The Lost Colony Of Roanoke Island

By: Danyel Sikes

Description

Roanoke Island is just off the North American coast and its separated by 2 other small islands from the Atlantic Ocean.

What Caused This Enigma?

• Just out of the blue, all traces of human were gone and all the houses were destructed. No one is notified and no one saw this traumatic disappearance.

The Great Discovery

• One day after 3 years of vacation, John White, governor of Roanoke Island came back in 1587 to discover nothing and nobody. Shortly after he told all people and its been world wide from about 1590.

What Do Scientist Really Know?

• Many diggings, search parties, and questions have been done yet the only factual findings were that there were no traces of bones and the houses were neatly token down, not destroyed from a natural disaster.

Viewpoints

• No, but though they are mainly different, some share the some concept, that they left the land.

Controversies

many controversies are different but they do have similarities.

• Many people believe they just sailed to surrounding islands.

• Others think they all went their separate ways like close country or island from disease and famine.

• John White thinks that they moved to the maine or inland. Many people believe his theory.

Changes

• Since 1857, they have done a lot of researches like diggings and they haven't found much evidence, but came up with more theories.

5 Interesting Facts

• On the trees was a carving saying “CROTOAN”, An island just across from Roanoke.

• One day Roanoke would of become part of North Carolina.

• The first people on Roanoke Island were 91 men 17 women and 9 boys.

• John White actually had gifts for his family but noticed they were all gone.

• it took John White years before he could actually have search parties

My Theory

• I think they wanted a new and better life so they set off to Crotoan and left the a message for John White and others on the tree.