When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...
The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.
As the men climbed a sandy bank, they encountered a tree with the carved letters ... Searchers found the word “CROATOAN” carved on a post—a possible clue to the colonists’ intended ...