In the Elizabethan era, Sir Walter ... queen, Raleigh sponsored the first attempt to found a permanent English settlement in the New World. An exploratory expedition in 1584 found that Roanoke ...

Sir Walter Raleigh, a famed English explorer and among Queen Elizabeth I's favorite subjects, was tasked with establishing a colony on Roanoke Island as England was trying to expand its reach ...

"If we were finding this evidence at Roanoke Island, which is the well-established site of Sir Walter Raleigh's colony, we would have no hesitation to say this is evidence of Sir Walter Raleigh's ...

Sir Walter was long dead before the City of Raleigh was established in 1792 as the state ... in the books alongside the mystery of Roanoke. "The only known site actually inhabited by the planters ...

when Sir Walter Raleigh financed the attempts of John White to establish a British colony on Roanoke Island, just off the coast of North Carolina. They landed that July and established themselves ...

The mystery surrounding the Lost Colony, Roanoke and Sir Walter Raleigh's early explorers is one that's fascinated generations of North Carolinians. The mystery surrounding the Lost Colony ...

Appointed governor of the fledgling Roanoke colony by Sir Walter Raleigh, White was returning from England with desperately needed supplies. But when he stepped ashore on August 18, 1590 ...

Queen Elizabeth I and famed explorer Sir Walter Raleigh had hoped the expedition ... may have been intended as the colony's capital near Roanoke Island, apparently drawn in invisible ink.

Sir Walter Raleigh was ... in the queen’s good favor, Raleigh sent three expeditions to the New World in the 1580s. Each explored or attempted to settle on Roanoke Island near present-day ...

Near the iconic and oft-relocated statue of Sir Walter Raleigh, men and women on the ... has to do with the colony that was started up in Roanoke,” said one gentleman on his way to the Duke ...

In 1607, when the English established their first permanent ... Geneology and DNA in Relation to Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony of Roanoke.” Journal of Genetic Geneology, 2009, https ...

He is, instead, a scholar of the explorer Sir Walter Raleigh and ... which researches Raleigh and his most spectacular failure, the lost colony at Roanoke, Lane became particularly interested ...