One of the greatest mysteries of the English colonization of the New World is the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke. It has been centuries and no one truly knows what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. In 1585, around 20 years before the famous settlement of Jamestown, the first English settlement happened. This settlement was called the colony of Roanoke which is modern day North Carolina. Roanoke like most colonies had a rough start when they suffered from Indian attacks and lack of food. The colony decided to send their mayor, John White, back to England to get more food for the colony. When White returned to the colony in August of 1590 there was no sign of anyone being in the colony. Everyone had just disappeared, including Whites daughter Ellinor Dare and
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The First Colony Foundation have been excavating the area around where the Roanoke islands were for years. Recently they have found a map that looks to be drawn by John White with a huge X marked a little inland from where the colony of Roanoke was. This area happens to be modern day Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The archaeologist say they are pretty confident that this proves that the Roanoke colonist were most likely here. While this isn’t all of the answers it is a great new start to continue the investigation so one day with advancement in technology that we might know what happened to the colonists of Roanoke. (Emery 2015) There are so many more theories about what happened to the colonist of Roanoke, but we will never know for sure. It would take forever to cover all of the topics that people swear by. Some of these theories include the theories that the colonist had a boat that they maybe tried to sail home to England and failed to make it and got lost at sea. Others believe that disease wiped out the whole colony quickly, but there was no evidence of the
The First Colony Foundation have been excavating the area around where the Roanoke islands were for years. Recently they have found a map that looks to be drawn by John White with a huge X marked a little inland from where the colony of Roanoke was. This area happens to be modern day Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The archaeologist say they are pretty confident that this proves that the Roanoke colonist were most likely here. While this isn’t all of the answers it is a great new start to continue the investigation so one day with advancement in technology that we might know what happened to the colonists of Roanoke. (Emery 2015) There are so many more theories about what happened to the colonist of Roanoke, but we will never know for sure. It would take forever to cover all of the topics that people swear by. Some of these theories include the theories that the colonist had a boat that they maybe tried to sail home to England and failed to make it and got lost at sea. Others believe that disease wiped out the whole colony quickly, but there was no evidence of the