As the men climbed a sandy bank, they encountered a tree with the carved letters ... Searchers found the word “CROATOAN” carved on a post—a possible clue to the colonists’ intended ...
Stock image: Illustration depicts John White (c. 1540 - c1593) and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590. Stock image ...