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 ...

A group of over 100 colonists settled on North Carolina's Roanoke Island in 1587, led by Sir Walter Raleigh. John White, the governor of the colony, returned to England for supplies in 1587.

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

She also bestowed a knighthood on Raleigh and gave him additional resources and rights to set up a permanent colony on Roanoke Island ... have been dire had not Sir Francis Drake happened to ...

Scientists will dig for clues about the Lost Colony's disappearance Sir Walter Raleigh, a famed English ... was tasked with establishing a colony on Roanoke Island as England was trying to expand ...