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.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Has the Lost Colony of settlers been found? In 1585, explorer John White traveled to Roanoke Island, and made a map and other drawings of the island. In 1587, a colony of 116 ...

After a lapse of nearly 30 years, archaeological excavations now are underway on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in search of a scientific laboratory created during the 1585 expedition to the New ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Last year the map - drawn in 1585 by John White ... of what may have been intended as the colony's capital near Roanoke Island. Around 70 miles away from the island, at the end of Albemarle ...

DARE COUNTY, N.C. - Archaeologists working on Roanoke Island have discovered shards of ... medicine jar that archaeologists found in June. A 1585 mission that only lasted 11 months was made ...

were members of Sir Walter Raleigh’s first supported exploration in 1585 that landed and surveyed Roanoke Island. Gans did metallurgical work, while Harriot scrutinized the area’s natural ...