The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that ... Three years had passed since the governor had set out from the first English settlement in the New World on what was to be a brief ...

Wikimedia CommonsJohn White’s depiction of his 1590 expedition to Roanoke Island, when he discovered ... tried to establish the first permanent English colony in North America in 1585.

the play tells the story of the first English colonies in North America on Roanoke Island. More than 120 actors, technicians, designers and volunteers work together to bring The Lost Colony story ...

Just outside North Carolina's Outer Banks is Roanoke Island, the scene of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in U.S. history: the disappearance of an entire colony of English settlers.

Married to Ananias Dare, Eleanor gave birth to Virginia—the first English child born in the New World—shortly after the English colonists landed on Roanoke Island. Did Governor John White’s ...

Located in Manteo, the Roanoke Island Festival Park takes visitors back in time to the 1500s and the settlement of Roanoke. Inside the park, you can board the replica Elizabeth II ship ...

The area is split into three regions, according to the Visitors Bureau: the Northern Beaches, Roanoke ... The island is most often recognized as the last known location of the Lost Colony, a ...