Roanoke Island

The year was 1585, when those men came—or should I even call them that. For they were not men, the were monsters. In the town of Werowocomoco (present day capital city of Virginia) lived us, the Secotans. The territory in which we lived in—Wingandacoa—was bounded by the Pamlico River and Albermarle Sound. In our town, there was a long narrow road which held 11 houses, fields—in which we grew corn, tabacco, and sunflower—watched by someone on a stand, a charnel house, dance ground, and communal…

unestablished place that is soon to be called Roanoke. There were a lot of storms and things, so they couldn’t establish it, so they left. Sir Walter came back, except this time, he didn’t bring his brother along. He got there and established it with his wife and daughter, but there was trouble. So, Sir Walter went to England to try and get help for them, but got caught up with the Queen and her maid. He got thrown in jail. Sir Walter didn’t get back to Roanoke for a while, and when he did, his…

Early Jamestown is set in Virginia. There were many settlers living in Jamestown. Over the years, many people died, the question is how. I believe the colonists of Early jamestown died because of starvation, diseases and lack of rain. First off, during Early Jamestown, many people starved, this may be the fault of brackish water. Brackish water is polluted water. It may include human or animal waste. According to Carville Earle the waste would go into the water with fresh water instead of…

ASHEVILLE A brief look at the city of Asheville North Carolina from the 1700s to the present. The history of Asheville begins early in the 1500s with the Cherokee Indians occupying the area. In 1776, a force of colonists destroyed many Cherokee villages in the area, which later lead to the Trail of Tears. As the amount of Cherokee Indians in the area became few, Irish/Scottish pioneers immigrated to the area and become the first settlers to live in the area. A pioneer family in 1784 located…

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…

Roanoke was a perfect location to use as a base, so secluded that the Spaniards would be unable to locate it, and near the West Indies. This concept influenced the chosen colonist for this settlement. Veterans of the Irish or European wars were chosen for their experience, meaning they could protect the colony from any danger, but the colonists would be poor at building and maintaining relationships with each other and the Indians. Victims of England's labor system such as the servants or the…

ship with a total of 100 colonists under John White. When that group started having the same problems as the other group before them did, White returned to England for more supplies. His return was delayed because of a war in Spain. He returned to Roanoke three years later, to find that everybody was gone. There was no evidence of a struggle, or other problems, the only thing they found was the word CROATOAN carved into a tree.…

On May 14, 1607, three ships carrying 110 people sailed to the land of Virginia, named after the virgin queen, Queen Elizabeth I of England. They traveled through Chesapeake Bay, and settled at the mouth of James River, naming their settlement “Jamestown”. Within a year, half of the colonists were dead. How? That is the question archeologists have pondered for years: How did so many Jamestown colonists die? Well, there are three crucial reasons why so many settlers perished. Those are: Lack of…

Have you ever heard of the Roanoke colony? Most people haven’t. Due to the fact that it wasn’t a successful colony, most history books don't talk about it. In this essay, I will argue that the Roanoke Colony is just as important as any other settlement, such as the Jamestown settlement. The Roanoke settlers were nowhere to be found after they tried to explore the “new world”. One hundred and seventeen men, women and children just gone. All that was left was their weapons, the letters (C-R-O)…

food was that 110 people died during the starving time which they had a famine. Also “No one doubted that this new supply would help, but it would not last the winter.” (Hume,61). So, even though they got a new supply of grain, it wouldn’t last. “The island was They needed more food. So, as you can see, lack of food was a big reason that the colonists died.…