Renaissance · North America · Exploration
1597
Second Roanoke Mystery Deepens
1597
English investigators making inquiries along the Carolina coast failed to find any trace of the lost Roanoke colonists. Rumors circulated of white children living among the Croatan, but nothing was confirmed. The fate of Virginia Dare and her neighbors had already passed from history into American folklore. The word CROATOAN carved on a post has generated theories from peaceful assimilation to massacre, none confirmed.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.