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    Roanoke Canal is a historic canal located near Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built as part of the Roanoke Navigation System and...
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    housed a National Guard Armory. In addition to Roanoke Rapids High School, the Roanoke Canal and Roanoke Rapids Historic District are listed on the National...
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    Weldon, North Carolina (category Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina micropolitan area)
    Weldon's Landing was the westernmost point of navigation along the Roanoke. The Roanoke Canal was built in 1823 to bypass the rapids and open up trade to Virginia...
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    Roanoke is a town in Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,762 at the 2020 census. Roanoke is governed by a...
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  • the construction of the Roanoke Canal. The lower rapids occurs just east of Weldon and extend to above the present City of Roanoke Rapids. At the western...
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    of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was the western terminus of the James River and Kanawha Canal when construction on the canal ended. Buchanan...
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  • Forest Neuse River Ocracoke Ocracoke Inlet Ocracoke Island Roanoke Island Roanoke River Roanoke Canal Sauratown Mountains Saxapahaw Swannanoa Wakulla Wanchese...
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    / American Craftsman style architecture. The district overlaps the Roanoke Canal Historic District. Notable buildings include the Larkin-Hart House (c...
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    79°56′26″W / 37.2682992°N 79.9404797°W / 37.2682992; -79.9404797 USS Roanoke (CL-145) was the second ship of the Worcester-class light cruisers completed...
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    The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway. The canal provided traders with...
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    phase of what came to be called the Burnside Expedition, the Battle of Roanoke Island was an amphibious operation of the American Civil War, fought on...
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    important economic and cultural sites. Most notably the English Roanoke Colony vanished from Roanoke Island in 1587 and was the first location where an English...
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    Roanoke Canal...
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  • early 1900s to the present Roanoke Canal Museum Roanoke Rapids Halifax Inner Banks Transportation website, history of the Roanoke River Valley, the engineering...
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    reconnoitered Pamlico Sound on January 20, 1862. She was also active in defense of Roanoke Island against an amphibious assault by overwhelming Federal forces on...
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    Kanawha Canal, Pumphouse, Richmond, Independent City, VA" HAER No. VA-61, "North River Canal System, West side of Buena Vista, Buena Vista, Roanoke City...
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    sent General Jesse L. Reno from Roanoke Island to destroy the Culpepper Locks near South Mills on the Dismal Swamp Canal. Reno's 3,000 troops disembarked...
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  • a murder-suicide, Chris Hurst, a former anchor for CBS affiliate WDBJ/Roanoke, wins a seat to represent the 12th District of Virginia's House of Delegates...
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    than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its existence. Its motto was "Precision Transportation";...
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  • Sports-Streaming Venture: Venu Sports". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Canal, Alexandra (February 20, 2024). "FuboTV sues to block ESPN-Fox-WBD sports...
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  • vitam est To improve the law is to improve life. The motto of the Salem/Roanoke County, Virginia Bar Association. Meliorem lapsa locavit He has planted...
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  • The Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island, also known as the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, or "Freedman's Colony", was founded in 1863 during the Civil...
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  • Ralph and Jeannie's son who died of cancer. Diany Rodriguez as María Canales, a woman from Harlem falsely convicted of murdering a young boy in a case...
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  • to provide a link for shipments of goods originating on the Roanoke River and its canal system from points west to reach port facilities in the Norfolk...
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    Halifax County, North Carolina (category Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina micropolitan area)
    of harvested whitetail deer. The Lakeland Arts Center, the Canal Arts Center, and the Roanoke Valley Players theater group are a few of the county's cultural...
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    crossed again at the Washington Street Extension just south of the Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail. Moving away from the west side of the mill, the route...
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    Virginia Community College and Liberty University. Nearby cities include Roanoke, Charlottesville, and Danville. Monacan Indian Nation and other Siouan...
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  • Credit Union Live! 6,000 1972 Robins Center 8,161 1971 Berglund Center Roanoke 10,600 (Coliseum) 4,276 (Eclipse) 2,151 (Performing Arts Center) 2014 Elmwood...
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    Downtown Roanoke, Virginia, that is devoted to the topic of transportation. The Virginia Museum of Transportation began in 1963 as the Roanoke Transportation...
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    Norfolk and Western 611 (category Roanoke, Virginia)
    Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W)...
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