Seaside Vacations

  Years before Jamestown, VA and Plymouth, MA, a group of about 120 brave men and women set out to settle the New World. 

In 1587 these brave souls thought that Roanoke Island would be the perfect place to set up a colony.  Shortly after the colonists settled on the island, Eleanor Dare gave birth to Virginia Dare, who was the first European child born in America.  Life on Roanoke Island was a lot harder than the colonists could have ever imagined. 

These brave pioneers faced many hardships during their time on the Island.  Difficult weather and hostile Indians were challenging, but the true challenge was the dwindling supplies.  When the colonists were dangerously low on supplies, they sent Governor John White back to England to replenish the diminishing rations.  

White’s return was delayed due to England’s war with Spain; he returned three years later to discover that all of the colonists had vanished!  The only clue that was left behind was the words CROATOAN carved in a tree.  To this day, the only clue that remains is the haunted word carved into the tree. 

Today, The Lost Colony legend lives on at a waterside theatre on the Outer Banks; the legend is reenacted on Roanoke Island during the summer months by an award-winning theatre group.