The plume from Roanoke Island “put us in good hope that some of the colony were there expecting ... As the men climbed a sandy bank, they encountered a tree with the carved letters “C R ...

while the exterior and carvings were much darker. The original inscription would have been a stark contrast to the weathered exterior—a good choice for a Roanoke colonist but a poor one for a ...

There are stands of really old bald cypress trees growing in southeastern Virginia that have been used to develop a history ...

What happened to the first established US colony ... later, Roanoke was a ghost town. No bodies, no graves, no note – save ...