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Lost Colony Center for Science and Research: Current Research
This website presents recent research undertaken to investigate what may have happened to the Roanoke Colony. Other areas of the site provide maps, photos, archaeological discoveries, news articles, and a list of the people traveling...
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Ncdcr: Birth of a Colony: North Carolina: The Roanoke Voyages, 1584 1590 [Pdf]
This is a teaching guide that accompanies the third section of the UNC-TV film, Birth of a Colony: North Carolina. This section looks at the history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.
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National Park Service: Fort Raleigh: Search for the Lost Colony
The history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island is outlined as well as attempts that were made over the ensuing years to locate it, and ways that the colony was remembered.
New York Times
New York Times: The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?
[Free Registration/Login Required] The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke has gripped imaginations for centuries. Now archaeology may be able to provide answers before long. This article describes the history of the...
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Lost Colony Center for Science and Research: Lost Colony Dna Project
Explains the Lost Colony DNA Project which is attempting to find genetic links between people living today and the lost colonists of Roanoke Island. Also provides a list of family names of colonists and of descendant families that may be...
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Lost Colony Center for Science and Research: The Lost Colony of Roanoke [Pdf]
A fascinating overview of the history of the colonists of Roanoke Island and the theories about what may have happened to them.
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Wall Street Journal: Is This Stone Linked to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
The Dare Stones have long been a thorn in the mystery surrounding the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. The first stone was found in 1937 and had an inscription that was originally thought to have been carved by Eleanor Dare, daughter of...
Virginia History Series
Roanoke Voyages and Sir Walter Raleigh's "Virginia" (1584 1603) [Pdf]
A slideshow explaining the history of Sir Walter Raleigh's expeditions to the New World, beginning with a 1578 voyage with his half-brother on a search for the Northwest Passage, followed by several expeditions to try to establish a...
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North Carolina History Project: Roanoke Island
Describes the three expeditions organized by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish an English colony on Roanoke Island. The last group of colonists who settled there in 1587 disappeared and their fate is still not known for certain.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony: Fact and Legend
Summarizes the history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island and the legend of Virginia Dare that emerged later. She was the first English child born in the New World.
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North Carolina History Project: Virginia Dare (1587 ?)
Tells the story of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World. She was the granddaughter of John White, Governor of the colony established on Roanoke Island in 1587. While White was on a trip to England to replenish the...
University of North Carolina
Carolina Alumni Review: Where the Colony Went: This Could Be a Big Clue
This article describes how the patches on a map drawn by John White, Governor of the lost Roanoke Colony, came to inspire someone's curiosity and were discovered to hide a location that the colony may have relocated to. This map is known...
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Totally History: Virginia Dare
Explains the history of the lost Roanoke Colony and the various theories about what may have happened to the colonists. Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World, yet no one knows what eventually happened to her.
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National Park Service: Fort Raleigh: Roanoke Revisited Unit 5: Lost Colony of 1587
A summary of the history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, followed by links to more extensive information.
National Center for Families Learning
Ncfl: Wonderopolis: Wonder of the Day #1324: What Happened to the Lost Colony?
A video and article about the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Has an audio feature that highlights text as the article is read aloud. As well, individual highlighted words link to pop-up definitions and are used in a word definition game. [1:59]
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First Colony Foundation: The Roanoke Colonies
The First Colony Foundation is an organization that conducts research into the English colonies that Sir Walter Raleigh sought to establish on Roanoke Island in North Carolina. This page presents a history of what is known about the...
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The Independent: Carolina's Lost Colony
The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island has endured over the centuries. A clue has, until recently, lain hidden in a map created by John White that is housed in the British Museum. Archaeologists began digging...
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Lost Colony: England's Expeditions to the New World 1584 1590
A short history of the attempt to establish a British colony on Roanoke Island which ended with the mysterious disappearance of the colonists.
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Shadowlands: The Lost Colony of Roanoke, 1588
Presents five popular theories of what may have happened to the colonists at Roanoke. Useful as a starting point.
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North Carolina Ghost Stories and Legends: Virginia Dare, the White Doe
Describes the establishment of the Roanoke Island Colony and the story of Virginia Dare, the first English person born in the New World. After the colonists vanished, a legend developed around Virginia Dare, that she would appear as a...