Embark on a comprehensive journey through North Carolina's rich history, from its earliest known human settlements around ...

White drew the Virginea Pars map - which was critical to Sir Walter Raleigh's quest to attract investors in his second colony - and other drawings when he traveled to Roanoke Island in 1585 on an ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina’s Roanoke Island in the ...

A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.

RALEIGH, N.C — A new clue and findings at recent archeological digs in North Carolina have led researchers to believe that they may be closer to solving a mystery that is more than 400 years old.

Perhaps the best clue in more than 420 years to North Carolina’s most famous mystery has just been revealed. The remains of the Lost Colony, it turns out, could sit under an Arnold Palmer ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Perhaps the best clue in more than 420 years to North Carolina’s most famous mystery has been revealed. The remains of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from ...

Perhaps the best clue in more than 420 years to North Carolina’s most famous mystery has just been revealed.The remains of the Lost Colony, it turns out, could sit under an Arnold Palmer ...

The story of the Lost Colony is ingrained in the folklore of North Carolina. A play on the Outer Banks that was first staged in 1937 is the longest-running drama in the nation.

Even before the Lost Colony, great waves of emigration and migration were reshaping the region now known as North Carolina. ... This 1775 map was drawn soon after the Tuscarora War.

"Lost Colony" settlers disappeared from Roanoke Island in the late 16th century after English explorer Walter Raleigh sent three groups to the coast of North Carolina in 1584, 1585 and 1587.