Lost Colony Of Roanoke Essay

Many of us enjoy a good mystery as it leads to many conspiracies and possibilities. The “Lost Colony” of Roanoke was the unsolved mystique in our American history that still leaves us all wondering to what really had happened with the disappearance. Before the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth, England had attempted to create a new colony but three years later when the supply ship had arrived the colony had completely vanished leaving behind possible clues and many unanswered questions. The significance of The “Lost Colony” of Roanoke was the initial cause of the disappearance, the clues that had been left behind, and the various theories that many choose to believe that had taken place. This period in time was in the year of 1587 with England’s

“The search began when an anxious Englishman named John White waded ashore on North Carolina’s, Roanoke Island. White was returning from England with desperately needed supplies. But when he stepped ashore on August 18, 1590, he found the settlement looted and abandoned. The vanished colonists had left behind only two clues to their whereabouts: the word “Crotoan” carved on a prominent post and “Cro” etched into a tree” (National Geographic). With the very few clues that were left behind made things more challenging and difficult in proving with factual evidence on the whereabouts of the settlers. “On the basis of the mysterious tree carving, the nearby Croatoan Island, now known as Hatteras Island, is the location to which many believe the colonists moved. At the time of the colony’s founding, the Hatteras Indians occupied the island, and a popular theory supposes that the colonists joined the group of Native Americans to overcome their lack of resources and knowledge of the land. A supposed piece of evidence for this claim is the existence of carvings in stones that were purportedly made by Eleanor Dare, the daughter of John White. These stones, often called the Dare Stones, contain written stories that tell the fates of the colonists and personal anecdotes from Dare to her father. Though they are largely believed to be a hoax and forgery, there is some academic belief that at least one of the stones may be authentic” (Hogeback, Johnathan). According to another source, “White’s letter states: We passed toward the place where they were left in sundry houses, but we found the houses taken down, and the place very strongly enclosed with a high palisado of great trees, with cortynes and flankers very Fort-like, and one of the chief trees or posts at the right side of the entrance had the