Dare County is pleased to announce that a new plaque designating Roanoke Island as the first Purple Heart Island was installed at the Dare County Veterans Memorial site in Manteo (300 Queen ...

When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

Proposals to build high-end homes on Cane Island near Beaufort are in the initial stages but a decades-old development ...

The Battleship North Carolina, a museum and National Historic Landmark, is in the running for USA TODAY 10Best Readers' ...

One of the greatest mysteries in American history is the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a small settlement of more than […] ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation is seeking $2.5 million from the Virginia General Assembly to implement strategies in a ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

The Dare County Tourism Board Special Committee for the Outer Banks Long-Range Tourism Management Plan met on January 8 at ...

As the official nonprofit partner of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial, our mission is to protect and enhance our OBX ...

The sale never went through, but the U.S. got the military base it wanted on the island. Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, is located in Greenland. It exists due to agreements ...

A 16th-century map could offer insights into the enigma surrounding the settlers of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Established in 1587 on the island that now shares its name, near the current North ...

The caper concerns a group of some 100 British settlers who landed on Roanoke Island off North Carolina in the 16th century to establish an English foothold in the New World, Popular Mechanics ...