Vanishing Village

2/15/2016

Josias Allestad

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Vanishing village

            Once upon a time, in the year 1565, the first settlement in the New World was built by the Spanish. Then, many years later, the English also endeavored to try this great task. They then sailed across the Sea of Darkness to a place in the New World called Roanoke Island, which is off the coast of what is now North Carolina. They used most of their supplies they brought, so they hastily sent for their governor John White to bring help from their home country to resolve their problem. John White finally arrived at the colony, but what he found was much unexpected. The entire colony had mysteriously vanished! The only clue to their whereabouts was in the appalling scribbles on a tree trunk. It read Croatan. He probably looked for there for them, but they were nowhere to be found. Even to this day, no one knows what to presume about this Vanishing Village.