Category: Roanoke Colony

• History Daily: August 18

  ROANOKE COLONY ABANDONED Image: 19th-century illustration depicting the discovery of the abandoned colony, 1590. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 18, 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Island colony in present-day North Carolina, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement abandoned. White found no evidence of the whereabouts of the 100 colonists…

  August 18, 2023

  1500s, 1800s, 1900s, 1920s, American History, Colonial America, event & history, Harry Burn, History Daily, Montgomery Ward, Roanoke Colony, Women’s Suffrage

  1500s, 1800s, 1900s, 1920s, American History, Colonial America, event & history, Harry Burn, History Daily, Montgomery Ward, Roanoke Colony, Women’s Suffrage