The Roanoke Colony, also known as “The Lost Colony,” was an English settlement founded on Roanoke Island (in present-day North Carolina, USA) in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh. The colony quickly lost contact with England, and when a rescue expedition returned in 1590, the entire colony had disappeared without a trace. The only clues that were found were the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree and onto a piece of wood, which led to theories that the colonists had moved to a nearby island or had been absorbed into Indigenous tribes. What actually happened to the colony remains a mystery to this day.
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