29 Facts About Roanoke Island

Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States.

Residents of Roanoke Island are governed by the Dare County Board of Commissioners.

The meaning of the word Roanoke Island is derived from the Powhowaten language, which was geographically close to the Roanoke Island.

The Roanoke Island likely exported the shells and white beads made from them to other distant cultures across the continent.

Ancestors of the Algonquian-speaking Roanoke Island are believed to have coalesced as a people in about 400 CE, based on archeology and linguistics.

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Roanoke Island was the site of the Roanoke Colony, an English settlement initially established in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Roanoke Island is one of the three oldest surviving English place-names in the U S Along with the Chowan and Neuse rivers, it was named in 1584 by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Roanoke Island was originally a large dune ridge facing the Atlantic coastline and therefore is not a barrier island contrasting with the Bodie Island that exists 2 miles to the east.

Archaeologists discovered that the land of Roanoke Island was part of the Mainland when it was first inhabited by the first Native Americans.

For thousands of years the development of Native Cultures on Roanoke Island corresponded with cultures occurring in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina.

The sand dune of Roanoke Island became disconnected from the mainland by water, and inlets in the Outer Banks turned fresh water sounds into brackish ecosystems, the land termed Roanoke Island Ridge became Raonoke Isalnd.

Roanoke Island women gathered acorns and hackberry nuts to supplement their diets.

Roanoke Island Indians had smoking pipes and used the seeds of plants such as Cleaver and Plantain for medicinal purposes.

All Roanoke Island villages were likely outlying tributaries of the Secotan's capital, Dasamonguepeuk, located on the western shore of the Croatan Sound in the modern day mainland of Dare County.

Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World.

At that time the Secotan Tribe and their Roanoke Island dependents were totally hostile to the English, but the Croatoan remained friendly.

White's return to Roanoke Island was delayed until 1590, by which time all the colonists had disappeared.

The Roanoke Island was owned by both Carolina Governor Sam'L Stevens and Virginian Governor Joshua Lamb.

The development of colonial Roanoke Island depended on the natural opening and closing of inlets on Bodi and Hatteras Islands to its east.

Roanoke Island itself was largely spared from war violence and independence for the United States had little effect on local residents.

Roanoke Island continued its isolation until authorities of the Confederate States of America hastily prepared Roanoke Island to defend Coastal North Carolina from the invading Unionist Navy and Army.

The Battle of Roanoke Island was an incident in the Union North Carolina Expedition of January to July 1862, when Brigadier General Ambrose E Burnside landed an amphibious force and took Confederate forts on the island.

Roanoke Island was occupied by Union forces for the duration of the war, through 1865.

Roanoke Island was ordered to create a self-sustaining colony at Roanoke Island and thought it had the potential to be a model for a new society in which African Americans would have freedom.

Roanoke Island established a sawmill on the island and a fisheries, and began to market the many highly skilled crafts by freed people artisans.

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Roanoke Island went from being the outpost of Currituck to being the center of power in the new county.

Communities of Roanoke were transformed by the construction of the first bridge connecting the island eastwards to Nags Head in 1924.

Around the same time, NC 345, Roanoke Island's first paved road for automobiles, was built and covered the entire extent of the land from the marshes of Wanchese to the Northend.

Roanoke Island became industrialized for the first time in Wanchese.