Roanoke Island preserves the landscape associated with England’s first attempted permanent colony in North America. When a supply expedition returned in 1590, the settlers had vanished, leaving “CROATOAN” carved into a post. Their ultimate fate remains one of America’s best-known historical mysteries.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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