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Roanoke may refer to: Places *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 *Roanoke Valley, part of the Great Appalachian Valley near the headwaters of the Roanoke River in Virginia *Roanoke, Alabama * Roanoke, Georgia * Roanoke, Illinois *Roanoke, Indiana *Roanoke, Louisiana * Roanoke, Missouri *Roanoke, Texas *Roanoke, Virginia, the largest US city named Roanoke *Roanoke County, Virginia *Roanoke, West Virginia *Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina *Randolph, Virginia, formerly called Roanoke Other uses *Roanoke tribe, a Carolina Algonquian-speaking tribe in western North Carolina *Roanoke Park (Seattle), a park in Seattle, Washington * USS ''Roanoke'', various USN vessels named Roanoke * ''Roanoke'' (ship), an American ship (1892–1905) *Roanoke College, a private l ...
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Roanoke Colony
The Roanoke Colony ( ) refers to two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The first colony was established at Roanoke Island in 1585 as a military outpost, and was evacuated in 1586. The more famous second colony, known as the Lost Colony, began when a new group of settlers under John White (colonist and artist), John White arrived on the island in 1587; a relief ship in 1590 found the colony mysteriously abandoned. The fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains unknown. Roanoke Colony was founded by Governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. Lane's colony was troubled by a lack of supplies and poor relations with some of the local Native Americans in the United States, Indian tribes. A resupply mission by Sir Richard Grenville was delayed, so Lane abandoned the colony and returned to England with Sir Francis Drake in 1586. Grenville arrived two weeks later and also return ...
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Roanoke, West Virginia
Roanoke is an unincorporated community in southern Lewis County, West Virginia, United States. Most of the original town is located under of Stonewall Jackson Lake's water. A display at the Stonewall Resort State Park's lodge tells the story of the flood-plagued town that was purchased in the 1980s by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The flood control dam at Stonewall Jackson Lake went into service in 1988. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Roanoke has also been known as "Bush Mills", "Bushs Mills", "Roanville", and "Roanville Station". The community was named after Roanoke, Virginia Roanoke ( ) is an Independent city (United States), independent city in Virginia, United States. It lies in Southwest Virginia, along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanok .... References External links * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Unincorporated communities in Lewis County, West Vir ...
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Roanoke
Roanoke may refer to: Places *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 *Roanoke Valley, part of the Great Appalachian Valley near the headwaters of the Roanoke River in Virginia *Roanoke, Alabama * Roanoke, Georgia * Roanoke, Illinois *Roanoke, Indiana *Roanoke, Louisiana * Roanoke, Missouri *Roanoke, Texas *Roanoke, Virginia, the largest US city named Roanoke *Roanoke County, Virginia *Roanoke, West Virginia *Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina *Randolph, Virginia, formerly called Roanoke Other uses *Roanoke tribe, a Carolina Algonquian-speaking tribe in western North Carolina *Roanoke Park (Seattle), a park in Seattle, Washington * USS ''Roanoke'', various USN vessels named Roanoke * ''Roanoke'' (ship), an American ship (1892–1905) *Roanoke College, a private l ...
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Roanoke Building
11 South LaSalle Street Building or Eleven South LaSalle Street Building (formerly Roanoke Building and Tower and originally Lumber Exchange Building and Tower Addition or simply the Roanoke Building and Lumber Exchange Building) is a Chicago Landmark building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and that is located at 11 South LaSalle Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. This address is located on the southeast corner of LaSalle and Madison Street in Cook County, Illinois, across the Madison Street from the One North LaSalle Building. The building sits on a site of a former Roanoke building (once known as Major Block 2) that once served as a National Weather Service Weather Forecast official climate site and replaced Major Block 1 after the Great Chicago Fire. The current building has incorporated the frontage of other buildings east of the original site of Major Block 1. The building was listed on the National ...
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Neo Roanoke
This is a list of fictional characters featured in the Cosmic Era (CE) timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries. These characters appear in the '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' and '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'' anime television series, the sequel film '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom'', as well as in the manga and OVA spinoffs. Both series focus on the raging conflict between Naturals and Coordinators, the former being regular humans and the latter being genetically-enhanced ones. ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' begins when the neutral space colony Heliopolis is attacked by ZAFT, a military organization composed of Coordinators. Coordinator Kira Yamato pilots the mobile suit GAT-X105 Strike to protect his friends on the Naturals' ship ''Archangel'' from potential enemies as they head towards Earth. ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny'' continues two years after ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' and follows the teenager Shinn Asuka and his duties in ZAFT. Protagonists Kira Yamato ...
