The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the United States’ most enduring mysteries. ... a series of 48 carved stones which revealed that Virginia Dare and her father were killed by natives in 1591.

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared between 1587 and 1590 in North Carolina.

The first, in 1584, was a reconnaissance mission. The following year an all-male contingent—with White as expedition artist—defied Spanish claims to North America and arrived on Roanoke hoping ...

To call “The Lost Colony” a hit is a major understatement. On May 29, the outdoor, symphonic drama opens its 88th anniversary season at Waterside Theatre in Manteo, on North Carolina’s Outer ...

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

A team of researchers claimed to have made significant strides in solving one of America’s oldest mysteries — the fate of the ...

Virginians in central and eastern Virginia have been celebrating the 1775 campaign of the colony’s last royal governor, John Murray, the 4th Earl of Dunmore. Here’s a book that tells you ...

Seeking a better life, nearly 400 Central Virginia residents left the United States and sailed with their families for Africa between 1829 and 1865. 1800s saw exodus from central Virginia to ...

The mysterious lost colony of Roanoke In 1587, ... In the late 16th century, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to establish a colony in present-day North Virginia at the behest of Queen Elizabeth I. After ...