Croatoan was jotted down in in the journal of Amelia Earnhart after she disappeared in 1937. Robber Black Bart etched the word into his prison cell before he was released. Upon his dismissal, he ...

By the mid- to late 17th century the new global economy encompassed even isolated Croatoan Island. “I would never argue that they all end up here,” Horton says of the colonists.

New research by Mark Horton and Scott Dawson suggests Roanoke Colony settlers assimilated with Native Americans, supported by archaeological evidence of English iron-working on Hatteras Island.

A group of over 100 colonists settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587, led by Sir Walter Raleigh. John White, the governor of the colony, returned to England for supplies in 1587.

The only clue left behind was the word “Croatoan,” the former name of what is now Hatteras Island, carved into a post. There are many theories about what became of Roanoke, none of which are ...

The mystery of Roanoke Island began in 1590 when John White, the colony’s governor, returned to the island after a three-year absence in 1590 to find it deserted and the word “Croatoan ...

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 ...

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.

When White finally got back to Roanoke Island on Aug. 18, 1590, he found the colony abandoned — the only clues to the colonists' fate being the words CROATOAN carved on a palisade post and CRO ...

This sparked a theory that the settlers fled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, which was then known as Croatoan Island. However, in 1937, ...

This sparked a theory that the settlers fled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, which was then known as Croatoan Island. However, in 1937, ...