The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

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 ...

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 ...

In the Elizabethan era, Sir Walter Raleigh was a true Renaissance man ... An exploratory expedition in 1584 found that Roanoke Island, part of the barrier islands of North Carolina’s Outer ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A mysterious painting hidden for centuries at the Tower of London may be a self-portrait of the famous adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh ... the “lost colony” at Roanoke. A favorite courtier ...

It all began back in 1587, 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 ...

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