Roanoke River

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Roanoke River

A river rising in southwest Virginia and flowing about 660 km (410 mi) generally east and southeast to Albemarle Sound in northeast North Carolina.

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Portage for canoeists and kayakers on the Roanoke River around the Niagara hydroelectric project has reopened fulltime according to Appalachian Power.

United States : Roanoke River portage at Niagara dam reopens

Built near Edwards Ferry on the Roanoke River, Albemarle was launched in the spring of 1864.

Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War

This province consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap.

The Shack

Roth, the mayor of Plymouth, a small town on the Roanoke River.

Civil relations; Spirits warming between one-time foes

1), virtually all (99%) of the 2428 returns of the 9220 adults tagged in the Roanoke River during the springs of 1959-77, occurred within the Albemarle Sound estuary.

Effect of demography on spatial distribution: movement patterns of the Albemarle Sound--Roanoke River stock of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in relation to their recovery

North Carolina is only about 20 miles from the proposed uranium mine and residents, public officials and lawmakers there worry that a catastrophic release of radioactive waste could poison Kerr Lake, the drinking water source for more than 118,000 North Carolinians, as well as contaminate the fishing- and recreation-rich Roanoke River as far east as Pamlico Sound.

Buried treasure or hidden threat?

Plymouth Wood Treating Plant site is an active wood pulp mill located near the confluence of Welch Creek and the Roanoke River.

EPA to start work at Weyerhaeuser site

He jumped off a bridge into the Roanoke River, not far from where he often had fished with his father and later with his own son.

Falsely accused: it's the worst thing that can happen to an educator. So how do you avoid it?

A few exceptions are the Cape Fear River, Roanoke River, Neuse River and Sandhills areas, where populations are relatively stable," he says.

Southeast: numbers are high throughout the region, with many states forecasting a solid year

Roanoke, Virginia, sits at the head-waters of three major water systems: the New River on one side of the watershed flows into the Mississippi River, the Roanoke River flows to the Outer Banks, and the Upper James River flows to Chesapeake Bay.

A flood of concern in Roanoke: after an urban ecosystem analysis, officials agree increasing tree cover is the best way to alleviate long-standing problems

When the nearby Roanoke River suffered a massive fish kill, the faculty and students of Jamesville (North Carolina) High School worked together to develop curriculum-related service-learning strategies aimed at cleaning up the river.

The Reaffirmation of the Declaration of Principles

Sancho was a ferryman who operated his master's ferry on the Roanoke River, quite a distance from Amelia County, where his master lived.