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 ...

What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a ...

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

This raised an interesting question: Could this be the location that the Roanoke settlers fled to from their island colony? More than 400 years ago, Queen Elizabeth I and explorer Sir Walter ...

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 ...

In 1587, under the leadership of John White, more than 115 English settlers—including men, women and children—established a colony on Roanoke Island. This endeavor was England's second attempt ...