Roanoke island

An artifact found 20 years ago turns out to not be what archaeologists thought

It looks like some new clues, pottery shards, have turned up in the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke.

One of American history’s enduring mysteries is The Lost Colony of Roanoke. Established in 1585 as an English attempt to create a permanent settlement in North America, Roanoke was found abandoned by 1590. There have been many theories to explain what happened to the missing colonists, but there hasn’t been…

Ongoing excavations at two sites in North Carolina have yielded new clues about what may have happened to the English settlers who vanished from Roanoke Island around 1590.

In times of cultural failure and upheaval, there are usually two kinds of extremists. Those who abandon any established order as a thing beyond redemption, and those who remain within the system, hoping they can reform it. New England was settled by both sorts in turn — by Separatists and by Puritans. Let’s talk about ...

Raleigh's failed colony at Roanoke Island NC, 1587.

Roanoke Island, 12 mi (19 km) long and 3 mi (4.8 km) wide, NE N.C., off the Atlantic coast between Croatan (W) and Roanoke (E) sounds in the Outer Banks [1]. Manteo is the chief town, and tourism and fishing are the principal industries.

Roanoke Island

Statue of Virginia Dare at Elizabethan Gardens - Roanoke Island, NC -snuck in and played flashlight tag here many times!!

Under a blistering sun, Nicholas M. Luccketti swatted at mosquitoes as he watched his archaeology team at work in a shallow pit on a hillside above the shimmering waters of Albemarle Sound. On a table in the shade, a pile of plastic bags filled with artifacts was growing. Fragments of earthenware and pottery. A mashed metal rivet. A piece of a hand-wrought nail.

Has the mystery of the lost Roanoke colony been solved? A local expert appears to have dug up compelling evidence! The disappearance of 115 people in the

Explore the oldest mystery of colonial America.

You can find Roanoke Island events happening almost every night in the summer months, and they stay fairly constant during the other seasons as well. Roanoke

Newer evidence places the Lost Colonists in Bertie County. Best evidence suggests they traveled a short distance to 42-mile long Hatteras Island. Their descendants are being DNA tested now.

In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh established an English colony on an island in what is today the state of North Carolina. After a slow start, over 100 people moved to the island to start a new life and establish this English outpost at the edge of the new world. When a ship returned to the colony in 1590, what they found shocked them and began a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Learn more about the Lost Colony of Roanoke and the puzzle that still challenges historians.

Croatoan, unexplained letters found in 1590 carved on a tree on Roanoke Island off North Carolina by Governor John White when he returned to the colony from England and discovered the colonists gone. White took the letters to mean that the settlers had moved to Croatoan Island some 50 miles away, but no trace of them was ever found.

THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE: In 1587, a group of 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children settled in the fort at Roanoke Island ... only to vanish without a trace a mere three years later. #unsolved #mysteries

Archaeologists believe they have located a 'survivors camp' on Hatteras Island where settlers of the Lost Colony of Roanoke moved and integrated with the Croatoan tribe.

Experience nature and rich history while discovering Roanoke Island. Here are our favorite things to do when you visit Roanoke Island, NC.

A real living history farm. Visit Island Farm on Roanoke Island. Farm animals, live blacksmithing, a historic home - learn Outer Banks history.