Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

“Possibly,” said Jamestown Rediscovery President and First Colony board member James Horn in a statement, “a small group went to Croatoan Island in the fall or winter of 1587 to wait for ...

or later trade goods obtained from Jamestown. Luccketti doubts that large numbers of Roanoke colonists descended on Croatoan, in part because environmental evidence indicates that rainfall was ...

Before the Revolution, even before Jamestown, an English colony was established ... A single palisade remained, with the word CROATOAN carved into it (the name of a nearby indigenous tribe).

White believed that the settlers had moved to Croatoan, an island only 50 miles ... link in the chain binding England with North America; Jamestown and Plymouth were mere sequels.

When White returned, he saw the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree ... John Smith, who served as a leader of Jamestown Colony, said that the colonists were killed en masse by Powhatan ...

Probably the best-known Native American of that time was Manteo of the Croatoan tribe ... group of Englishmen some 20 years later landed at Jamestown Island in a land also called Virginia.