20 Facts About Roanoke Colony

Establishment of the Roanoke Colony was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Investigations by the Jamestown colonists produced reports that the Roanoke Colony settlers had been massacred and stories of people with European features in Native American villages, but no hard evidence was produced.

Roanoke Colony's party made contact with the locals, presenting Harriot and White with an opportunity to extensively study Native American society.

Roanoke Colony easily captured Menatonon, who informed him that it was Pemisapan who had requested the council in the first place.

Roanoke Colony described a rich and powerful king to the northeast, warning that Lane should bring a considerable force if he sought to make contact.

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Roanoke Colony proceeded with forty men for about 100 miles up the Roanoke River in search of Chaunis Temotan, but they found only deserted villages and warriors lying in ambush.

Roanoke Colony instead ordered his people to sow crops and build fishing weirs for the settlers.

Pemisapan evacuated the Secotan from Roanoke Colony, destroyed the fishing weirs, and ordered them not to sell food to the English.

That evening, Lane attacked the warriors posted at Roanoke Colony, hoping to prevent them from alerting the mainland the following morning.

Roanoke Colony funded a 1602 mission to the Outer Banks, with the stated goal of resuming the search.

Roanoke Colony dispatched two search parties, possibly to look for the other villages reported to him, with instructions to find "the lost company of Sir Walter Rawley".

Roanoke Colony advocated for England to facilitate the Powhatans' conversion to Christianity.

Roanoke Colony argued that the natives, as a race, had forfeited their right to the land through bloodshed, citing the 1586 ambush of Grenville's garrison, an alleged attack on White's colonists, and the 1622 Jamestown massacre.

Sea traffic through Roanoke Colony Island fell into decline in the 17th century, owing to the dangerous waters of the Outer Banks.

Roanoke Colony returned in 1895 to excavate the fort, but found nothing of significance.

In November 2011, researchers at the First Roanoke Colony Foundation noticed two corrective patches on White's 1585 map La Virginea Pars.

Roanoke Colony supposed that Wahunsenacawh could have been seeking revenge for the speculative kidnappings by Mace.

Roanoke Colony's efforts convinced the North Carolina legislature to confer tribal recognition to the community in 1885, with the new designation of "Croatan".

Roanoke Colony concluded that the "Mandoag" were the Eno, who traded the captured surviving Lost Colonists as slaves, dispersing them throughout the region.

Roanoke Colony was the first since John White to write about Virginia Dare, calling attention to her status as the first English child born on what would become US soil, and the pioneering spirit exhibited by her name.