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41241
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The First Colony Foundation’s efforts have yielded the recognition of its lesser known figures. Stafford’s contributions to European exploration included helping to lead the 1585 expedition and establish the Roanoke colony. Related to his identity is the author’s examination of several Stafford families possibly including him. Speculations of Stafford’s importance in permanent European settlements, had his life not been cut short, include involvement in Jamestown.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 96 Issue 3, July 2019 ,
p283-298
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First Colony Foundation--Sir Walter Raleigh; Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1552-1618; Roanoke Colony; Stafford, Edward--Roanoke Colony; White, John,1540-1593; Lane, Ralph (d. 1603) Governor of First Colony in NC; Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621; TIGER (flagship); Kendrick Mounts--see also Cape Kendrick; Stafford, Edward, 1563-ca. 1604; DeBry, Theodore--see also Theodor de Bry; Drake, Francis, Sir; Roanoke Island--History
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40683
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Cited as the longest running historical symphonic drama in America, Paul Green’s famous play retells the story of the New World’s first colony. Included in its production company's profile is how the Roanoke Island Historical Association brings the legend to life.
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Green, Paul Eliot, 1894-1981; The Lost Colony (Play); Roanoke Colony; Roanoke Island Historical Association ; Historical symphonic dramas--The Lost Colony; Old Colony Players Amphitheatre (Valdese); Cherokee Historical Association; Southern Appalachian Historical Association ; Waterside Theatre (Manteo); Outdoor symphonic dramas--North Carolina
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38241
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Attracting the attentions of Northern transplants and North Carolina natives in equally copious measures is Dare County’s Manteo. Among its noted virtues of the coastal town are a thriving commercial fishing community, preservation of the town’s connection with the lost colony, and maritime heritage measured in its shipyards’ construction of Naval craft during WWII.
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34696
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In the 1930’s, playwright Paul Green attempted to create a play regarding the Lost Colony of Roanoke in North Carolina. The story known by most people does not include the ending, however, and even today, there is debate about what happened to the colonists. Paul Green changed his endings several times, the last of which in 1980’s left on a more hopeful note. This article goes into detail about what prompted each of these changes and how they were interpreted by the audiences.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 27 Issue , 2018,
p52-71, il, por, f
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28759
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The fate of the 1500s Roanoke colony is still up for debate. The facts in the case of the colony’s disappearance are presented along with four theories about what happened to the colony and its members.
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35358
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The quintet of profiles in this article covered topics such as the larval stage of the Trapjaw ant; the “Lost and Found Colonies: Using Science and Technology to Uncover the Past” exhibit, which included Roanoke; the North Carolina Museum of Art’s newest animal ambassador, the Tenrec; the NCMoA’s film “Museum Alive 3-D,” and Alvin Braswell, the NCMoA’s 2017 Thomas Quay Wildlife Diversity Award winner.
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34616
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A pre-colonial site has been identified using a map from John White, one of the first explorers to the New World and the one who found the Croatan message from the Lost Colony. Speculating that this mark could pertain to the Lost Colony, archaeologists have begun digging in the area now called Site X, exposing colonial-era artifacts. These artifacts can now be seen at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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38933
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Port Ferdinando, located on the north end of Hatteras Island near the present day Bodie Island lighthouse, was the principal entry point for men and supplies for the Roanoke Colony in pre-colonial North Carolina. It was named for the Portuguese explorer and sometimes pirate Simon Fernandez and there was evidence of a fort there. John White, the Governor of what is now the Lost Colony, is the only person to cartographically record Port Ferdinando.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 3, July 2016,
p86
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40904
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The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research’s director supports a less popular theory for the Roanoke Colony’s fate. Fred Willard doesn't support the conventional theories: they succumbed to starvation or became massacre victims. His quest for truth has also led to this possibility: the presence of colonists’ surnames in Eastern North Carolina families claiming a Native American heritage suggests they moved inland and integrated.
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Lost Colony; Roanoke Colony; Roanoke Island; Roanoke Island--History; Roanoke Colony--theories about colonists' disappearance--Fred Willard ; Roanoke Colony--theories about disappearance of colonists; Lost Colony Center for Science and Research (Williamston); Croatan Indians--Manteo; White, John,1540-1593; Dare, Eleanor--Dare Stones--Edenton; Signet ring--Buxton--Joyner Library Special Collections ; Raleigh, Walter, 1552-1618; Roanoke Colony--theories about colonists' disappearance--Charles Ewen; Roanoke Colony--excavation sites--Chowan River; Roanoke Colony--excavation sites--Buxton; Roanoke Colony--excavation sites--David Phelps
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28844
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Merry Hill in northeastern North Carolina will soon be home to one of the state’s next great golf destinations. It is also the location of Scotch Hall Preserve, which was recently linked to the Lost Colony mystery. Research revealed that Sir Walter Raleigh had his eye on the Merry Hill area as the site of the first English settlement in the New World.
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38258
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Described by the author and displayed in photographs by Patrick Schneider is a Waterside Theatre performance of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony. Words and pictures collaboratively explain the enduring mystique of his play and the Roanoke Island colonists’ story.
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Waterside Theatre (Manteo); Manteo; Green, Paul Eliot, 1894-1981; The Lost Colony (Play); Roanoke Colony; Roanoke Island--History; Raleigh, Walter, 1552-1618; Long, William Ivey, 1947-; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945; Griffith, Andy, 1926-2012; Dare, Virginia, b. 1587-?; Borden, John; Manteo--Description and travel; Wanchese--Indian Chief
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21774
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This article examines the legends that surround the Lost Colony of Roanoke, especially the carved stone found by a tourist near Edenton in 1937 which purportedly was carved in an Elizabethan style. The article discusses whether the stone is a fake or a message from the Lost Colony survivors.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 86 Issue 3, July 2009,
p250-281 , il, por, map, f
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17803
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The Citte of Raleigh became the first colony in America founded by the English in 1585. John White returned to the colony to find its settlers had vanished. Though mystery surrounds the lost settlers, modern historians and archaeologists are seeking physical remains of the colony. The author used a comparative cartographic approach to demonstrate site formation processes along the island and propose the Citte of Raleigh remains are now submerged.
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15830
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The North Carolina Museum of History collaborated with the British Museum to present Mysteries of the Lost Colony and A New World: England's First View of America. The exhibit focused on early English expeditions to establish permanent settlements in America. John White's famous watercolors were the highlight of the exhibit.
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15858
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Spanish documents describing the English colony of Roanoke supplement existing English records and offer a more diverse, \"international perspective\" on these early European settlements in America. The documents first appear in David Beers Quinn in The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590 but the author questions the accuracy of this translation and others in the literature.
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