First Colony Foundation, in partnership with the local historical and theatrical group, Elizabeth R & Company, held a symposium in Manteo, October 27-28, to present recent research on the Roanoke colonies and mount an exhibit of Renaissance artifacts, Elizabethan costumes, and locally produced reproductions.
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The Chowan River basin first appears in the historical record of English exploration and colonization of America in 1584 with the report of Arthur Barlowe on the first of the voyages made under a charter Queen Elizabeth I granted to Walter Raleigh that same year.
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First Colony Foundation staff deployed at Fort Raleigh for six days in May 2017 to re-examine features originally identified by Jean C. Harrington in the mid-Twentieth Century and studied further by Ivor Noel Hume in 1991-92.
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In June 2016, NPS archaeologists and First Colony Foundation’s Eric Deetz located Elizabethan pottery in a salvage excavation on an eroding bluff 400 yards northeast of the Fort Raleigh earthwork.
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FIRST COLONY FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM ON SIR WALTER RALEIGH’S LOST COLONY –
Westward Ho! Roanoke, the Map, and X Marks the Spot
UNC-TV feature highlighting the work of the First Colony Foundation. (external link)
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