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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To get to the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, travelers will need to take a car or taxi due to the lack of public transportation to and from the area. The aquarium is open daily (except ...

Members of the Dare County community are cordially invited to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house event on Thursday, February 13, 2025 to celebrate the recent completion of the new ...

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 ...