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The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared. It has come to be known as the Lost Colony, and the fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains unknown. Roanoke Colony was founded by the governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. [1]
After the European discovery of North America in the 15th century, European nations competed to establish colonies on the continent. In the late 16th century, the area claimed by England was well defined along the coast, but was very roughly marked in the west, extending from 34 to 48 degrees north latitude, or from the vicinity of Cape Fear in present-day North Carolina well into Acadia.
The remains of a building foundation at Hanton City. Hanton City (known locally as Lost City) is a colonial-era ghost town in Smithfield, Rhode Island near Hanton City Trail. . The remains of Hanton City consist of several stone foundations, a burial site, a defunct dam apparently used for irrigation, and a dilapidated scattering of stone walls, typifying it as a standard small New England ...
Grand-Bassam was the French Colonial capital of Côte d'Ivoire until 1896 when it was abandoned by the French Colonial Government. Commercial activity gradually weakened until the city became a virtual ghost town in 1960, the same year Côte d'Ivoire became independent.
Although erosion had cut off the land bridge between Jamestown Island and the mainland, the isthmus was restored and new access provided by the completion of the National Park Service's Colonial Parkway which led to Williamsburg and Yorktown, the other two portions of Colonial Virginia's Historic Triangle. There were also improvements of state ...
Because Lewes was Delaware's first town and because Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, it is known as "the first town in the first state." [citation needed] 1631: Cambridge: Massachusetts: United States [16] 1632: Williamsburg: Virginia: United States: 1633: Ipswich: Massachusetts: United States: 1632: St. John's: Antigua ...
It’s also the second-oldest colonial town in North Carolina — so not the first, as Barkley Cove is described, but close — and is the county seat of Craven County.
An early pioneer of using electricity in logging camps, Landrus disappeared after the railroad was redirected through a different town. [53] [62] Laquin: Bradford County: Franklin Township: 1902 Once a booming lumber town. [53] Laurel Run: Luzerne County: N/A Semi-abandoned