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North Carolina Ghost Stories and Legends: Virginia Dare, the White Doe

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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 white doe. How this legend may have developed is explained, as well as how Virginia Dare's name was used in advertising a North Carolina wine.

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