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Brent Lane, who taught heritage economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, grew up fascinated by Lost Colony legends and owns a modern copy of White’s watercolor map.
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Approaching the age his dad was when he died at Daytona, a second-generation legend went looking for answers. I went looking, ...
Mark Horton, a British archaeologist digging for remnants of the failed 1587 Roanoke colony on the North Carolina coast ... likely using a map drawn by Somers. On July 11, 1612, the vessel ...
We can think of cemeteries as spooky places scarred by sadness, or as beautiful and instructive windows into the lives of ...
That’s Aiken, South Carolina for you – a town where magnificent oak-lined streets lead to treasure troves of antiques that ...
Aiken wasn’t just any Southern settlement – it was deliberately designed as a retreat for the well-heeled. Founded in the ...
His belief was bolstered by several factors, including having viewed a period English map ... Colony Museum is open Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is located at 46618 North Carolina ...
"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...
Marc Wyatt, director of Welcome House Raleigh, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, received a ...
Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was signed a year before all the American colonies split from British rule.
Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace, the Chagos Islands. She didn’t get ...