"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

When officials from Britain arrived to help the colonists, they were surprised to find that there was nobody there, and it ...

Reaching the abandoned settlement, the governor spotted a post on which “in fair capital letters was graven CROATOAN without any cross or sign of distress.” Yet the post itself was part of a ...

Stories have taken root that the colonists, who left no clear trace aside from the word “Croatoan” carved on a tree, survived somewhere on the mainland, died in conflict with Native Americans ...

The sole clue to the settlers’ fate was a post carved with the word “Croatoan,” then the name of Hatteras Island and its native inhabitants, who had been on friendly terms with the English.

The only clue the colony left behind was the word "Croatoan" carved into a wooden post, which may have referred to nearby Croatoan Island. Creative Commons “American Horror Story” Season 6 has ...

“The truth of the Croatoan was lost in order to prop up a racist myth designed to hide assimilation… In 1937 the lost colony play was created and North Carolina was still 30 years away from ...

CROATOAN. The word was found written on a fencepost in the lost colony of Roanoke, and it still intrigues us after 425 years. But this 16th century settlement is more than a legend. It’s also ...

Scott Dawson claims to have found “hammerscale,” a byproduct of iron forging, on Hatteras Island, the home of the indigineous Croatoan people, suggesting the colony members lived alongside them.

Dawson and his wife, Maggie, formed the Croatoan Archaeological Society when the digs began. Mark Horton, a professor and archaeologist from England’s University of Bristol leads the project.