Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

“Possibly,” said Jamestown Rediscovery President and First Colony board member James Horn in a statement, “a small group went to Croatoan Island in the fall or winter of 1587 to wait for ...

William Kelso, an archaeologist who led the effort to uncover the 1607 Jamestown fort, ... Luccketti doubts that large numbers of Roanoke colonists descended on Croatoan, ...

Before the Revolution, even before Jamestown, an English colony was established in what is now North Carolina. ... with the word CROATOAN carved into it (the name of a nearby indigenous tribe).

Related: Jamestown colonists killed and ate the dogs of Indigenous Americans ... "They wrote exactly where they were going: to Croatoan." But not everyone is convinced by the piles of hammer scale.

It’s the Fourth of July, the perfect time to reconsider just who sparked the 13 Colonies that launched our United States. No — it wasn’t the English who arrived in 1607 at Jamestown or the ...

MANTEO, N.C. (AP) — To get their start on a weeklong tour of early American historical sites, students from the Norfolk Collegiate School skipped Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown in their ...

It was first colonized in 1585, 21 years before Jamestown, ... When White returned, he saw the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree. White also found a remaining skeleton.

MANTEO - To get their start on a weeklong tour of early American historical sites, the group of rising fourth-graders from Virginia skipped Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown in their home state ...

Scott Dawson, the aforementioned author, museum proprietor, and president of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, did not find the buildings or the bodies that once populated the colony at Roanoke.