3. The first English attempt at living on Roanoke Island was a failure. Upon their arrival in June 1585, the settlers realized that Barlowe and company had oversold the promise of the territory.

a former Colonial Williamsburg archaeologist who excavated at Roanoke Island in the 1990s. Hume met with Horton and Luccketti last month to discuss their finds. Governor John White’s 1585 map of ...

Wikimedia CommonsJohn White’s depiction of his 1590 expedition to Roanoke Island, when he discovered ... English colony in North America in 1585. When his first attempt ended in failure, Raleigh ...

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

A second group, which arrived in 1585, was charged with a ... has been that the colonists abandoned Roanoke and traveled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, which was then known as Croatoan Island.

See more › The group departed in May, but after a stop on Roanoke Island in July to look for the few men believed to have remained from the 1585 expedition, the hired ship captain refused to take ...

after suddenly abandoning the Roanoke settlement in 1585, had simply decamped for nearby Hatteras Island and begun living alongside the Croatoan Native American tribe. During a recent speech at ...

The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th century to establish an English foothold in the New World, Popular Mechanics ...

Archaeologists found the earring at Roanoke Island's Elizabethan Gardens ... during the 1584 visit by Amadas and Barlowe or the 1585 military outpost under Ralph Lane. Sir Walter Raleigh ...

Archaeologists found the earring at Roanoke Island's Elizabethan Gardens ... during the 1584 visit by Amadas and Barlowe or the 1585 military outpost under Ralph Lane. Sir Walter Raleigh ...