Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

Married to Ananias Dare, Eleanor gave birth to Virginia—the first English child born in the New World—shortly after the English colonists landed on Roanoke ... of the Lost Colony’s ordeal ...

The lost colony of Roanoke, established in the late 1500s off the east coast of what would become the U.S., vanished mysteriously. Join us as we uncover the strange fate of these early American ...