Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony Vanished Over 400 Years Ago. Scientists Are Still Looking

NPR ^ | JOE HERNANDEZ | September 16, 2021

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Ah, that's the story I was trying to remember. A DNA study would confirm or deny the tale.

 

 

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Protestants were not allowed intermarriage with natives. If they did have marriage with locals, they were certainly cut off from their Protestant sect and left on their own.

Pocahontas married John Rolfe and they were not only not outcasts but were actually celebrated.

So... no.

[minnesota_bound]

What the typical indian women looked like after the ‘merge’.

Heather in the dunk tank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-cUJytFZp0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9zqmSGXI1c

[fidelis]

So they found no new evidence, it was just a new theory.

[bigbob]

Croatian means “chow line” in native

[nickcarraway]

No one has proven they weren't abducted by aliens, so...

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

When local Indians were asked what happened to the missing colonists, they collectively replied, “Tasted like chicken”!!

[Defiant]

I know that lyric, but I have always wondered if Raleigh had much to do with the tobacco trade, or if his main connection is the name of a cigarette. Never looked into it.

[Beowulf9]

Oh ho! No wonder it was not talked about much.

[Beowulf9]

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[nickcarraway]

I know that lyric, but I have always wondered if Raleigh had much to do with the tobacco trade, or if his main connection is the name of a cigarette. Never looked into it.

Here's a documentary I found on Sir Walter Raleigh on YouTube:
Bob Newhart - Tobacco video (Sir Walter Raleigh phone conversation)

[Beowulf9]

This is hilarious!

[Hostage]

That was an exception based on her charitable giving spirit. Ask yourself why she was so remembered if it was allowed and common.

It wasn’t, but her story was so exceptional that it became folklore.

[BubbaBasher]

This is a bunch of out of date nonsense. The sign the settlers left said “Croatan”. Several years ago there were English artifacts found in a place the Indians called “Croatan”. Imagine that.

[suthener]

“The settlement last mentioned a mysterious visitor named Andre Linoge. That was the last entry in the journal.”

I don’t understand all the mystery. All they have to do is watch the movie. It explains everything.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No it was not an exception and she was remembered because she was rather an amazing person.

[x]

I actually watched the whole two hours of the History Channel’s show with the Viera brothers. It was interesting. Confusing though. Possible artifacts of the lost colonists have been found on another barrier island to the southeast, but also upriver to the northeast. The suspicion is that Indians killed most of them and took a few inland as slaves to mine copper, mostly a matter of trying to scrape traces of copper off of surface rocks.

[fabjr60]

Croatoan refers to the former name of Hatteras Island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where Buxton, the Hatteras Lighthouse and some of the best fishing on the planet are located. The supposition is that the colonists left Roanoke Island with some Indians and traveled south down the Pamlico Sound to Hatteras Island.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.

[SunkenCiv]

• This Day in History: Virginia Dare is Born [2018]
• Have We Found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island? [2013]
• Ancient Map Gives Clue to Fate of 'Lost Colony' (Britain's Roanoke Island in the Late 16th Century) [2012]
• Researchers say they have new clue to Lost Colony [2012]
• Is this Walter Raleigh's 'lost colony' drawn in invisible ink?.. [2012]
• Man spends life researching Lost Colony mystery [2010]
• Scholars seek to spread word on Sir Walter Raleigh [History of the World vol I] [2009]
• Roanoke Island: What Happened to the Lost Colonists of 1587? [2009]
• Search For Lost Colony Goes High-Tech [2008]
• Fire destroys Lost Colony buildings [and costumes] Roanoke Island, NC [2007]
• Researchers Seek DNA Link to Lost Colony [2007]
• History buff searches for Lost Colony[Roanoke] [2006]
• America's Lost Colony: Can New Dig Solve Mystery? [2004]

I'm sure we've had at least one topic on FR about The Dare Stones, but boy, the search didn't find anything.

• Apalache-Creek writing system linked to Roanoke Colony mystery | People of One Fire | Posted by Richard Thornton | Feb 14, 2016 | Archaeology, Art, History, Language, Mysteries | 5
• [I haven't viewed this yet] The Lost Colony Part 1: The Dare Stones | YouTube | 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries | Published on May 23, 2018