dec 31, 1587 - Colonists arrive in Roanoke, Virginia
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In 1587 John White led more than 100 men, women and children in the first attempt to found a permanent English colony in the New World. They settled on Roanoke Island, one of a chain of barrier islands now known as the Outer Banks. Later that year, John White headed back to England to bring more supplies, but there was a naval war with Spain and it would delay his return for nearly three years. When he finally arrived on Roanoke Island, on August 18, 1590, John White returned to find the colony had abandoned and looted, with no trace of the settlers. There were just two clues the word “Croatoan” , had been carved on a post and the letters “CRO” scratched into a tree trunk. Now the colonists are called the inhabitants of the famed “Lost Colony.”
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