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	The Lost Colony of Roanoke
		How closely the personnel of the first colony conformed to the standard suggested by Hakluyt in 1584 is not known; but historical documents indicate that there were men expert in fortification and that there were brickmakers, carpenters, and thatchers.
		Upon the accession of King James I, in 1603, he again lost favor at Court and on July 16, 1603, was imprisoned in the Tower of London on the charge of having conspired to place Arabella Stuart on the throne instead of James.
		Because his patent was now clearly lost and because of his imprisonment, Raleigh was unable to participate in the movement that culminated in the settlement of Virginia in 1607.
	www.archercousins.com /ArcherAssn/lostcolony (5271 words)

	Colony at Roanoke - 1586 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The first English Colony of Roanoke, originally consisting of 100 householders, was founded in 1585, 22 years before Jamestown and 37 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, under the ultimate authority of Sir Walter Raleigh.
		This Colony was run by Ralph Lane after Sir Richard Grenville, who had transported the colonists to Virginia, returned to Britain for supplies.
		This foreshadowed one of the great mysteries of North America, Roanoke's so-called "Lost Colony" of 90 men, 17 women and 9 children, founded in 1587 and discovered to be missing in 1590, but for the word "Croatan" carved on a post.
	www.nationalcenter.org.cob-web.org:8888 /ColonyofRoanoke.html (676 words)

	The Lost Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The president of the second colony of Virginia died an unpleasant death.
		The colony predated Plymouth by 13 years and was peopled by speculators who hoped to form a trade network.
		And at the risk of appearing sentimental about a colony that miscalculated, underpacked, fled, and ultimately set back colonization for quite a few years, the archaeologist reveals one small, rather touching detail.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/97/10/23/LOST_COLONY.html (676 words)

	NC's Outer Banks: A National Historical Treasure - The Lost Colony
		Intensive searches-but not intensive enough, we might think-were made for survivors of the colony in 1608, and seven persons were heard of as having escaped the killing and reached the Chowan tribe not far from the head of Albemarle Sound in North Carolina.
		All trace of these people was lost, however, and their subsequent fate is totally unknown, though speculation has suggested that they formed an element in later Indian populations on the Carolina sounds.
		If the Lost Colonists lived some twenty years on a site that it is suggested, was well inland near the present Elizabeth River in Virginia, they are bound to have left traces that Powhatan is unlikely to have destroyed completely.
	www.nc-outerbanks.com /colony.html (826 words)

	thelostcolony
		They write that the "lost colonists" had talked with Gov.White in 1587 about the possibility of moving 50 miles inland and that White was not worried that they had left the island when he returned in 1590.
		Another advocate of the Lost Colony theory was Caucasian historian Stephen B. Weeks, who wrote in 1891 of the Indians along the Lumbee, that "their language is the English of 300 vears ago, and their names are in many cases the same as those borne by the original colonists."
		Proponents of the Lost Colony theory argue that the Indian-white group sought refuge in North Carolina swamps and that the forbidding nature of the landscape helped the group keep its identity.
	members.tripod.com /~redheart/thelostcolony.htm (1052 words)

	Lost Colony MMO Video Game for PC, Mac, Xbox 360, PS3
		Lost Colony will be available for the PC and Mac in December 2006.
		The first colony ships sent out from the four largest corporations launch into the void within a month of each other, each vying to be the first and doubtlessly most profitable.
		With the advent of sub-light impulse drives and fusion reactors, the mining colony ship was expected to complete the voyage within a mere fifty years.
	www.lostcolonygame.com (879 words)

	Roanoke Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The establishment of the colony was initially postponed, perhaps because most of the colony's food stores were ruined when the the lead ship struck a shoal upon arrival at the Outer Banks, or due to punitive action taken against natives.
		The colony was still in existence in June when Sir Francis Drake paused on his way home from a successful raid in the Caribbean, and offered to take the colonists back to England, an offer they accepted.
		The end of the 1587 colony is unrecorded (leading to its being known as the "Lost Colony"), and there are multiple theories on the fate of the colonists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lost_Colony (2581 words)

	The Lost Roanoke Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		There are a total of four expeditions, under the Raleigh charter, which comprise the story of the lost colony.
		For example, instead of raising their own crops and using hunting skills, they relied on the food supplies that were brought with the ships and then relied on the kindness of the natives to supply their food needs.
		Also I believe that mistakes of this nature reveal the possible fate of the lost colony, by assuming that relations between the colonist and the Croatoans had deteriorated.
	www.libraryreference.org /roanoke.html (1909 words)

