Introduction

Imagine this: One morning, you pick up the newspaper and glance at the front page. In large bold letters across the top, you see:

"Entire Community Disappears!"

What would you do? Would you call someone? Would you put the paper down and go back to sleep? Would you think about it while you ate breakfast? Or, would you go looking for clues?
If you had lived in 1590 (and if they had newspapers then), you might have seen this headline. The Colony of Roanoke was the first English settlement here in what would become the United States. When John White, one of the original settlers, came back to Roanoke after leaving for supplies, he found that the entire colony had disappeared, including his daughter and granddaughter. Your mission is to find information about this lost colony.