Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

the message CROATOAN was found carved on a tree. The”lost colony,” some experts believe, joined the Croatan Indians. Among them: Virginia Dare. Contact us at [email protected] ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, which scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for.

An illustration depicting John White and others finding a tree carved with the words “Croatoan” on Roanoke ... as well as the name of a Native American tribe that lived there.

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John White, ...

John White depicted finding a tree carved with ‘Croatoan’. Picture ... as well as the name of a Native American tribe that lived there. Numerous theories swirled regarding the fate of the ...