The Mother Vine produces scuppernong grapes, the state's official fruit since 2001, and dates back to the early days of the ...

"Lost Colony" settlers disappeared from Roanoke Island in the late 16th century after English explorer Walter Raleigh sent three groups to the coast of North Carolina in 1584, 1585 and 1587.

"Lost Colony" settlers disappeared from Roanoke Island in the late 16th century after English explorer Walter Raleigh sent three groups to the coast of North Carolina in 1584, 1585 and 1587.

Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is now North Carolina. What happened to them is a mystery, but there are some clues. Excavations at the site of a Native American town on ...

The basic beats of the story behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke go something like this: In the late 16th century, a group of English colonists settled on an island off the coast of modern-day North ...

A group of over 100 colonists settled on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in 1587, led by Sir Walter Raleigh. John White, the governor of the colony, returned to England for supplies in 1587.

In these ways and others, La Vere concludes, this merciless war pointed a new direction in the development of the future state of North Carolina"-- Provided by publisher. Date 2013 Colonial period, ca ...

MANTEO, N.C. — Archaeologists say an unearthed copper earring likely came from European explorers who made up part of the "Lost Colony" in modern-day Roanoke Island, North Carolina. The ...

Rising seas and increased flooding may have helped chase Viking colonists out of Greenland, a new study has found. The study offers a new explanation to a medieval mystery: why Viking settlements o… ...