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===Tourism and advertising=== [[File:Virginia Dare Flavoring Extracts label.jpeg|thumb|Virginia Dare Flavoring Extracts]] Virginia Dare's name has become a [[tourist attraction]] for North Carolina. Many locations are named after her, including [[Dare County, North Carolina|Dare County]], North Carolina; the Virginia Dare Trail, a section of [[North Carolina Highway 12|NC 12]]; [[Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge]], the second, newest, and widest bridge spanning the [[Croatan Sound]] connecting [[Roanoke Island]] to [[Manns Harbor, North Carolina|Manns Harbor]], carrying [[U.S. Route 64|US 64]]. Residents of [[Roanoke Island]] celebrate Virginia Dare's birthday each year with an [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] [[Renaissance fair]]. A statue of Virginia as a grown woman, nude and wrapped in a fishnet,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hampton |first1=Jeff |title=Virginia Dare statue was shipwrecked, mocked and nearly lost in a fire. Now, it's revered |url=https://pilotonline.com/news/local/history/article_e05529e6-2c3b-5556-9383-22711632b108.html |access-date=August 5, 2018 |publisher=The Virginian Pilot |date=August 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>[https://www.ncpedia.org/media/virginia-dare-statue rel="nofollow" Photograph of the statue at NCpedia.]</ref> is on display in the Elizabethan Gardens on the island.<ref name="Patterson"/> At [[Smith Mountain Lake]], a reservoir in Virginia created by damming the [[Roanoke River]], there is an active [[Boat tour|tour boat]] named Virginia Dare. Virginia Dare's name has also been used to sell a number of products. Virginia Dare was the name of the first commercial wine to sell after the repeal of [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] in 1933.<ref>{{cite web |last=Boyd |first=Gerald D. |url=http://www.winereviewonline.com/wine_lore.cfm |title=Wine Lore |publisher=Wine Review Online |date=October 11, 2005 |access-date=March 22, 2012 |archive-date=March 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318104842/http://www.winereviewonline.com/wine_lore.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Virginia Dare Extract Company, a maker of vanilla products, sells its products with a symbol of Virginia as a fresh-faced, blonde girl wearing a white ruffled [[mob cap]]. The company's website notes that Virginia Dare symbolizes "wholesomeness and purity".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginiadare.com |title=Virginia Dare Extract Company |publisher=Virginiadare.com |access-date=March 22, 2012}}</ref> In [[Rancho Cucamonga, California|Rancho Cucamonga]], California, a now-defunct winery called Virginia Dare is on the corner of Haven Avenue and Foothill Boulevard ([[U.S. Route 66]]).
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