The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a 16th-century "Lost Colony." ...

As the tragic legend goes, British colonists who were settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587 disappeared at some ...

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.

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

The tribe received its name from the nearby island, Croatoan, which is now Hatteras Island. Like many of the natives living in America when settlers arrived, they fell victim to infectious disease ...

A new study suggests the Lost Colony of Roanoke assimilated with Native Americans, backed by iron flakes found on Hatteras ...

Today, that place is called Buxton and the villages that border it to the south on Hatteras. Home to the Croatoan tribe for more than a thousand years, it’s a place Dawson knows well.

The Croatoan were a small Native American tribe located in Dare County, North Carolina, in the 16th century. Some claimed the British settlers abandoned their station and set camp closer to the ...

It either referred to Croatoan Island, which is now called Hatteras Island, or the Croatoan Indians. The mystery has haunted Americans and Brits for the past four centuries, with several ...

It's a mystery that has intrigued Americans for centuries: What happened to the lost colonists of North Carolina's Roanoke Island? (See "America's Lost Colony.". The settlers, who arrived in 1587 ...

They've wondered whether the Croatoan tribe killed the settlers or whether the English moved elsewhere, perhaps to live with members of the Croatoan tribe on what is now called Hatteras Island.