Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colonists in Bertie County

In July of 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh’s colony of 117 men, women, and children led by Governor John White arrived at Roanoke Island in North Carolina to establish a permanent English settlement in the New World.  Months later, White sailed back to England to secure more supplies and colonists; however his return to Roanoke Island was delayed until 1590 where he found the settlement abandoned and the colonists’ village and fort in ruins.  Never to be seen again, Raleigh’s second expedition to Roanoke Island became known to history as the “Lost Colony.”

Since 1895, historians and archaeologists have endeavored to find the sites of the 1587 colony’s fort and village on Roanoke Island, and more recently, where the Lost Colonists may have re-established their settlement up about 50 miles up the Albemarle Sound.  Mr. Luccketti, an archaeologist on excavations at Roanoke Island in the 1990’s and 2008-2010,  serves as First Colony Foundation’s co-director for archaeological research.  He will discuss the serendipitous discovery of Site X and the evidence from the First Colony Foundation’s archaeological investigations which show that Site X was a splinter group of Lost Colonists.

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