Roanoke Definition

Roanoke Sentence Examples

• Burnside took possession of Roanoke island on the North Carolina coast (7th February).

• The Roanoke river provides water-power.

• Roanoke is served by the Virginian railway, by the main line and the Shenandoah and the Winston-Salem divisions of the Norfolk & Western railway, and by electric railway to Vinton and to Salem.

• His colony at Roanoke, in what is now the state of North Carolina, was unsuccessful, and after his fall his patent reverted to the crown, but the new Virginia Company carried on his schemes.

• Roanoke's factory product in 1905 was valued at $5,544,907 (2.7% more than in 1900).