The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th ... 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists ...

and others as they find a tree into which the word "CROATOAN" had been carved on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1590. Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images An examination of the map by ...

Appointed governor of the fledgling Roanoke colony ... Governor John White’s 1585 map of the area from today’s Cape Henry, Virginia, to Cape Lookout, North Carolina, was remarkably accurate.

MANTEO, N.C. — Archaeologists say an unearthed copper earring likely came from European explorers who made up part of the "Lost Colony" in modern-day Roanoke Island, North Carolina. The ...

North Carolina’s First Colony Foundation ... which the foundation believes could have only belonged to the Roanoke refugees. The map was painted by John White between 1585 and 1586.