Here are 13 facts about the origins and demise of Roanoke Island’s hapless colony—and several theories about where its inhabitants may have ended up. 1. Sir Walter Raleigh kickstarted the ...

It was first colonized in 1585, 21 years before Jamestown, Virginia, which is widely regarded as the first British successful colony in the United States. Roanoke was abandoned the next year, but ...

The first, in 1584, was a reconnaissance mission. The following year an all-male contingent—with White as expedition artist—defied Spanish claims to North America and arrived on Roanoke hoping ...

Whatever happened to the lost colonists of Roanoke, Virginia? The answer to one of America’s longest and most puzzling questions is now in a new book. In “The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island ...

The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the United States’ most enduring mysteries. ... a series of 48 carved stones which revealed that Virginia Dare and her father were killed by natives in 1591.

Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says. ... Va. “They’re all interfighting, and these different groups are trying to use the English against one another,” she said.