And there is a clear precedent. In 1586, when food ran perilously short for members of the first Roanoke colony, its leader dispersed his hundred settlers across the region, including to Croatoan ...

For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North ...

The mystery of "The Lost Colony" of Roanoke has been a centerpiece of North Carolina history and lore for generations, but ...

To call “The Lost Colony” a hit is a major understatement. On May 29, the outdoor, symphonic drama opens its 88th anniversary ...

The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from ...

Wingina, leader of several local villages ... Spanish ship they’d raided en route to Roanoke. 12. Clues to the Roanoke colony’s possible fate emerged from witnesses in another English colony.

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 mystery of the fate that befell one of America's first English colonies has been ended – as experts uncover 'smoking gun evidence' revealing what really happened to these early settlers ...

The group asks its leader, John White, to return to England for necessities ... They become known simply as The Lost Colony of Roanoke. “It’s a mystery that may never be solved,” Park Guide Lauren ...

Yet, fate had other plans. Sometime between the colony’s founding in 1587 and the return of its leader, John White, in 1590, the settlement on Roanoke Island disappeared without a trace.

The latter issue forced Gov. John White, the leader of the colony on the north end of Roanoke Island, to leave the settlers for England to secure the needed items. But the mother country was ...