When I was growing up in Roanoke, Virginia, some of the best restaurants from my childlike point of view included the Ground Round and ShowBiz Pizza (now called Chuck E. Cheese). In attempt to keep up with the Joneses, Roanoke has acquired a variety of new restaurants in order to maintain its growing population. Some ...
It is the middle of July. The temperature outside is super hot. All you want to do is get into a pool and sit. Maybe you want to float down the lazy river. Maybe you would like to go down a fast water slide. Well, if you are in Roanoke, Virginia, where can you go? ...
The Roanoke Colony was the first English settlement in America. It vanished. The mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke Island has baffled society for hundreds of years. A group of settlers disappeared into North America with hardly a trace and no one has seen concrete evidence of their existence in centuries. Many theories have ...
The colony of Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America. Everyone learned in elementary school about Captain John Smith and the famous Indian Princess, Pocahontas. Yet, there was an earlier, important English colony in America that many people do not know about. Historians call it the lost colony. It was the colony of ...
Roanoke Island is a place of history as the English first settled there in 1585. But the mystery of what happened to the one hundred settlers is still not solved. Sir Walter Raleigh had sent one hundred men to Roanoke Island as he saw it as a place where English warships could be repaired because ...
Are you ready to head out of Georgia’s most heavily populated city for a road trip that doubles as a complete change of scenery? If your fuel-efficient comfortable ride is ready and packed, Roanoke, Orlando, and New Orleans beckon. Roanoke, VA: 433.6 Miles away If history is your passion, Roanoke delivers on a variety of ...
Imagine returning to the location of what had previously been a burgeoning colony of over 100 settlers only to find the village abandoned with no trace of the occupants. This is what happened to John White at Roanoke Island. The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony is one of the biggest mysteries in ...
A review of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia reveals the “inconvenient truth” that Roanoke College is in fact not located in Roanoke, Virginia but in nearby Salem, Virginia. The large city of Roanoke with a metropolitan population of more than a quarter of a million, that shares its name with the college is about 8 ...
