The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

Before the Revolution, even before Jamestown, an English colony was ... Colony mystery “once and for all.” When the legend of the Lost Colony took hold in the United States during the 19th ...

Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is ... English doll in one of many scenes painted by John White, the Lost Colony’s artist governor. White’s realistic portraits of ...

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

John Smith dies in England, having never returned to Jamestown, where archeologists are still working to uncover more of the colony's story. To learn more about Pocahontas, see Images of a Legend.

Their perspective was lost in time ... (See also: Jamestown colonists resorted to cannibalism.) England had made several unsuccessful attempts to start a colony in North America before founding ...

The settlement was established in 1612, a mere five years after the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia and ... though their names are lost to history. Among the 60 passengers were ...

The people colonised by the British had British laws and customs imposed upon them, lost their ability ... The first successful colony was set up in 1607 in Jamestown, which is now part of the ...

A new study suggests the Lost Colony of Roanoke assimilated with Native Americans, backed by iron flakes found on Hatteras ...