Roanoke Island is a little like a cross between Lewes, Del., and the "olde country" at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, only without the roller coasters. You have a quaint little village full of shops ...

On Aug. 18, 1587, on a coastal island called Roanoke in what is now North Carolina, a couple named Ananias and Eleanor Dare produced a daughter and named her Virginia, in honor of the colony where … ...

ROANOKE ISLAND: FOR A DAY NOT ON THE BEACH. June 1, 2003. The kids are sunburned and whining -- and so are you. You're tired of sand in the house and bathing suits that won't dry.

A group of archaeologists believe they have found clues that indicate that part of a group of colonists who went missing from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in the 1500s moved 60 miles east to a ...

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost colony" of Roanoke. Tiny flakes of rusted metal, called hammerscales, have ...

BUXTON, N.C. (AP) - The ground teems with evidence that John White’s Lost Colony came here. A few shovelfuls of earth in a school yard or private driveway can uncover relics dating to the late ...

Located in Manteo, the Roanoke Island Festival Park takes visitors back in time to the 1500s and the settlement of Roanoke. Inside the park, you can board the replica Elizabeth II ship, where kids ...

This season’s subtitle, My Roanoke Nightmare, is connected to the lost colony of Roanoke, a 1500s British settlement whose inhabitants disappeared without explanation.

A few shovelfuls of earth in a school yard or private driveway can uncover relics dating to the late 1500s, when English settlers landed on – and then mysteriously left – Roanoke Island 50 ...

This season's subtitle, My Roanoke Nightmare, is connected to the lost colony of Roanoke, a 1500s British settlement whose inhabitants disappeared without explanation.