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 ...

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 ...

Probably the best-known Native American of that time was Manteo of the Croatoan tribe, ... another group of Englishmen some 20 years later landed at Jamestown Island in a land also called Virginia.

With English settlement at Jamestown in 1607, there were reports that the colonists had moved inland, and some had been killed by the local Indians, but otherwise their fate remained unknown. The ...