00:00 The Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the New World, was settled in Roanoke, North Carolina, by Sir Walter Raleigh.

04:06 The first attempt to settle the island of Roanoke in 1585 was unsuccessful, with the expedition returning to England after 10 months due to lack of food and conflict with local tribes, but a second expedition in 1587 led by John White aimed to establish a real settlement with families and children.

08:17 The second attempt to settle Roanoke was initially successful, with the colonists building cottages, making friends with some tribes, and even having the first English child born in the New World, but when John White returned to Roanoke after a three-year delay, he found no trace of the colonists except for a fort that had been assembled and the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree.

12:39 John White, upon finding no trace of the colonists at Roanoke except for the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree, believed that they had gone to the nearby island where friendly Indians lived, and although he never went to investigate, it wasn't until Jamestown was established in 1607 that expeditions were sent to search for the lost colonists.

16:32 The colonists of the lost colony at Roanoke are still missing and there are various theories, but none fully explain what happened.

20:18 One theory is that the Roanoke colony was sabotaged by rivals of Sir Walter Raleigh who wanted to prove that he couldn't establish an English colony in the New World.

24:30 The Roanoke colonists may have been stranded in a hostile area with limited supplies and caught up in a shift of power among tribes, potentially leading to their deaths or enslavement.

28:32 The First Colony Foundation found evidence on a 425-year-old map that suggests the Roanoke colonists moved westward up the Albemarle sound to the confluence of the Chowen and Roanoke rivers, where they intended to establish a fort.

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