"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

When officials from Britain arrived to help the colonists, they were surprised to find that there was nobody there, and it ...

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.

So what does Croatoan mean? The word itself is not ... “In 1590, on the coast of what we now know as North Carolina, the entire colony of Roanoke—all 117 men, women, and children—died ...

CROATOAN. The word was found written on a fencepost in the lost colony of Roanoke, and it still intrigues us after 425 years. But this 16th century settlement is more than a legend. It’s also ...

To many people today, these are the most mysterious details from the story of Roanoke’s lost colony. To White, they didn’t seem all that mysterious. He couldn’t sail immediately to Croatoan ...

For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina has stumped historians ...

“The Indians of Roanoke, Croatoan, Secotan and other villages ... Dr. Maynor Lowery, who is Lumbee, added that the “lost colony” story is itself based on the incorrect premise “that ...

In 1586, when food ran perilously short for members of the first Roanoke colony, its leader dispersed his hundred settlers across the region, including to Croatoan, so they could forage—a tactic ...

It all began in 1587 when more than a hundred English colonists landed on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. This would have been the first permanent English settlement ...