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Roanoke College
Roanoke College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia. It has approximately 2,000 students who represent approximately 40 states and 30 countries. The college offers 35 majors, 57 minors and concentrations, and pre-professional programs. Roanoke awards bachelor's degrees in arts, science, and business administration and is one of 280 colleges with a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Roanoke is an NCAA Division III school competing in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. The college fields varsity teams in eleven men's and ten women's sports. Roanoke's athletic nickname is Roanoke Maroons, Maroons and the mascot is Rooney (mascot), Rooney, a maroon-tailed hawk. History Early years A boys' university-preparatory school, preparatory school was founded by Lutheran pastors David F. Bittle and Christopher C. Baughmann. Originally located in Augusta County, Virginia, Augusta County near Staunto ...
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Roanoke (ship)
''Roanoke'' was one of the largest wooden ships ever constructed. Service ''Roanoke'' was a four- masted barque built by Messrs. A. Sewall and Co. in 1892 on the Kennebec River at Bath, Maine, in the United States. With the exception of '' Great Republic'' and the six-masted wooden schooner ''Wyoming'' (3,730.54 GRT, 450 ft length overall) she was the largest wooden ship ever built in an American yard. Her gross register tonnage was 3,347, but on a draft of she could stow away 2,000 additional tons.Rowe, 1948. Her length was , her beam , and her hold depth .''The Argus''
Melbourne, Friday August 11, 1905
Her lower yards were long, and her foremast truck was from the deck. The was in two tiers of
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USS Roanoke
USS ''Roanoke'' may refer to: * was a screw frigate Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were not meant to stand in the line of battle. The first such ships were paddle stea ... commissioned in 1857, converted to carry three revolving turrets in 1863, and in periodic use until 1882 * was the civilian vessel ''El Dia'' converted to a minelayer in 1917 and returned in 1919 * was a patrol gunboat, reclassified as a patrol frigate, then renamed ''Lorain'' in 1944 while under construction * , a light cruiser, was canceled on 5 October 1944, prior to the start of construction * was a light cruiser in service from 1949 to 1958 * was a fleet replenishment oiler from 1956 to 1957 * was a replenishment oiler in service from 1976 to 1995 {{DEFAULTSORT:Roanoke, USS United States Navy ship names ...
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Roanoke Park (Seattle)
Roanoke Park is a park between the north Capitol Hill and Portage Bay neighborhoods in Seattle, Washington. It occupies the block bounded by E. Edgar and Roanoke Streets on the north and south and 10th Avenue E. and Broadway E. on the east and west, just northeast of the junction of State Route 520 and Interstate 5. The park was named by David T. Denny and Henry Fuhrman after Roanoke, Virginia Roanoke ( ) is an Independent city (United States), independent city in Virginia, United States. It lies in Southwest Virginia, along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanok .... It was bought by the city of Seattle in 1908. References External linksParks Department page on Roanoke Park
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Roanoke Tribe
The Roanoke (), also spelled Roanoac, were a Carolina Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking people whose territory comprised present-day Dare County, Roanoke Island, and part of the mainland at the time of English exploration and colonization. They were one of the numerous Carolina Algonquian tribes, which may have numbered Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, 5,000 to 10,000 people in total in eastern North Carolina at the time of English encounter."Indian Towns and Buildings of Eastern North Carolina"
''Fort Raleigh National Historic Site'', National Park Service, 2008, accessed 24 April 2010
The last tribal chief of the Roanoke was believed to be Wanchese (chief), Wanchese, who traveled to England with colonists in ...
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Randolph, Virginia
Randolph, formerly called Roanoke and Talcott, is a small unincorporated community in Charlotte County, Virginia, United States, near the Staunton River. Its elevation is 354 feet (108 m). The community is the home of Staunton River Battlefield State Park. Mulberry Hill and the Wade Archeological Site are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Randolph has a humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a subtropical -temperate climate type, characterized by long and hot summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between ..., abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. References * Unincorporated communities in Charlotte County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{Cha ...
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Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
Roanoke Rapids () is a city in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 15,229 at the 2020 census and is the largest community in Halifax County. It is the principal city of the Roanoke Rapids Micropolitan Statistical Area, and is also an anchor city of the Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids CSA, with a total population of 297,726 as of 2018. Geography Roanoke Rapids is located in northern Halifax County bordered to the north by Northampton County, with the county line following the Roanoke River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.36%, are water. The town is located at the eastern edge of the North Carolina Piedmont, on the Roanoke River at the fall line, which marks the area where an upland region (continental bedrock) and a coastal plain (coastal alluvia) meet. The fall line is typically prominent where a river crosses it, for there will usually be rapids or waterfalls. Beca ...
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