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The Roanoke River is also known as the Staunton River for 80 miles between Smith Mountain Lake and convergence with the Dan River at Kerr Lake. The river is impounded in six locations. The first is the Niagara Dam just south of the City of Roanoke in Roanoke County adjacent to the town of Vinton.
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Roanoke River Light. / 36.056029; -76.610905. The Roanoke...
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La colonia di Roanoke fu il secondo insediamento inglese in America del Nord, dopo quello di San Giovanni di Terranova, fondato nel 1583, e il terzo insediamento europeo. È nota soprattutto per una misteriosa sparizione di massa che coinvolse la totalità degli abitanti.
Roanoke (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains.
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 America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
The Roanoke River runs 410 miles (660 km) long through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
Roanoke River. the Roanoke River starts west of the Blue Ridge, travels through the gap at Smith Mountain, and exits into North Carolina at the boundary of Mecklenburg and Brunswick counties Source: US Geological Survey (USGS), Streamer. The Roanoke River flows from the Valley and Ridge province through the Blue Ridge, then across the Piedmont ...
