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.

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

or later trade goods obtained from Jamestown. Luccketti doubts that large numbers of Roanoke colonists descended on Croatoan, in part because environmental evidence indicates that rainfall was ...

“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 ...

Before the Revolution, even before Jamestown, an English colony was established ... A single palisade remained, with the word CROATOAN carved into it (the name of a nearby indigenous tribe).

The only clue to their whereabouts were the initials CRO carved on a tree and CROATOAN carved on a wooden post. With English settlement at Jamestown in 1607, there were reports that the colonists had ...

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