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 ...

In 1587, English colonizers led by John White landed on Roanoke Island. They were the second attempt at forming a settlement; ...

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 ...

Just outside North Carolina's Outer Banks is Roanoke Island, the scene of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in U.S. history: the disappearance of an entire colony of English settlers.

the play tells the story of the first English colonies in North America on Roanoke Island. More than 120 actors, technicians, designers and volunteers work together to bring The Lost Colony story ...