This 425-year-old map may have just solved the ancient mystery of the vanished Roanoke colonists

Not The Bee ^ | January 31, 2025 | Staff

[reasonisfaith]

Thank you.

[Jamestown1630]

Believe me, those Roanoke Island mosquitoes are not normal mosquitoes, they’re supernatural...sit through an alfresco performance of the ‘Lost Colony’ play and you’ll understand perfectly.

[SunkenCiv]

https://freerepublic.com/tag/virginiaparsmap/index

[posterchild]

Agents Mulder and Scully will once they fully investigate.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The outsized whales and fishes look friendly enough...good eating.

But the huge monsters on many maps...now those were scary and all at the end of the earth. Those early cartographers had some great imaginations. That must have made recruiting crews a bit of a challenge.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

I think he landed in the wrong spot. Happens all the time.

Ever lose your tent? “IT WAS RIGHT HERE, I SWEAR!”

[Jamestown1630]

Very cool :-)

[GreyFriar]

Yes, this is NOT new information. As Ponygirl said, it has been known for the last 7-8 years. SunkenCiv, thank you for the multiple threads concerning Roanoke.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Cool Ponygirl! What do you think happened to the Roanoke Colony? Hurricane? Indians?

[ponygirl]

I'm really not sure. I know there is a YDNA project trying to link families with oral histories of descent from the Lost Colony, but not sure the current status of that. There is also the Chowan Stone and the Dare Stones to add another wrinkle to the story. I think it's highly likely that they fled up the river and were captured and enslaved by Natives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dare_Stones

While my family doesn't have any Lost Colony history, I do follow the research. The river passages through North Carolina are of utmost research interest because they were the highways of the time and most migratory paths occurred along them. The Lost Colony could have taken any of them and ended up anywhere.

One of my college roommates was from Dare County and her family had been there forever. I swear she looked like the Disney Pocahontas, but she had no knowledge of her family history.

[scrabblehack]

I see a bunch of red dots all over the map. Are they all settlements? Surely they’re not English settlements.

I see an island in the Bahamas about 27 N - looks like Cioteo rather than Croatan.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Interesting!