Roanoke Colony was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century to establish a permanent English settlement in the Virginia Colony.
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point of contention among historians is that John White is not listed among the 1585 colonists.: 259 White is known to have arrived atRoanoke with the...
the colonists had disappeared under unknown circumstances. It has come to be known as the Lost Colony, and the fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains...
named by English colonists after the Roanoke indigenous people who resided here for generations, at least 800 years prior to the arrival of the English in...
Street in the City of London. He, too, was part of the Roanoke expedition. Virginia Dare was one of two infants born to the colonists in 1587 and the only...
during the attack by one of Lane's men. This attack and crime doomed the Roanoke colony. Before the first English settlement on Roanoke Island, Philip Amadas...
was a colonistof the Roanoke Colony of 1587. He was the husband of Eleanor White, whom he married at St Bride's Church in London, and the father of Virginia...
or later), English composer Robert Wilkinson, an adult on the listofcolonistsatRoanoke Colony Robert Wilkinson (cartographer) (died 1825), 18th-century...
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site preserves the location ofRoanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the present-day United States. The site was...
found colonies on Roanoke island, part of modern-day North Carolina but then known as Virginia. Fernandes trained as a navigator in Spain at the famed Casa...
in 1585 to colonise Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He was knighted by the Queen in 1593. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, his...
"Lost Colony" ofRoanoke. Unsuccessful settlements were established under two different governors, and the final fate of the colonists remains unknown...
Mohegan of Connecticut, United States Chowanoke, formerly of North Carolina Carolina Algonquian Roanoke, formerly of North Carolina Croatan, formerly of North...
consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the...
Unfortunately for the colonistsatRoanoke, one year became three. The first delay came when Queen Elizabeth I ordered all vessels to remain at port for potential...
America. South of the Shenandoah Valley, the road reached the Roanoke River at the town of Big Lick (today, Roanoke). South ofRoanoke, the Great Wagon...
was rooted in the settlement of the region by British colonists. In the seventeenth century, most voluntary colonists were of English origins who settled...
the most heavily taxed of any in Europe, pointed out angrily that the colonists paid little to the royal coffers. The colonists replied that their sons...
seven ships at Bideford with supplies and more colonists for Raleigh's "Planters" Colony settled atRoanoke the previous year. However, a stay of shipping...
homesteads along the Roanoke, Neuse, and Trent rivers and in the city of Bath beginning on September 22, 1711, and killed hundreds of settlers, including...
Richmond, and Roanoke. In the past they also included Norfolk and Alexandria, whose counties changed their names, ostensibly to end some of the confusion;...