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

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American ... which was backed by Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh, arrived on the island ...

on Roanoke Island. The man that site is named for is Sir Walter Raleigh, the English explorer, even though Raleigh himself never set foot on the land. A favorite in the court of Queen Elizabeth I ...

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 ...

Scientific test results show a copper earring unearthed by First Colony Foundation archaeologists at Roanoke Island’s Elizabethan Gardens was almost certainly traded, or gifted, to local Native ...

“The earliest mention of Cape Feare came from Richard Grenville, Sir Walter Raleigh's cousin, who led the second voyage of English colonists to Roanoke Island in what was then Virginia ...

The Boyhood of Raleigh, 1871 Whilst details of his early life ... ‘The Lost Colony’. Sir Walter Raleghi’s 1590 Expedition to Roanoke Island to find the Lost Colony uncovered ‘Croatoan’ carved on a ...

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 ...

Since 1895, historians and archaeologists have endeavored to locate the fort and village sites of Raleigh’s 1585 and 1587 colonies on Roanoke Island and, more recently, where the 1587 “lost ...