29 Facts About Roanoke Virginia

The name Roanoke Virginia is said to have originated from an Algonquian word for "shell money", which was the name used for the river by the Algonquian speakers who lived 300 miles away, where the river emptied into the sea near Roanoke Virginia Island.

The Roanoke Virginia Gap proved a useful route for immigrants to settle the Carolina Piedmont region.

Roanoke Virginia became a city so quickly that it earned the nickname "Magic City".

Roanoke Virginia experienced something of a snow drought in the 2000s until December 2009 when 17 inches of snow fell on Roanoke Virginia in a single storm.

Roanoke Virginia's economy developed around the Norfolk and Western Railroad, with a strong emphasis on manufacturing.

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Roanoke Virginia was formerly the headquarters of Norfolk and Western Railway until its merger with the Southern Railway created the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982.

Norfolk Southern continues to operate maintenance facilities and a rail yard in Roanoke Virginia but moved its marketing department out and closed its downtown office building in 2015.

Wachovia Bank, then known as First Union, acquired Roanoke Virginia-based Dominion Bank in 1993 and maintains an operations and customer service center in Roanoke Virginia.

The immediate Roanoke Virginia area has a low unemployment rate, but a brain drain of workers unable to find satisfactory employment and underemployment are sometimes cited as explanations.

City of Roanoke Virginia has created initiatives to address the brain drain of the region such as a database to match job seekers who wish to reside in the Roanoke Virginia area with employers looking for candidates.

Roanoke Virginia's location allows for delivery within one day to most markets in the southeast, northeast, mid-atlantic, and Ohio Valley, which has made it a distribution center for such companies as Orvis, Elizabeth Arden, and Hanover Direct.

The Center, a converted warehouse, houses the History Museum of Western Roanoke Virginia, which contains exhibits and artifacts related to the area's history and has a library of materials available to scholars and the public.

Berglund Center auditorium and theatre, now known as the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre, has hosted concerts, touring Broadway theatre performances, and the Miss Virginia pageant.

Roanoke Virginia has been home to the Showtimers Community Theatre since 1951.

Opera Roanoke was founded in 1976 as the Southwest Virginia Opera Society, Opera Roanoke has collaborated with the finest talent in our region, across the state and from cultural centers around the nation.

Under the direction of Victoria Bond, Craig Fields, Steven White and Scott Williamson, Opera Roanoke Virginia has maintained a reputation for presenting outstanding productions featuring some of the finest singers in the opera world.

Roanoke Virginia served as the home for the Big South Conference men's basketball tournament and women's basketball tournament in 2001 and 2002.

Republican Bob Good represents much of the area to south and east of Roanoke Virginia, including nearby Franklin County, in which stretches north to Charlottesville.

In statewide elections, Roanoke Virginia is often one of the few areas west of Charlottesville to vote Democratic.

The six public middle schools in Roanoke City are Woodrow Wilson, James Madison Middle School and John P Fishwick that feed into Patrick Henry High School, and Lucy Addison, William Ruffner and James Breckinridge, that feed into William Fleming High School.

Private non-parochial schools in Roanoke Virginia City include Community High School, that provides classes from ninth to 12th grade, and New Vista Montessori, that provides classes from third to ninth grade.

The Roanoke Virginia Times established a web site in 1995 and has developed a web portal at Roanoke Virginia.

The weekly Roanoke Virginia Tribune was founded in 1939 by Fleming Alexander and covers the city's African-American community.

Roanoke Virginia Star-Sentinel is a weekly newspaper which covers the city of Roanoke Virginia.

The South Roanoke Virginia Circle is an independent monthly newspaper for the neighborhood of South Roanoke Virginia.

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Roanoke Virginia is divided into four quadrants: Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and Southeast .

The mailing address for locations in Roanoke Virginia includes the two letter quadrant abbreviation after the street name.

Roanoke Virginia is a major hub in Norfolk Southern's freight rail system.

Roanoke Virginia City is served by RIDE Solutions, a regional transportation demand management agency that provides carpool matching, cycling advocacy, transit assistance and remote work assistance to businesses and citizens in the region.