When he arrived at Roanoke Island in 1590 he found “CROATOAN ... Sir Walter Raleigh sent three expeditions to the New World in 1584, 1585 and in 1587. The first two had more military purposes ...

A second group, which arrived in 1585, was charged with a ... has been that the colonists abandoned Roanoke and traveled 50 miles south to Hatteras Island, which was then known as Croatoan Island.

Archaeologists found the earring at Roanoke Island's Elizabethan Gardens ... during the 1584 visit by Amadas and Barlowe or the 1585 military outpost under Ralph Lane. Sir Walter Raleigh ...

Archaeologists found the earring at Roanoke Island's Elizabethan Gardens ... during the 1584 visit by Amadas and Barlowe or the 1585 military outpost under Ralph Lane. Sir Walter Raleigh ...

Back then, Croatoan was the original name of nearby Hatteras Island. So that discovery ... English colony in North America in 1585. When his first attempt ended in failure, Raleigh tried again two ...

The northern end of Roanoke Island was the original home of Algonquin Indians before the English colonists arrived. These original colonists were part of Sir Walter Raleigh’s doomed efforts to settle ...

a former Colonial Williamsburg archaeologist who excavated at Roanoke Island in the 1990s. Hume met with Horton and Luccketti last month to discuss their finds. Governor John White’s 1585 map of ...

However, much like the earlier failed effort under Governor Ralph Lane in 1585, White and his fellow colonists soon ... the first English child born in America—behind on Roanoke Island. By the time he ...