	The Lost Roanake (Roanoke) Colony
		In 1587, a colony of 114 men, women, and children became one of the earliest attempts to colonize the new world - America.
		The colony, led by John White, settled on Roanake Island, near Virginia.
		Roanoke Island on TV If you watched Stephen Kings 'Storm of the Century' you may have noticed the reference to the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
	www.spartechsoftware.com /dimensions/vanished/LostColony.htm (462 words)

	eBay - lost colony, Children's Books, Audiobooks items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		THE LOST COLONY OF THE TEMPLARS - Steven Sora
		The Lost Colony of Roanoke NEW Fritz, Jean/ Talbott, Hu
		The Lost Colony ARTEMIS FOWL by Eoin Colfer (2006)NW
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=lost+colony&newu=1&krd=1 (427 words)

	North Carolina Collection-This Month in North Carolina History - The Lost Colony
		On the 4th of July, 1937, a new form of American drama was born on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, as a part of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first English settlers in North America.
		Conceived in the depth of the Depression, when supporting funds were hard to find, The Lost Colony was made possible ultimately as a cooperative effort by local people and several state and federal agencies.
		It had been so popular, however, and such a boon to the local economy that it returned in 1938 and by the end of the next year it was being seen by 100,000 people a season.
	www.lib.unc.edu /ncc/ref/nchistory/jul2006/index.html (732 words)

	Lost Colony found near here? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Willard, director of the Lost Colony Center for Science and Research, says he believes he knows where the so-called lost colonists settled with the Croatans and that residents of at least two communities in northeastern North Carolina may be descendants of the Croatan Indians, a tribe that history had all but buried forever.
		Willard hasn't found the Lost Colony, but with the paper trail he's followed, he has been able to basically rewrite the history of the lost Croatan Indians, which are not lost at all.
		This inlet was used by all of the Roanoke voyages, including the famous 1587 Lost Colony.
	www.lost-colony.com /LCfound.html (485 words)

	The Lost Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The site was a difficult one, because it was inhabited before and after the era of the Popham Colony.
		With those questions answered, the Popham story will join the store of strange facts that complicate the fable of colonization: for instance, that the noble savages -- when they were first sighted by one expedition in 1602 -- had already had so much contact with fishermen from Spain that they were speaking in pidgin Basque.
		That at one point, the Jamestown settlers had packed up their boats, abandoned the colony, and reached the mouth of the James River when they met a ship carrying the new governor, who ordered them to turn around.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/97/10/23/LOST_COLONY_4.html (952 words)

	The Lost Colony
		The Lost Colony is America's first and longest-running outdoor drama.
		The Lost Colony is a two hour spectacle that brings 160 actors and technicians to the stage of historic Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Island.
		From the majesty of Queen Elizabeth's court to the terror of an Indian raid, The Lost Colony will enchant your entire family.
	www.outer-banks.com /lost.cfm (412 words)

	Citizens of the Lost Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Romans 1:18-21 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
		Verse 18 of Romans 1 calls the condition of the lost "ungodliness and unrighteousness." I have sorted the lost along these two categories as if they are spectrums.
		Lost people can be high in spirituality and low and righteousness or vice versa.
	www.tcarden.com /sermons/GreatCommission3B.htm (1829 words)

	The Lost Colony Found?
		The Lost Colony, Paul Green’s play that is, can be found in a recent intriguing and vastly informative collection entitled A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981 (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1994).
		The Lost Colony is fully documented from its point of origin to its actual first performance.
		The letters found in The Lost Colony chapter are useful for anyone interested in studying the development of the first outdoor drama, but perhaps more interesting are the annotations.
	www.ecu.edu /rcro/Newsletter/3-1/Green2.htm (572 words)

	Festival Park: Roanoke Island History
		The primary purpose of this expedition was to build a fort and to establish a military colony on Roanoke Island.
		This expedition became known has the “lost colony” and the mystery of its disappearance is still unsolved.
		It was not until 1607, with the successful Jamestown Colony, that England was able to establish a foothold in the New World.
	www.roanokeisland.com /index.php?name=RIHistory (769 words)

	The Lost Colony of Roanoke
		His first priority was to build a fort; houses were then built around the fort, some with brick but most of wood.
		Running the colony like a tight ship, Lane also looked at the situation around him as a military one.
		He saw the neighboring Roanoke tribe as possible enemies; and when a dispute over a cup turned violent, it was Lane who ended up killing Wingina, the Roanoke chief.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/ushistory/roanoke1.htm (358 words)

	LostColonistList
		This is a list of the known names of members of the second colony at Roanoke, also known as the 1587 Colony, or The "Lost" Colony.
		One theory among many as to the ultimate destiny of the Lost Colony.
		NOTE: Historians are not all in agreement on the exact original number of this second colony at Roanoke; this list contains the known names gleaned from the original records.
	www.lumbee.homestead.com /LostColonistList.html (205 words)

	Will New Dig Solve Mystery of America's Lost Colony?
		By 1590 the colony and all its settlers had disappeared—and no one knows why.
		The group has created the First Colony Foundation to raise money for an archaeological dig in the area, which today is a part of the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
		"As long as the 'Lost Colony' is unexplained, it stays fascinating for a lot of people," explained Phil Evans, who helped start the First Colony Foundation.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /kids/2004/03/lostcolony.html (320 words)

