(place) by VT_hawkeye Fri Jul 28 2000 at 21:26:48

Name of the town that became Roanoke, Virginia. Apparently Big Lick wasn't good enough a name for a big-time railroad junction in the late 1870's, so they renamed the city after the local river.

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