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Walkabout Travel Gear was an online retailer of travel accessories that was, at the time, one of few companies to begin selling on the Internet. The company went online in November 1995. The first capture by archive.org was on December 23, 1996. [1] The domain name "walkabouttravelgear.com" was not secured until early 1996.
In 1995 and 1996, the Tour DuPont staged a time trial in the Roanoke Valley, the highlight of which was a ride over the steep, winding Twelve O'clock Knob Road. The north slope of the ridgeline formed by Poor Mountain , Twelve O'clock Knob and adjacent peaks such as Sugarloaf Mountain mark the southwestern boundary of the Roanoke Valley.
Walkabout is a term dating to the pastoral era in which large numbers of Aboriginal Australians were employed on cattle stations. During the tropical wet season, when there was little work on the stations, many would return to their traditional life on country.
By 1911, the Roanoke Street Railway Company completed a streetcar line between Raleigh Court/Virginia Heights and downtown. [6] With this streetcar extension, development of the commercial establishments of the present-day Grandin Village accelerated. [3] In 1919, Virginia Heights was annexed into the city of Roanoke.
Walkabout, a 1971 film by Nicolas Roeg and stage production based on the novel; Walkabout, an Australian travel magazine which ran from 1934 to 1974; Walkabout, a 1959 book written by James Vance Marshall, set in the Australian outback; Walkabout (dance) Walkabout Mini Golf, a virtual reality game released by Mighty Coconut.
Location of Roanoke in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Roanoke, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Roanoke, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
Roanoke city, Virginia – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [89] Pop 2010 [86] Pop 2020 [87] % 2000 % ...
A replica of the fort was built at the Explore Park in Roanoke County, Virginia in 2004. ... Charlottesville, Va., Roanoke, Va., 2002. This page was ...