* Birthday of Virginia Dare ( Roanoke Island )

* 1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island ( now in North Carolina ) to establish the Roanoke Colony.

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

Champlain's settlement at Saint Croix Island, later moved to Port-Royal, survived where the ill-fated English settlement at Roanoke did not, and pre-dated the more successful English settlement at Jamestown by three years.

* 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

* 1587 – Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.

** A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Ralegh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina.

* July 22 – Colony of Roanoke: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.

June 4: Roanoke Island | Roanoke.

* June 4 – Walter Ralegh sends Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia ( now North Carolina ), with a view to establishing an English colony ; they locate Roanoke Island.

The first attempt at English settlement of the eastern seaboard of North America occurred in this era — the abortive colony at Roanoke Island in 1587.

During his time at Roanoke Island he made a number of watercolor sketches of the surrounding landscape and the native Algonkin peoples.

During White's time at Roanoke Island, he completed numerous watercolor drawings of the surrounding landscape and native peoples.

Governor White finally reached Roanoke Island on August 18, 1590, his granddaughter's third birthday, but he found his colony had been long deserted.

Roanoke Island was not originally the planned location for the colony and the idea of moving elsewhere had been discussed.

* Roanoke Island, location of the Roanoke colony in present-day North Carolina

Virginia Dare ( born August 18, 1587 ) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Ananias and Eleanor White Dare in the short-lived Roanoke Colony.

Wireless Valley is a term that was coined by Professor Ted Rappaport in 1990 when he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, and was used to describe the Roanoke / Blacksburg Virginia region and the potential of research to create spin-out companies.

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, was abandoned in 1699 when Williamsburg became the new capital of the colony ; the Zwaanendael Colony became a ghost town in 1632, when every one of the colonists were massacred by Indians ; and in 1590, mapmaker John White arrived at the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina to find it deserted, its inhabitants having vanished without a trace.

American historians claim that the world's first component of civilian pre-hospital care on scene began in 1928, when " Julien Stanley Wise started the Roanoke Life Saving and First Aid Crew in Roanoke, Virginia, Virginia, which was the first land-based rescue squad in the nation.

The settlers ' chosen destination was not Roanoke but the Chesapeake Bay but, on reaching Roanoake in late July, and allowing the colonists to disembark, Fernandez refused to let White's men re-board ship.

" Elenora, daughter to the governour and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoke ".

In early 1588 White was able to scrape together a pair of small pinnaces, the Brave and The Roe, which were unsuitable for military service and so could be spared for the expedition to Roanoke.

It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration.

Roanoke Island is one of the three oldest surviving English place-names in the U. S. Along with the Chowan and Neuse rivers, it was named in 1584 by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh.

White's return to Roanoke Island was delayed until 1590, by which time all the colonists had disappeared.

The Battle of Roanoke Island ( February 7 – 8, 1862 ) was an incident in the Union North Carolina Expedition of January to July 1862, when Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside landed an amphibious force and took Confederate forts on the island.

Roanoke Island was occupied by Union forces for the duration of the war, through 1865.

He also was ordered to create a self-sustaining colony at Roanoke Island and thought it had the potential to be a model for a new society in which African Americans would have freedom.

In addition to serving the original residents and recent migrants, the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony was to be a refuge for the families of freedmen who enlisted in the Union Army as United States Colored Troops.

At Roanoke Island, the freedmen had never been given title to their plots, and the land was reverted to previous European-American owners.

The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States was a late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement in what later became the Virginia Colony.

There are no surviving pictures of the Roanoke fort, but it was likely similar in structure to the one in Guayanilla Bay.

White's attempt to return to Roanoke was foiled by human nature and circumstance ; the two vessels were small, and their captains were greedy.

Roanoke Island has been known in European-American history for its significance as the site of Sir Walter Raleigh's planting of an English settlement with his Roanoke Colony in 1585 and 1587.

It was named for a large outcropping of salt which drew the wildlife to the site near the Roanoke River.

During colonial times the site of Roanoke was an important hub of trails and roads.

The Great Wagon Road, one of the most heavily travelled roads of eighteenth century America, ran from Philadelphia through the Shenandoah Valley to the future site of the City of Roanoke, where the Roanoke River passed through the Blue Ridge.

The Elizabeth College campus is now the site of residence halls and athletic fields that belong to Roanoke College.

Archeological evidence shows that Wanchese was the site of the first fishing village on Roanoke Island.

At the time of English exploration, the Algonquian-speaking Roanoke tribe used the site for seasonal fishing.

* the word " Croatoan " carved into a tree on Roanoke Island at the site of the Lost Colony in 1590

" Nimitz stated that he did " not doubt that in time the public will come to recognize the importance and value of this long-lost site ( Drake's Cove in Drakes Bay ), and will rank it with other National Historic Sites such as Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth.

Located on this site was the frontier town of Florence, which was incorporated on December 14, 1837 after the Creek Indians burned the nearby town of Roanoke in 1836.

* link to site of Railfan. net forum for Virginian Railway which has Roanoke Times story and photos

Between 1984-1985, the city of Roanoke developed an Airport Master Plan calling for $ 43. 8 million to be spent in the development of a new terminal building, in addition to other improvements throughout the site.

Among the ruins at the Roanoke site, archaeologists have discovered lumps of smelted copper and a goldsmith ’ s crucible attributed to Gans ' work at the colony.