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MANTEO / ROANOKE ISLAND: Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Home Page |
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A visitor center, interpretive programs and nature trail are open to the
public at the site of Sir Walter Raleigh's ill-fated attempts of
settlement in 1585. Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, along with her family and other colonists disappeared in this area, their whereabouts never discovered. Named a National Historic Site in 1941, Fort Raleigh was explored archaeologically and then restored in 1950. No admission fee. |
