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

Amateur Archaeologist Claims He Knows What Happened to the Members of the Lost Colony of Roanoke The 'Lost Colony of Roanoke' ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Design Pics Editorial//Getty Images 1845 illustration depicting colonist John White discovering the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590 Scott ...