This is the story of the mysterious disappearance of the English settlers of the Roanoke Colony in 1587. The colony, located on Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina, was the first attempt by England to establish a permanent settlement in the New World. After
The Roanoke Colony was the site of two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to find the first permanent English settlement in North America. The first colony was established at Roanoke Island in 1585 as a military outpost, and was evacuated in 1586. The more famous second colony, known as the Lost Colony, began when a new group of settlers under John White arrived on the island in 1587; a ship in 1590 found the colony abandoned. The fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains largely unknown.