Dare
County, North Carolina
By
The site of
Under the
leadership of Sir Richard Grenville and
At Easter, 1586
Grenville still hadn't returned, and at the colony, things were so intolerable,
that when Sir Francis Drake visited the colony, he offered to take the grateful
colonists back to
Shortly afterward,
a supply ship, followed within two weeks by Grenville himself arrived
separately at the newly abandoned colony.
The crews of neither ship was aware of what happened to the settlers,
and after searching in vain, they headed back to
On July 22, 1587,
he returned with a shipload of people, and for the second time found an
abandoned colony. Grenville had
originally planned to pick up his 15 men and relocate the colony north to the
A month later the
new governor, John White organized a provisioning trip to
Finally, three years later, on August
12, 1590 he returned to an abandoned colony.
Except for the word "CROATOAN" carved into a post, the entire
colony and its 116 people had disappeared without a trace, a mystery still unsolved
to this day. Three attempts – three
failures.
On April 15, 1941,
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