An Author Claims the Lost Colony of Roanoke Was Never Actually Lost—and He Can Prove It
created: May 16, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: May 22, 2025, 1:12 p.m.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the United States’ most enduring mysteries.
It’s one of America’s earliest and most enduring mysteries: what happened to the “Lost Colony of Roanoke?”Before the Revolution, even before Jamestown, an English colony was established in what is now North Carolina.
“The lost colony narrative was a marketing campaign,” Dawson defiantly declared.
And so, the mystery of the Lost Colony endured.
So, has the Lost Colony mystery been solved?
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