Brent Lane, who taught heritage economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, grew up fascinated by Lost Colony legends and owns a modern copy of White’s watercolor map.

A favorite in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh was given a royal charter by the Queen on March 25, 1584, which gave him seven years to establish a colony in the New World on the condition that ...

North Carolina, which was at one time combined with South Carolina to form a single territory, was one of the original 13 colonies and became the 12th state in 1789. It sent the most troops to ...

North Carolina, just down the street from the governor who’d pardoned him. Blackbeard “had bought the loyalty of a colonial governor,” writes historian Colin Woodard in The Republic of ...

The man explained that he was a tourist who had found the 21-pound stone near the North Carolina–Virginia border ... carve an account of the Lost Colony’s ordeal in stone, or was it the ...