The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that ... Three years had passed since the governor had set out from the first English settlement in the New World on what was to be a brief ...

America's longest-running outdoor symphonic drama THE LOST COLONY can now be witnessed through an exclusive live-capture ...

Wikimedia CommonsJohn White’s depiction of his 1590 expedition to Roanoke Island, when he discovered ... tried to establish the first permanent English colony in North America in 1585.

The area is split into three regions, according to the Visitors Bureau: the Northern Beaches, Roanoke ... The island is most often recognized as the last known location of the Lost Colony, a ...

Married to Ananias Dare, Eleanor gave birth to Virginia—the first English child born in the New World—shortly after the English colonists landed on Roanoke Island. Did Governor John White’s ...

Located in Manteo, the Roanoke Island Festival Park takes visitors back in time to the 1500s and the settlement of Roanoke. Inside the park, you can board the replica Elizabeth II ship ...