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Roanoke

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Roanoke

City in Virginia, USA, on the Roanoke River, in Great Valley, 65 km/41 mi west of Lynchburg; population (2000) 94,900. It is the marketing and distribution point for a rich agricultural area. Manufactured products include chemicals, steel goods, furniture, and textiles.

Settled in 1740, and chartered as Big Lick in 1834, the community developed rapidly after 1881 as a repair centre for the Virginia Railway. The town was renamed in 1882 when it became a junction of the Norfolk and Western Railway and the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.

An illuminated star on a hill within Roanoke proclaims it the ‘star city’ of Virginia.



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