Roanoke: Unraveling the Mystery of the Lost Colony

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The lost colony is still influencing Dare County, North Virginia. There has been new evidence that suggests what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. But, first you must know the about the Roanoke colony.
“Roanoke was the first New England colony it came 22 years before Jamestown and it came 37 years before the Pilgrim colony” (Colony). Roanoke was a land grant given to Sir Walter Raleigh, by Queen Elizabeth I. Raleigh made his first attempt at colonizing America in August of 1585. This first colony lasted only 10 months; this was doing to Native American attacks and starvation. The next colony was set up in 1588 this colony was very successful. A war between England and Spain broke out and Sir Walter Raleigh was called back to England to lead in the Royal Navy. When he returned two years later there was no sign of the colonists. Now for Sir Walter Raleigh’s map, that was recently found in an old chest that belonged to his brother …show more content…

This suggests that the settlers joined a group of Croatian Indians or that they traveled south to the Croatian islands. “Although there are main theories this is the most likely said lead archeologist Nicholas M. Luccketti ” (Colony). Another theory is that they tore down their houses to make a boat that sunk at sea. The only evidence backing this theory is that there weren’t any houses when Sir Walter Raleigh returned from England. (Lane Ralph) These are just three of the hundreds of theories about what happened at Roanoke.
The Roanoke colony theories range from aliens being involved in there disappearance to the position of the moon with the ocean but no one knows what happened for sure. I think that both theories are possible but the theory about them living with the Native Americans is more likely because it would be hard for them to have made a boat to cross the ocean in. Which theory do you think is more likely to have

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