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What Happened To The Lost Colony Of Roanoke Island? Researchers Say They Have The Answer

PEOPLE Posted: August 21, 2020 11:02 am

It’s American history’s oldest mystery: in 1587, 100-odd colonists sent by Walter Raleigh settled on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Within a few weeks, their leader had to go back to England for supplies, and he wasn’t able to return for three years. When he finally did, he found the settlement abandoned — with the word “CROATOAN” carved on a post. No Europeans ever found the missing Roanoke settlers, and there’s been speculation ever since about what became of them. Now a writer working with a group of archaeologists says that the solution to this puzzle has been hiding in plain sight all along. – The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.)

PEOPLE Published: 08.17.20

Read the story in The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) Published: 08.17.20

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