lee Miller postulated that some of the Lost Colony survivors sought shelter with the Chowanoke, that was attacked by another tribe, identified by the Jamestown Colony as the " Mandoag " ( an Algonquian name commonly given to enemy nations ).

The name Roanoke is said to have originated from an Algonquian word for shell " money ".

Although the grateful citizens offered to rename their town " Kimball ", at his suggestion, they agreed to name it Roanoke after the river.

In fact, Manteo was christened and given the name Lord of Roanoke, making him the first Native American to receive a title of nobility.

Moratuc was an Indian name for the Roanoke River.

It was led by a man, who had done some work in Nashville, and was very popular on the Roanoke scene, by the name Roy Hall.

The name Hatteras is the sixth oldest surviving English place-name in the U. S. An inlet north of the cape was named " Hatrask " in 1585 by Sir Richard Grenville, the admiral leading the Roanoke Colony expedition sent by Sir Walter Raleigh.

The original name of the freeway in planning documents was the Roanoke Expressway and later the Roanoke Freeway, due to its terminus at Interstate 5 near Roanoke Street and Roanoke Park in Seattle.

The name Roanoke is derived from rawrenok, an Algonquian word for wampum.

The name was chosen purposefully to not reflect Roanoke's railroad heritage as two other professional teams, the Roanoke Express and the Roanoke Steam, already called the civic center home.

* The Roanoke Colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina ( Lost 1587-88 ) Settlers of the first English colony in the New World vanish ; leaving an abandoned settlement and the word " Croatoan ," the name of a nearby island, carved into a post.

By 1881, the Seaboard and Roanoke, the Raleigh and Gaston, and others were operating as a coordinated system under the Seaboard Air-Line System name for marketing purposes, combining the nicknames of the two principal roads.

The expedition that came to be known by his name got under way in January 1862, and in early February had made its first conquest, Roanoke Island.

* Town of Big Lick ( 1874 – 1882 ) became town and later the independent City of Roanoke ( name change )

An additional Williamsburg location and a Roanoke location closed during 2009 due to low sales and poor recognition of the Richmond-based Ukrop's brand name in other cities saturated with other stores.

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon ( also known as the " Anesthetic Prowler ", the " Mad Anesthetist ", the " Phantom Anesthetist ", the " Mad Gasser of Roanoke ", or simply the " Mad Gasser ") was the name given to the person or people believed to be responsible for a series of apparent gas attacks that occurred in Botetourt County, Virginia, during the early 1930s, and in Mattoon, Illinois, during the mid-1940s.

With the runway extension underway, the airport officially changed its name from Roanoke Municipal Airport to Roanoke Regional Airport in 1983.