When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th century to establish an English foothold in the New World, Popular Mechanics ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

Dare County is pleased to announce that a new plaque designating Roanoke Island as the first Purple Heart Island was ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that some of the colony were there expecting my return out of England,” he wrote later. Three years had passed since the governor had set out ...

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 ...

Located in Manteo, the Roanoke Island Festival Park takes visitors back in time to the 1500s and the settlement of Roanoke. Inside the park, you can board the replica Elizabeth II ship ...