"Croatan"
That's the final cryptic word found carved on a wooden post at the abandoned English colony of Roanoke in 1590, in what is now North Carolina. The meaning of the word and what happened to the "Lost Colony" has been a source of speculation for over four hundred years. Now, a group of archaeologists hopes to solve the mystery by excavating a number of sites around Roanoke Island where significant artifacts and midden piles have been found. They believe they are in a race against time as urban development is encroaching on many of the archaeologically significant sites outside the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
Click here for more on the settlement and disappearance of the first English colony in the "New World" and the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
Croatan
