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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of North Carolina's Outer Banks between Albemarle and Pamlico sounds. Colonists dispatched by Sir Walter Raleigh founded the first English settlement in North America in August 1585 but returned to England the following year. A second group of colonists organized by Raleigh landed on the island in July 1587 but vanished sometime before 1591.
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The first English settlement was established over a generation before Jamestown -- in a place called Roanoke Island, in 1584, and 1587, off the coast of what is today called North Carolina.
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The first discovery and settlement of this country was by the procurement of Sir Walter Raleigh, in conjunction with some public spirited gentlemen of that age, under the protection of Queen Elizabeth; for which reason it was then named Virginia, which begun on that part called Roanoke Island, where the ruins of a
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After a series of blunders and missteps by the colonists, one small armada, under the guidance of John White, was able to bring 115 settlers to the north shore of Roanoke Island.
Jerry Nelson: Sea Spray and Time Travel Jerry Nelson 2012
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After a series of blunders and missteps by the colonists, one small armada, under the guidance of John White, was able to bring 115 settlers to the north shore of Roanoke Island.
Jerry Nelson: Sea Spray and Time Travel Jerry Nelson 2012
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No desk-bound dullard, he is exceedingly well-traveled—indeed, he often pilots planes to the locations he writes about, which include sites as close as Roanoke Island in Virginia and as far away as China.
The Herald of A New Creation Alfred W. Crosby 2011
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The ship White was on, the Hopewell, finally neared Roanoke Island in mid-August 1590.
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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“Really, the only important thing that got messed up with my grandfather on Roanoke Island was that the wrong kids saved him from drowning.”
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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Even before the official “Lost Colonists,” the trial-run settlements on Roanoke Island provided several missing persons who might also have accounted for some of the reports of people who looked or acted like Europeans, residing in various places along the Atlantic coast.
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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Not only did the crew swim, fish and eat ice cream, they also visited the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island and the Digger's Dungeon to check out the monster truck displays.
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“Maybe he was actually leaving Roanoke Island when his rowboat broke up, and we rescued him?”
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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