"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

For more than 400 years, the mystery of how 118 colonists just up and disappeared from Roanoke Island in what is now North ...

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost ...

The plume from Roanoke ... of the colony were there expecting my return out of England,” he wrote later. Three years had passed since the governor had set out from the first English settlement ...

and children abandoned on Roanoke in 1587. When the colony’s governor, John White, returned from a three-year journey back to England in 1590, all traces of the settlement and its inhabitants ...

What happened to the group of colonists who vanished while trying to start England’s first settlement in North America ... They become known simply as The Lost Colony of Roanoke. “It’s a mystery that ...

More than a hundred men, women, and children sailed from England to North Carolina in 1587 to build a new settlement ... miles west of Roanoke Island, a team from the First Colony Foundation ...

The basic beats of the story behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke go something ... Grenville had been accumulating supplies for the Roanoke settlement and set out for the island in April 1586.

By Alan Yuhas In 1590, the would-be governor of a colony meant to be one of England ... of what happened to those settlers, who landed on Roanoke Island, off the coast of modern North Carolina ...

So the people in the Roanoke Island settlement in what’s now North Carolina became famous as the Lost Colony, an enduring mystery that inspired the first and longest running outdoor symphonic ...