I'm sure these guys could help him out....
Ping!
The NC coast shits and moves continuously. A sand spit or marsh noted on a 1923 map certainly didn’t exist in the early 1600’s.
Looks like a possible match. He could be on to something.
Oh for pete’s sake. Just let it go. They’re ants for crying out loud!
He needs to set his beeber to stune. Then he’ll find it.
They probably don't like this dude "in their territory".
I'm a map freak. Maps have "secrets".
Although conditions in Europe are usually pointed to as delaying more English settlement earlier, the cold, hard facts were that it was so dry that all the rivers ran saltwater up to the Fall Line.
The 1612 reference to colonists having held out until 1607 when Powhatan Indians massacred them is just too convenient ~ Jamestown itself was founded that year.
There are references to other non-English settlers in the vicinity of Jamestown (including Martin's Hundred which became part of Jamestown (extended) as early as 1598.
A later census of the region conducted by authorities at Jamestown indicated that there was already extensive settlement in what is now Maryland (upwards of 20,000 European people).
There are another 30 sites on the Eastern Seaboard that were settled in roughly the same period as the Raleigh attempt and Jamestown, but most have not been studied simply because it costs a lot of money and some of them are on developed private property. A couple of them are actually fairly near Jamestown ~ then, too, the Spanish had sites, the residents of which relocated to Jamestown as soon as they could.
What happens with any study of any of these named settlements is there is little information about them in European records, they left behind few of their own records, and even archaeological evidence is not terribly extensive.
Anyone interested in early 1600s "Virginia" can stop in any county library in Virginia and visit "The Virginia Room". They make a major effort to acquire and preserve for your use copy of any report or book about anything concerning early Virginia.
You'll find information about Florida as well as CarolAnna!
Wraiths of Roanoke
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Second: why would anyone build a fort with that shape? The Vauban touches are nice, but that long extension just increases the amount of wall to be defended without adding much to interior space.
The map shows the contours of a tidal pond.
I'm sure these guys could help him out....
Innerestin’.
It’s good to have a hobby.