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==History==
Once the hunting and fishing grounds of the [[Miami people|Miami Indians]], Roanoke became a prosperous commercial center in the mid-19th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://discoverroanoke.org/about-roanoke/history|title=History|website=Discover Roanoke|access-date=November 14, 2017}}</ref> Kiilhsoohkwa (meaning "sun-woman"), the granddaughter of [[Little Turtle|Chief Little Turtle]], lived in Roanoke and was known by locals as “the last of the Miami tribe.” <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.in.gov/history/markers/489.htm|title=Kiilhsoohkwa (Kilsoquah) Historical Marker|date=2005|website=Indiana Historical Bureau}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://roanoke.lib.in.us/history/kilsoquah/|title=Kilsoquah|website=Roanoke Public Library|date=October 9, 2013 }}</ref>

Roanoke had its start in about 1848, soon after the building of the [[Wabash and Erie Canal]] through that territory.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028803173|title=History of Huntington County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present|publisher=Brant & Fuller|year=1887|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028803173/page/n609 642]}}</ref> The completion of the canal through Jackson Township enticed European-American settlers to the area. In the wake of the canal's completion, the town became an important shipping point in the region and a source of supplies for neighboring towns in Allen, Huntington, and Whitley counties.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofhunting00slwa|title=History of Huntington County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc., Together with a Short History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana|publisher=Brant & Fuller, Chicago; Walsworth Publishing Company, Inc.|others=Huntington County Historical Society; Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center; Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center|year=1887}}</ref> One of the earliest settlers in the area was Jarred Darrow who arrived in 1837. Between 1840 and 1847 the area's population swelled and included a large number of persons belonging to the United Brethren Church, the Methodist Church, and the Lutheran Church.<ref name=":0" /> Roanoke was incorporated as a town in 1874.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLZwAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA165|title=History of Huntington County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests|last=Bash|first=Frank Sumner|publisher=Unigraphic|year=1914|page=165}}</ref> The town was named after [[Roanoke, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Dept. of English and Journalism |title=Indiana names, v.1-3|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000054436682;view=1up;seq=29|year=1970–1972|publisher=Indiana State University|page=15}}</ref>