Wednesday, March 11, 2015

After Columbus' discovery of the Caribbean in 1492.......................Western Europeans fell upon what is now the USA.............and indeed the entire Western hemisphere with a reckless abandon..........1st came the Spanairds, then the French...........then the Dutch........the British were relatively late comers....................this lost colony was set up by English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh.........there is a boat that used to dock in Old Town Alex, Va named after him..........i am talking in the 1980s.............



  1. Roanoke Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Wikipedia
    Jump to The First Colony - Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century RoanokeColony, the first English colony in the New World. It was located in ...
  2. Have We Found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island?

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    National Geographic Society
    A map with a secret, a hidden fort, and remote sensing join forces to offer clues to the mystery of the lost colonists of Roanoke Island.
  3. The lost colony of Roanoke Island

    www.serc.si.edu/.../roanoke....
    Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
    The lost colony of Roanoke Island. On May 8, 1587, a group of 117 men, women and children left England to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Excited by stories ...
  4. The Lost Colony

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  5. Roanoke Island History | Roanoke Island Guide

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    Roanoke Island's history is legendary. Long before Jamestown and Plymouth were settled, the island played host to the first English-speaking colonists in ...

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  6. What happened to the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke? — Ask ...

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    History
    Oct 3, 2012 - He found no trace of the colony or its inhabitants, and few clues to what ... “Croatoan” was the name of an island south of Roanoke that was ...

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