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