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The unpainted aristocracy of Nags Head: In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 10; In northern Nags Head some seaside homes have survived the frequent storms of the Outer Banks. Located near the intersection of Virginia Dare Trail (NC 12) and East Soundside Drive, these “unpainted aristocracy” homes are the oldest summer cottages...; By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.

Fort Raleigh and the Lost Colony: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.3; England's first two settlements in the New World differed in character and purpose: The first short-lived colony, inhabited entirely by men, was set up as a stake in the newly discovered Americas and a base of privateering against French and Spanish shipping. The second was intended as a permanent colony and was settled by men, women and children. Their disappearance is a mystery that remains unsolved nearly 400 years later.; Format: article

Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony: Fact and legend: In 1587, a group of British citizens set up a colony on Roanoke Island in hopes of establishing the first permanent English settlement in the New World. The colony's governor sailed to England and returned three years later to find the rest of the colonists had vanished. Myths and legends have arisen attempting to explain the mystery of the Lost Colony. In one legend, the governor's granddaughter is transformed into a white doe by a jealous Indian witch-doctor.; Format: article

Virginia Dare statue: This statue, created by Maria Louisa Lander in 1859, depicts Lander's vision of Virginia Dare as an adult. Of course, because Virginia Dare was one of the vanished members of the Lost Colony, nobody knows what she looked like as an adult—or whether she...; Format: image/photograph

The search for the Lost Colony: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.4; No one knows what happened to the “Lost Colonists” of Roanoke Island -- but that has only made their story more interesting. Over the past 400 years, historians, archaeologists, storytellers, and outright liars have developed a number of theories about the vanished settlers.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site: Information about the Lost Colony, the Civil War, Virginia Dare as well as thoughtful explorations into cultural conflict in this area and women's role in the 1587 Lost Colony.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Writing a ghost story/mystery: Building upon the students' knowledge base of Blackbeard the Pirate, the numerous shipwrecks off of the N.C. coast, myths, and legends of the Carolinas, and/or The Lost Colony, students will write a ghost story or mystery narrative of their own.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By laura ritchie.

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