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    In the year of fifteen-eighty-seven, a group of British settlers crossed the ocean in order to get to America and make it their new home. The leader of the colony, John White, returned to England to gather supplies. Whenever he returned, the colony had disappeared with nothing left except the word “croatoan” carved into a tree. What happened to the people of Roanoke Island? How could an entire colony of people just vanish? Experts are still trying to solve this unexplained mystery today. In the…

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    John White was an English painter, explorer and colonist. John White used watercolors to paint maps and objects that he saw while he was exploring Roanoke. Today we use the paintings by John White to try and solve the mystery of the “Lost Colony.” There was three attempts to settle Roanoke. The first attempt was lead by Arthur Barlowe who took more than a hundred men with him to settle in July of 1585. They had a supply shortage and didn’t think the supplies would get to them in time, so they…

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    The essential effort made by the English to set up a region in America, happened in the late sixteenth century, at Roanoke Island. Starting in 1584 attempts were made to research the east shore of North America as far south as Spanish cases. It was in 1587 that an invariable area was finally made. However magnificent this satisfy was for the pilgrims and England, it ended up being one of the best American riddles when the state was discovered surrendered in 1590. In this presentation of the lost…

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    Roanoke Expedition

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    relationships with each other and the Indians. Victims of England's labor system such as the servants or the children in poverty created a perfect “pool of colonists.” The first expedition left England on April 27, 1584 and landed on July 13 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Barlowe and Amadas the commanders of the ships, returned to England full of hopes…

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    The Lost Colony , also known as the Roanoke Colony was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island in what today’s Dare county,North Carolina . The origins of one of America’s oldest mysteries no one has solved yet . In 1584 , 2 explorers Philip Amadas became the first Europeans to see the Island . Sir Walter Raleigh sent the 2 explorers with a mission to scout the broad sounds and estuaries in search of an ideal location for settlement . In August 1587 , a group of about 115 English settlers…

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    The Lost Colony To me the lost colony basically set up for doom all the way from the beginning, they were already struggling settling in a new place with barley any resources. Something was going to eventually happen to them. Even though no one really knows what really happen to them somehow they all disappeared or there was no trace of what happened to the Lost colony. The lost colony was made up men, women, and children that came to Roanoke island with the permission from the queen at that…

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    In a post apocalyptic world where modern medicine and technology is barely used, and most of the population has died because of a plague spread by rats. People must thrive and live on the land, and people must work together in harmony to survive. On the island Hatteras, which is connected to the island Roanoke by a bridge lives a tribe of 14 people. Everyone on the island has special gifts, and because of these gifts they’re known as elemetals. Elementals are people who were born with the…

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    My theory People for thousands of years have wondered what has happened to the lost colony of roanoke island. There are a billion of situations that could’ve happened. Like alien abductions or territorial indians killing to keep what’s theirs. But here is my inference of what I think could’ve happened. First, I believe that the lost colony relocated to Croatoan island and lived mutually with the indians. I chose to believe this theory because when I looked at all the evidence it all…

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    St. John's Case Study

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    Case Studies Case 1: During my visit to St. John 's Episcopal Cemetery in Valle Crucis, NC, I came across an interesting example of a laser etched image on Charles Dotson 's gravestone. Etched on Charles 's stone was an image of the USS San Diego along with the inscriptions "WWII," "Bronze Star Recipient," and "Brother Our Hero." Initially, I could figure that Charles was a member of the crew of the USS San Diego during his life, and that time was a defining factor of his personal identity.…

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    Roanoke Research Paper

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    Have you ever wondered what if someone in your life disappeared? Have you wondered if you leave the room, will the people in that room still be there when you come back? If you leave someone alone, will they still be there when you get back? For the colonists of Roanoke this was a reality as they disappeared without a trace. No one knows where they went and it’s up to the scientists of today to speculate. The colony of Roanoke may have assimilated into or captured by the native indian tribe,…

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