Now the city and its consultant have completed a comprehensive study of the Roanoke River floodplain, and FEMA has approved new floodplain maps that can help homeowners in the city understand ...

Roanoke’s updated Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) floodplain maps have been approved and a little more than half of total properties were unaffected by the new maps, according to a ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American ... the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...

suggesting the lost colonists of Roanoke went “native”. In 2012, the First Colony Foundation asked the British Museum to take a closer look at a 16th-century map drawn by Governor White.

Every American school kid learns the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. But could its fate have been hiding in plain sight all along, behind some patches on a map? It’s a major clue that could ...

In 1585, the English settlers reached the New World and established a colony on the island of Roanoke, in what is now ... secret message on a centuries-old map, a team from the First Colony ...

The map showing a fort that could lead to the lost colony of Roanoke British Museum A secret clue on a 400-year-old map might solve the long-standing mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke.