Dare County is pleased to announce that a new plaque designating Roanoke Island as the first Purple Heart Island was installed at the Dare County Veterans Memorial site in Manteo (300 Queen ...

Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is now North ... Carolina, Governor John White watched with elation as a column of smoke rose into the summer dusk. The plume from Roanoke ...

The Outer Banks are a string of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina that run 120 miles from the Virginia border to Ocracoke Island. A popular vacation destination, Southerners can’t get ...