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On Friday, 10 July 2015, the First Colony Foundation entered into a new cooperative agreement with the National Park Service at Fort Raleigh Historic Site in Manteo, North Carolina.

The Society for the History of Discoveries, meeting at the Institute for Historical Research of the University of London, heard on 9 July 2015 a research paper by FCF board members Brent Lane and Phil Evans.

From June 22 to June 28, 2015 associates of the First Colony Foundation participated in archaeological excavations at Molana Abbey, the recorded home of Thomas Harriot.

The First Colony Foundation is pleased to announce that the National Geographic Society/Waitt Grants program has awarded a grant of $15,000 in support of the research project titled “Clues to the Lost Colony? Remote Sensing and Site Testing along Albemarle Sound, Bertie County, North Carolina.”

First Colony Foundation research vice president and archaeologist Nicholas Luccketti and his team of archaeologists and curators continue to implement the foundation’s research design to determine if there are physical remains of Elizabethan activities in Bertie County, NC.

Want to know more about the Roanoke colonies and how archaeology might unearth secret clues? This summer, the First Colony Foundation is offering visitors to the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site a special opportunity to learn more about the history of archaeological research on Roanoke Island.

After decades of unsuccessful searching, archaeologists may have their best evidence ever of the possible fate of Sir Walter Raleigh’s “Lost Colony.” It comes in the form of a clue from Sir Walter himself, secreted within the 425 year old “Virginea Pars” map drawn by his expedition to site the first English colony in the New World.

“Beneath the Sand: Past & Present Archaeology at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site” presents the story of how archaeology at Fort Raleigh has changed over the years, and displays some of the artifacts that have been found.

The First Colony Foundation, the National Park Service, and The Friends of Outer Banks History Center announced that “Roanoke Colonies Archaeology and History Week” October 10-16, 2011, presented through support of a generous $30,000 grant from the Percy W. and Elizabeth G. Meekins Charitable Trust, will include a weeklong series of events with exhibits, theatre, symposium, and archaeological research.