The Colony House Motor Lodge, a 69-room roadside motel, has reopened to guests after closing in 2018. It first opened in 1959 ...

Human history is full of mysteries, from the Ark of the Covenant to the story of Atlantis. But some, like the lost colony of ...

In the late 1500s, over 100 settlers vanished from the Roanoke colony—leaving behind only one cryptic word. The mystery still haunts American history.

A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.

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 ...

The Roanoke Island Historical Association (RIHA) is proud to announce the annual Virginia Dare Nights on Monday August 18th and Tuesday, August 19th, 2025.  Virginia Dare Nights commemorate the ...

“This evidence is more likely the result of the 1587 colony’s stated plan to relocate from Roanoke Island rather than possible brief visits in previous years,” the team said.

The mystery began in 1587, when a group of English colonists landed at what is now known as Roanoke Island, which sits in the outer banks of North Carolina. “Their idea was to create an English ...

Explorers, historians and archaeologists have been trying to figure out what happened to the Roanoke colony since at least 1590 when John White, tasked by Sir Walter Raleigh with setting up a new ...

As Lawler explained, there was a specific reason why Americans in the 19th century were so attracted to the story of the Roanoke Colony — namely, that it played into prevalent ideas about race.

The fort symbols are not visible to the naked eye, but were found using imaging techniques, the First Colony Foundation said in a 2012 statement. Site x is located beside a Native American village, ...

What is the "Lost Colony"? NL: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh sent over a colony of 117 men, women and children. That was supposed to be a permanent settlement in the New World.