Roanoke and the Virginia Stones

Have you ever found something weird just on the ground?

Roanoke the Lost Colony

• 1st English colony in Americas at Roanoke island funded by knight in Elizabeth I’s court, Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh’s 2nd attempt as starvation and Indian attacks destroyed 1st attempt

• John White chosen as military leader and governor, 100 colonists and about 40 sailors, White, his wife and daughter, Eleanor and her new husband welcomed Virginia Dare the 1st Eng. Baby born in Americas. Soon after supplies ran low and White returned to Eng. for more

• White detained almost 1 ½ yrs because Invasion of Spanish Armada and Eng. Needing every ship, after Armada sunk returned to Roanoke

Where did they go?

• White and his men returned to Roanoke to find it abandoned• While looking around his men found

two clues a fence post with the letters CRO and a tree with the word CROATOAN the name of the nearby Indian tribe on Hatteras Island• Recent discovered map by John

White has a patch over what looks like a fort on Hatteras Island, White was forced to return to Eng. based on a hurricane

Virginia Stones

• No one knows what happened to the 100 people left at Roanoke

• One theory says they intermarried with local Indian tribes like the Croatoans, recent DNA tests confirm that some South Carolina residents are descendants of the English and Croatoan and specifically White’s Party

• Another claim is they retreated to the patched fort where they were overrun by Indians and killed

• The final and most mysterious is 42 stones that have been found across S. Carolina and Georgia that date to this time period and even have the name Virginia Dare on them, describing how the colony fled West and died of disease and Indian attack along the way