Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

Yet, fate had other plans. Sometime between the colony’s founding in 1587 and the return of its leader, John White, in 1590, the settlement on Roanoke Island disappeared without a trace.

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 ... of the Lost Colony’s ordeal ...