In 1587, 115 English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island, located between North Carolina and the Outer Banks, to establish the first permanent English settlement in America. Among them was Eleanor ...

Some researchers believe it may mark the location of a fort where the colonists fled after abandoning their settlement on Roanoke Island. Photograph by Stuart Conway WITH PERMISSION OF TRUSTEES OF ...

Located in Manteo, the Roanoke Island Festival Park takes visitors back in time to the 1500s and the settlement of Roanoke. Inside the park, you can board the replica Elizabeth II ship ...

Just outside North Carolina's Outer Banks is Roanoke Island, the scene of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in U.S. history: the disappearance of an entire colony of English settlers.

In 1587, a group of settlers land off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island to establish the first English colony in America. But only a few years later, the 115 men, women and children ...