	First English Settlement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The hardships of the first colony under Governor Lane, 1585-86, and the disappearance of the "Lost Colony" of 1587 taught the English the practical difficulties that would be attendant upon the conquest of the continent and enabled them to grow in colonial wisdom.
		Thus, the birth of Virginia Dare, in the "Citie of Raleigh in Virginia," August 18, 1587, first child of English parentage to be born in the New World, was a prophetic symbol of the future rise of a new English-speaking nation beyond the seas.
		Growth of the English colony would circumscribe Spain's own colonial effort; at the same time, the location chosen for the English colony was close enough to serve as a base of operations against Spanish new world ship- ping.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/ncsites/english1.htm (1693 words)

	Amazon.com: Roanoke : Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony: Books: Lee Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Lost Colony Of Roanoke by Jean Fritz
		Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller provides clear and convincing explanations for the disappearance of the late 16th-century British settlement on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
		The lost colonists who survived must have heard that their countrymen were searching in the region, but as slaves they were unable to meet them.
	www.amazon.com /Roanoke-Solving-Mystery-Lost-Colony/dp/1559705841 (3438 words)

	The Lost Colony \| Historic Albemarle Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		He had also instructed the colonists that, should they be forced to leave the island under duress, they should carve a Maltese cross above their destination.
		White found no such sign, and he had every hope that he would locate the colony and his family at Croatoan, the home of Chief Manteo's people south of Roanoke on present-day Hatteras Island.
		Raleigh had given up hope of settlement, and White died many years later on one of Raleigh's estates, ignorant to the fate of his family and the colony.
	www.historicnenc.com /history_lost.html (770 words)

	Roanoke: The Lost Colony - Part I
		Meanwhile, back in England, Raleigh was petitioning the Queen for a second venture to establish a permanent colony.
		In April 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh (recently knighted) prepared a seven vessel fleet to sail for the new English colony.
		Although a detailed accounting had been prepared of every item and worker needed to make a permanent colony a success, the expedition departed with less than the optimal number of ships, men and provisions.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/colonial_america_retired/51756 (344 words)

	First Second - Catalog - Lost Colony
		ITS CITIZENS: a colorful and outrageous band of capitalists, inventors, hucksters and freemen, who jealously guard the island's fantastic wealth from the prying fingers of the outside world, even as they attempt to conceal its captivating secrets from one another.
		The ingredients are gathered for The Lost Colony, a boiling concoction of slavery, patriotism, religion and greed.
		The Lost Colony's self contained world teems with endearing and memorable characters, whose foibles speak to America's own historical struggles with its demons.
	www.firstsecondbooks.com /lostColony.html (190 words)

	Roanoke Island
		Since The Lost Colony was first performed in 1937, audiences of all ages have been thrilled by a production performed on the very shores where the colonists made their home over 400 years ago.
		Now in its 68th season, The Lost Colony has been attended by millions and brings all the elements of family entertainment together for an unforgettable evening under the stars.
		Arrangements should be made for children age 5 and younger by calling The Lost Colony ticket office at (252) 473-3414.
	www.outer-banks.nc.us /tourism/roanoke.htm (1331 words)

	The Lost Colony
		In 1587, a second colony was founded on Roanoke.
		It was then that Virginia Dare, the first baby born to English parents in North America, was born.
		John White, the leader of the colony, went to England to get more supplies.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/nc/roanoke_1 (201 words)

	The Lost Colony
		In the big mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony, something happened in another settlement some years later that was very similar to what happened at Roanoke Island, but with different results.
		This part seems to be odd because his own daughter was among the lost, as well as his grandchild, Virginia Dare, born shortly after they arrived.
		"The Lost Colony Pageant" made famous by our native son Andy Griffith is performed in a Colorful Outdoor Theater where the audience is among the many actors.
	www.outerbeaches.com /OuterBanksHistory_TheLostColony (1505 words)

	Focused Totality: The Lost Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Grady Klein's The Lost Colony, a launch title from First Second Books, manages just that with an eye-opening look at the national shame of slavery.
		The Lost Colony is one of the first books released from First Second, and I'd like to take a moment to discuss the production values they are bringing to the table here.
		The Lost Colony releases this week at booksellers everywhere, including Amazon.com.
	fossen.blogspot.com /2006/05/lost-colony.html (614 words)

	The Search for the Lost Colony - Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
		Perhaps because of the expiration of his patent of discovery in 1590, Ralegh seems to have lost interest in the colony.
		It assumed that the lost colonists had been found and could be reinforced.
		In 1607, when the English established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown, they were well aware that a colony had been left on Roanoke Island twenty years earlier.
	www.nps.gov /archive/fora/search.htm (935 words)

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