The Roanoke Colony Mystery - still unsolved after four centuries

The Roanoke Island in North Carolina the secret of the mysterious disappearance of a band of English settlers in the sixteenth century. The early colony simply vanished without a trace, and their fate is intrigued and baffled historians ever since.

The story begins in 1587 with the second attempt, Iceland to establish a British colony at Roanoke. Two years earlier, the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, after a failed attempt to reach agreement on constitutionIceland, sponsor a colony-male, which is well integrated with the Native Americans who already live initially. However, harmony, because the brusque captain of the colony, Sir Ralph Lane soon angered the local strain. Meeting colony ships to see the problems of delivery, so they are hungry and disappointed, so if Raleigh was the settlers themselves failed in 1586 after a trip to the West Indies, elected him on his way home to England to participate.But because the new world offered potential benefits, the British tried again in August 1587, and is the solution, Which is about 115 men, women and children, the theme of the colony of Roanoke WAS Established in secret.

Very soon after the founding of the colony's governor - Artist John White - returned to England with the intention of immediate urgency, with the supplies required. But the war with Spain was unable to sail for three years. When finallyreturned to Roanoke in August 1590 was a colony completely deserted, with only one idea where the inhabitants are gone and the word "Croatoan" - the name of the tribe, the island lived in the south of the friendly - was carved in tree. But despite White intends spending the rest of his life, no trace of the settlers was ever found.

Theories of historians, imply that the murder may have been tired from the Croatoan tribe, orwaits for deliveries and emotion, they moved in and married into other Indian tribes of North America. Another hypothesis is that they were killed by Spanish troops to remain in North Florida. Their fate may never be known, and no evidence that the tests may have provided, is now long gone. The place of their settlement soon became covered with vegetation and has now also reached the point where historians still debate lost its original location.

Some argue that the condemnedSettlement is now under water, about half a mile of the coast when the sea has moved from the sixteenth century. With the unknown location of the village, it is impossible to dig for clues. Many people have traveled to the colony, hoping to find the region, track, and if you like their membership ranks, make sure you're looking for a hotel near Roanoke to the north of the island where the 'alleged settlement. Who knows? It could be to finallyunlocked the secret to the ill-fated Roanoke colony.