In 1587, a man by the name John White “led more than 100 men, women, and children in the first attempt to found a permanent English colony in the New World.”
The group, John White led, settled on Roanoke Island. When John White arrived at Roanoke on August 18 in 1590 he found that the colony has been abandoned and looted there was no trace of the settlers anywhere. “The word “Croatoan” had been carved on a post and the letters “CRO” scratched into a tree trunk.” Two teams of archeologists think they have recovered new pieces of evidence of what might have happened to the Lost Colony.
When John White was approached by Sir Walter Raleigh, who was governor of the Roanoke Colony he returned to England to get more supplies for the island. He
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Hatteras Island, which long ago was a home to a Native American tribe of the same name. People think they might have tried to go back to England, by themselves and maybe have gotten lost at sea or got killed by hostile Spaniards who came north from their own land that was in Florida. One theory that people have made is that the settlers were being absorbed into “friendly Native American Tribes” into which is now North Carolina. Two archeologist teams have split up to try and find remains of the colony. “One team is searching for a site near Cape Creek which is located on Hatteras Island, Hatteras Island is around 50 miles southeast of the Roanoke Island settlement. The other team is based on a settlement over on Mainland wondering if any of the colony started to explore or if a ship came and got them.
This colony history has been turned into a legend. The “legend” of Roanoke Island has been passed down for years and years since 1590 when a group of over 120 English settlers mysteriously vanished while John White sailed back to England. In 1587 another colony was founded on Roanoke and that’s when Virginia Dare { the first baby born to English parents in North America, was