Amadas and Barlowe were so impressed with the island and its location and adaptability for settlement that they convinced two of the Roanoke natives (willingly or not) to return to England with them. The presence of natives in the court of England no doubt impressed the monarch, Queen ...
The haunting story of a missing Roanoke settlement known as The Lost Colony began in 1587 when Sir Walter Raleigh made his second attempt at founding the first permanent English settlement in North America, after his first attempt had failed two years prior. The colony was led by Governor John...
The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County in present-day North Carolina. This was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century. The goal to establish a permanent English settlement in the Virginia Colony. Between 1585 and 1587, several groups ...
The origins of one of America’s oldest unsolved mysteries can be traced to August 1587, when a group of about 115 English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. Following an earlier, failed attempt at settlement on Roanoke two years earlier, these...
Roanoke Colony, an island in present-day North Carolina, was settled in 1584 by English colonists as the first attempt at a permanent settlement in North America. However, the settlers quickly ran into hardship caused by poor harvest, lack of materials, and difficult relations with Indigenous peo...
Discusses two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh and his associates to establish a settlement on Roanoke Island of North Carolina between 1584 and 1587. How one colony returned to England; the other disappeared; Later colonies survived, partly...
Explores the mystery of the settlers of Roanoke Island who disappeared some 400 years ago. Origin of the settlers; Speculations as to how they disappeared; Objects found by archeologists that would provide clues to the mystery of the settlers disappearance. INSET: The lost colony on Roanoke Island...
French Huguenots, who settled in the area a century later, noted that several members of the Tuscarora tribe, a friendly native group to the west of Roanoke, even had blond hair and blue eyes. Jamestown was the closest settlement, and there were no records of the Tuscaroras and those Briti...
Shoreline erosionFailure to find the site of the famous Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, may be linked to shoreline erosion. The shoreline in the vicinity of the settlement has eroded as much as a quarter of a mile during the last 400 years....
itself into a different Native American community. One team is excavating a site near Cape Creek on Hatteras Island, around 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of the Roanoke Island settlement, while the other is based on the mainland about 50 miles to the northwest of the Roanoke site. ...