In "The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke," Andrew Lawler ironically makes a decent case against getting too curious about the first English settlement ...

For more than 400 years, mystery has shrouded what happened to the 115 English civilians who settled on Roanoke Island, off present-day North Carolina, in 1587. Sometime between their arrival and ...

Roughly 115 colonists landed at Roanoke, and those who vanished included White's daughter and son-in-law as well as his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, ... "My interpretation is that the settlers were ...

Review: In 'Secret Token,' Andrew Lawler excavates theories surrounding vanished colony of Roanoke. August 16, 2019 at 10:00 p.m. | Updated August 15, 2019 at 9:53 p.m.

While these were the first lasting settlements, the earliest English settlement was Roanoke Island, whose settlers disappeared shortly after its founding in 1587. Over 400 years later, we still ...

The colony and its inhabitants vanished mysteriously and became known as ... he now thinks that it is more likely to have been traded to native peoples long after the Roanoke settlers’ disappeared.

Archaeologists could have finally solved the 435-year mystery of America's first English settlement, known as the "lost ...

Roanoke’s Lost Colony: ... Three years later, the entire town and its hundred-plus inhabitants disappeared without a trace. The houses were gone, the settlers presumed dead.

In 1587, more than 100 English settlers disappeared from coastal North Carolina. ... The lost colony of Roanoke Island will always be one of the weirdest episodes in American history.