The National Park Service released the draft environmental assessment Monday that details the three proposed options to stabilize a mile of shoreline at the Fort Raleigh Historic Site in Manteo.

History is full of strange, unexplainable events that can leave anyone scratching their head in wonder. From lost civilizations to unsolved murders, the ...

North Carolinians are rightfully proud that our state has the loftiest peak in America, east of the Rockies. Mt. Mitchell, towering at 6,684 feet, claims the honor in Yancey County.

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Archaeologists have uncovered two large piles of iron flakes on North Carolina's Hatteras Island that they say are evidence of a 16th-century "Lost Colony" of English settlers who disappeared in 1587.

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared between 1587 and 1590 in North Carolina.

English Settlers Left This Place Twice Settlers abandoned Roanoke not once, but twice. The first colony from 1585 had problems with local tribes and left with Sir Francis Drake in 1586. The second try ...

The Outer Banks are a string of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina that run 120 miles from the Virginia border ...

Then one day, the Roanoke settlers vanished and were never heard of again. The "Lost Colony" is one of history's most intriguing mysteries. How could all these people simply disappear without a trace?

The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th century to establish an English foothold in the New World, Popular Mechanics ...

The mystery of what happened to the Roanoke settlers has plagued researchers for hundreds of years, however, the John White map could help with that answer.