Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

My research travel expedition is too Port St. Joe, Florida. With a budget of five thousand dollars and fourteen days, I could travel to, and stay in relative comfort and be within easy travel to the numerous location needed to try to find out what really happened to Old and New Iola. The small, long lost village of Iola, located in northern Gulf County Florida. Iola flourished in the late 1830's, when Florida was a new Colony of the United States. Born out of a business venture from businessmen

half-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh. On April 24, 1584, Raleigh sent off an expedition

Trying to undercover what happened to the natives who lived on Easter Island has been quite the challenge. With no evidence of their existence other than giant heads that were left there. This mysterious Island is what is known as tragedy of the commons. Tragedy occurred when an entire population became extinct. A native tribe known as the Rapa Nui arrived to the Island around 1200 years ago and began to make a civilization off the land. These natives began to use the land to evolve

In 1585 the colony of Roanoke was founded, captain John White left the colony to find soldiers, food, and supplies. However, when he left for England a war was declared on Spain and England and he couldn’t return until three years later, the colony of Roanoke during that time was lost forever. We believe the colony was raided and pillaged by American Indians. In the carnage the American Indians captured and enslaved the colonists. While staying with the Indians they were accepted over time and gradually

Croatoan Tribe. During the discovery of the New World (AKA the Americas), English settlers came to the New World to find a new life. A place to start fresh and try to flourish with the new lands. After Governor Lane and Sir Richard Grenville return, Raleigh sent his Third expedition to Virginia. After gathering more than 100 men, women, children, and appointed John White as Governor, they sailed to the New World (“The Roanoke Voyages”). Although their goal was to settle around the Chesapeake Bay, they

making permanent settlements in the New World wasn’t a walk in the park. Queen Elizabeth’s ultimate goal was to conquer the New World and have a base to attack incoming Spanish. Sir Walter Raleigh volunteered for the job, bravely risking himself for the nation’s benefit. However, the Queen and Sir Walter Raleigh were having an affair, and Elizabeth begged him to stay and send soldiers instead, which he agreed to reluctantly. 1,500 soldiers, artists, and cartographers made the voyage and were

Though written for children, nursery rhymes often conceal references to historical events. Here are the hidden stories behind three popular nursery rhymes. Humpty Dumpty This classic nursery rhyme is also a history lesson in the English Civil War. Humpty Dumpty was not originally an egg, as immortalized by John Tenniel, illustrator of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass published in 1871. Rather, the name referred to a cannon used by the army of Charles I in 1648 to deter the opposing army

For hundreds of years the story of The Lost Colony has been told to children for generations.Contrastly, as time trickles by we find out more information about the “Lost Colony”. Most people believe that Roanoke were killed by the Spanish. However, because of recent discoveries. Roanoke must have been forced to relocate because of a drought in route to Chowan River and intermarried with Native Americans because of these new revelations. During, Roanoke and Jamestown there seemed to have been

in America to gain an English hold on the land. The group of colonists would be the first English-speaking colonists to live there. They landed on Roanoke Island, an island off of the coast of North Carolina. The group, which was led by Sir Walter Raleigh, consisted of about one hundred men, but they struggled with forming good relationships with the Natives. Although two Native chiefs, Manteo and Wanchese, were brought to England to help establish strong relations, the

The lost island of Roanoke has been a mystery since the very incident. A settlement in the early 16th century mysteriously vanished. All that was left were carefully dismantled houses and two carvings on two trees, one saying “Croatoan” and another saying “Cro”. People ranging from scientists to school children have made educated guesses on how the colonists disappeared but only one makes the most sense. The colonists starved to death or were lost at sea. This hypothesis has a lot of evidence to