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Roanoke (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) is an independent city in Virginia, United States.It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains.
Annexed into Roanoke in 1976, Southern Hills is an area of contrasts with higher density residential and commercial development along 220 and rural, low density development at its interior. [54] Villa Heights. Villa Heights is located in northern Roanoke and is bound by Cove Road, Lafayette Boulevard, Melrose Avenue and the Roanoke Country Club ...
Formed from parts of Botetourt, Roanoke, Giles, and Monroe (in present-day West Virginia) counties in 1851, Craig was later enlarged with several subsequent additions from neighboring counties. [ 5 ] The secluded, mountainous New Castle community, the county seat, has one of the commonwealth's antebellum court complexes, including a porticoed ...
Roanoke County (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) is a county in the U.S. state of the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, its population was 96,929. [2] Its county seat is Salem, but the county administrative offices are located in the census-designated place of Cave Spring.
Southwest Virginia, often abbreviated as SWVA, is a mountainous region of Virginia in the westernmost part of the commonwealth.Located within the broader region of western Virginia, Southwest Virginia has been defined alternatively as all Virginia counties on the Appalachian Plateau, all Virginia counties west of the Eastern Continental Divide, or at its greatest expanse, as far east as ...
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 ...
Roanoke, with its knights and villains and its brave but outnumbered few facing an alien culture, provided all the elements for a national myth." [229] The first known use of the phrase "The Lost Colony" to describe the 1587 Roanoke settlement was by Eliza Lanesford Cushing in an 1837 historical romance, Virginia Dare; or, the Lost Colony.
This partial list of city nicknames in Virginia compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in the U.S. state of Virginia are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.