Wikimedia CommonsJohn White’s depiction of his 1590 expedition to Roanoke Island ... Walter Raleigh founded the colony in modern-day North Carolina in 1587, but the settlement was lost after ...

At last, on August 18, 1590, White and a party of sailors ... Archaeologists from the First Colony Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit devoted to Roanoke-related archaeology, set out to ...

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site in North Carolina protects and preserves the known portions of England's first New World ...