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Most people have heard of the utterly baffling story of the "Lost Colony," the early English settlement in Virginia/North Carolina that completely vanished sometime before 1590: The Lost Colony of Roanoke | Britannica Explore the oldest mystery of colonial America. WWW.BRITANNICA.COM https://www.britannica.com/story/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke The colony's founder, John White, departed for England in 1587; he returned three years later to find more than 100 colonists simply gone: The word CROATOAN and the letters CRO, carved into trees within the colony's borders, were the only signs pointing to an explanation. Despite the clues, the returning crew was unable to search for the missing...

Researchers believe they may have finally solved the mystery behind the disappearance of the infamous Lost Colony of the 16th century following a new discovery.The so-called Lost Colony refers to 118 English settlers who vanished from Roanoke Island in North Carolina sometime after they set up in 1587.>>>For centuries historians have speculated on whether the group evert made it to Croatoan as they seemed to suggest. Now, researchers believe they did actually migrate there and assimilated with the Native Americans after finding iron filings known as hammerscale in a trash heap on Hatteras Island, Fox News Digital reports.Hammerscale are flaky...