The Lost Colony

“The Lost Colony”

The colony of Roanoke as been the topic of discussion for a years because of this bizarre happening. Many different ideas have been thrown around about what exactly happened in 1587. Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World in what was then called Virginia, in honor of England's ruling monarch, Queen Elizabeth I. There were two major groups of settlers who attempted to establish a permanent settlement at Roanoke Island, and each failed. Now historians wonder what really happened to the one hundred original settlers that first encountered the island. Did the settlers just move on? Did they get attacked by a Native American tribe? These questions and more are asked very often by millions of people from all around.

In the four centuries since the disappearance, Eleanor and Virginia Dare have become true American heroines, players in an epic unsolved mystery that still challenges historians and archaeologists as one of America's oldest. In 1587, over 100 men, women and children journeyed from Britain to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and established the first English settlement in America. Within three years, they had vanished with scarcely a trace. England's initial attempt at colonization of the New World was a disaster, and one of America's most enduring legends was born. Even today it is still one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries and remains without a true resolution. The fate of the colonists still remains as one of greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of our country.