Category Archives: The Lost Colony

During a time when exploration was ramping up, and the thrill and excitement of settling a new colony to provide goods and wealth to your home country was on every explorer’s mind, ‘The Lost Colony’ can give pause to the horrors that can take place in a new world. What was supposed to be a new colony that would provide gold, a base for resource exploration in the new world, and a port for privateers to attack Spanish ships turned into a mystery that still haunts us to this day. An entire group of people vanish without a trace and even with all our modern investigations techniques there still isn’t a solid answer to what happened to the Roanoke Colony.