Roanoke


 * =Roanoke= || The leaders that were in charge of founding this settlement was Ralph Lane after Sir Richard Grenville. ||


 * The first Roanoke colony lasted a total of ten months. This account, a fascinating description of American before European settlement, is taken from Lane's report on the adventure to Sir Walter Raleigh. || [[image:http://www.serc.si.edu/education/resources/watershed/stories/images/roanokemap.gif width="162" height="204" caption="Map of Roanoke"]] ||


 * In the early 16th century, the main religion was Roman Catholic. In 1547, religious reforms began. || [[image:http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00156/images/romancatholicchurch.jpg width="193" height="157" caption="The Roman Catholic"]] ||


 * In 1584, an English fort and settlement with more than 100 men was established on the north end of the island, but it was abandoned the following year due to weather, lack of supplies and poor relations with the Native Americans. The colonists and natives didn’t get along despite the fact that the two local chiefs, Manteo and Wanchese, had been taken to England in hopes of forming good relations. || [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iG2qILKBjms/RuBR2BkciaI/AAAAAAAAAEo/EgH9BIFMB7g/s320/fishing.jpg width="156" height="183" align="center"]] ||


 * In August 1585 a party led by Sir Richard Grenville landed in Virginia and tried to establish a colony. But only ten months later the colony had failed and all the surviving settlers returned to England. Sir Walter Raleigh organized another expedition in 1587. This also failed. Nobody knows what happened to these settlers - when a British ship arrived to look for them in 1590 the sailors found no signs of them. || [[image:http://www.dur.ac.uk/4schools/Roanoke/Images/Roanoke_CS1montage_r2_c2.jpg width="172" height="178" caption="Old pictures of Roanoke"]] ||