The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh established an English colony on an island in what is today the

state of North Carolina. After a slow start, over 100 people moved to the island to start a new

life and established this English outpost at the edge of the new world. But when a ship returned to the island in 1590, what they found shocked them,

and began a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Learn more about the lost colony of

Roanoke and the puzzle that still challenges historians on this episode of Everything Everywhere

Daily.

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The first colonies established by Europeans in North America were the 16th century equivalent of lunar bases.

A bunch of people were sent to live in a place they didn't know or understand, where they were often unprepared for the weather,

and surrounded by native people who didn't particularly want them there.

Just like with space travel, there were several failures before there was success.

Many people are aware of the first permanent English settlement in North America in Jamestown, Virginia, established in 1607.

Jamestown may have been the first success, but it was hardly the first attempt.

The English claims to North America were first made by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1578.

He was given a very vague charter by Queen Elizabeth I to explore and colonize any, quote,

unclaimed Christian kingdoms. He claimed everything north of Spanish, Florida, for England.

However, he died sailing back to England in 1583. Gilbert's charter was

then split between his brother Adrian Gilbert and his half-brother, the English explorer and sailor,

Sir Walter Raleigh. Adrian was given Newfoundland and everything to the north, which at the time

was considered the Plum Territory because it would have contained the sought-after Northwest Passage. Walter was given everything to the south. No one living there, of course,

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