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Croatoan

Croatoan unexplained letters found (1590) carved on a tree on Roanoke Island off North Carolina by Governor John White when he returned to the colony from England and discovered the colonists gone. White took the letters to mean that the settlers had moved to Croatoan Island some 50 mi (80 km) away, but no trace of them was ever found. The name, in the form Croatan, is popular in the region and is perhaps best known in the name of Croatan Sound, which connects Pamlico Sound with Albemarle Sound.

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	Boss Basnight: in Raleigh, the Senate is the one place where everybody knows who's in charge: our Mover and Shaker of the Year. (Cover Story).(Cover Story)(Biography) Magazine article from: Business North Carolina; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...through the General Assembly unless he lets it. If Mike Easley is to salvage his agenda, he needs The Boss more than ever. Croatan Sound shimmers below as state GOP Chairman Bill Cobey motors across the new $91 million, 5.2-mile Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge... Read more
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	Barging in: how heavy metal floats up inland waterways to feed the massive maw of Nucor's steel mill.(Feature) Magazine article from: Business North Carolina; 3/1/2004; ; 383 words ; ...Then tugs spend 24 hours nudging them 191 miles through the shallow blue-green water of the Intracoastal Waterway, into Albemarle Sound and up the Chowan River, where waits an inferno that will melt each piece of steel and mingle its molecules with its mates... Read more
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	Manteo (Flourished 1580s) Book article from: American Eras Manteo (Flourished 1580s) Croatoan tribal leader Journey to England. Manteo traveled voluntarily to...disappeared. The only clue to the fate of these people was the word CROATOAN carved on a tree. What actually happened to the settlers remains... Read more
	Roanoke Island Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...until 1591, when he found the colonists gone and the letters CROATOAN carved on a tree. This gave rise to a theory that the settlers had moved to Croatoan Island or had joined the Croatoan or Hatteras Native Americans. Another theory was later advanced... Read more
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	Raleigh Colonies Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...say where they had gone. White found a carving of the word "CROATOAN," the name of an island where Manteo had been born and still...however, was unable to persuade Captain Abraham Cooke to check Croatoan. In the lost group was White's daughter, Ellinor, the mother... Read more
	Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (25 March 1584) Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...children, and men, was discovered three years later to have vanished without a trace, save for a single word etched into a post, "Croatoan." The colonists were never heard from again, and the second disastrous attempt to secure Roanoke Island for the Crown of England... Read more

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