The colonist were sent to England, but when they came back, no one was there. Instead, there was a carving. It was: CRA.
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Roanoke was named the lost colony because the first time people settled and some went back to england. Well the people that went back they came back to Roanoke but the people that settled dissapeared. The only thing that was left was a tree with the carving " CROATOAN" . Nobody knows what happend , still investigating-a 4th grader
The Lost Colony aka the Roanoke Colony din't become a colony because everybody in there mysteriously disappeared without a trace. The only clue we have is a word carved into a tree. "Croatoan".
The Lost Colony came from England?
The lost colony refers to the 1587 colony that tried to settle on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina.
The Lost Colony landed on Roanoke Island in 1587 and John White (father to Eleanor White Dare and Grandfather to the first English child born on American soil, Virginia Dare) came back in 1590 to find no one in the fort and the word CRO carved in a tree. The plan was for the Colonists to go with the Croatoan Indians if they had troubles so it was assumed that is what happened but no one knows for sure what actually happened to the 115 men, women and children. So the Lost Colony has been lost (as of 2014) for 424 years, so far.