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Roanoke motel prepares for new life after renovations
It’s a taste of the 1950s... today. The Colony House Motor Lodge is preparing for a grand re-opening in July, after ownership ...
An Author Claims the Lost Colony of Roanoke Was Never Actually Lost—and He Can Prove It
The ‘amateur archaeologist’ says he’s discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from ...
The Outer Banks Voice20h
The Lost Colony’s 88th season opens on a rainy night on Roanoke Island
Outer Banks Voice The first drops started to fall from a heavy sky as audience members on Thursday night settled into their seats at Waterside Theatre for Opening Night of the ...
For 88th season, ‘The Lost Colony’ will delve into OBX unsolved mystery
To call “The Lost Colony” a hit is a major understatement. On May 29, the outdoor, symphonic drama opens its 88th anniversary ...
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It Was America’s First English Colony. Then It Was Gone.
“She was from Roanoke Island.” Her name was Virginia Dare Bowser Tillet. Leaving Morrison’s house, it occurs to me that our 400-year-old obsession with the Lost Colony isn’t just about ...
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First Prints of Native American life come home to Outer Banks History Center
Outer Banks Voice Telling a gathering at the Outer Banks History (OBHC) Center that the 1590 Theodore DeBry prints of artist John White’s depictions of Native American society “are ...
The Roanoke Times8d
Next year marks 400 years since first African slaves arrived in Virginia
The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved ...