When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

What was lost is now found. Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded historians for centuries. The caper concerns a ...

Dare County is pleased to announce that a new plaque designating Roanoke Island as the first Purple Heart Island was ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

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 ...

Married to Ananias Dare, Eleanor gave birth to Virginia—the first English child born in the New World—shortly after the English colonists landed on Roanoke Island. Did Governor John White’s ...

Imagine Mercer Island without the Roanoke, established in 1914 and now almost everyone’s favorite spot on the island.

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To get to the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, travelers will need to take a car or taxi due to the lack of public transportation to and from the area. The aquarium is open daily (except ...