Roanoke Colony Research Paper

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Do you know what the Roanoke colony was? The Roanoke colony is referred to as the “lost colony”,because nobody knows what happened to them.In late 1500’s the English tried to make their first settlement in the New world off the coast of North Carolina.The first settlers soon returned to England because of a shortage of food and Indian attacks.In 1587 a seconded colony went back to the same place where a man named John White became their leader.John White returned to England to get more supplies and when he returned All the settlers had mysteriously disappeared. The only thing he found was the word "Croatoan" carved in a tree. To this day no one knows what happened to them.Roanoke colony was the first colony established in the new world by

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