Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
The location of the first English attempts to colonize North America, in the 1580s, including the Lost Colony, with a reconstructed earthen fort and the theater for the play The Lost Colony.
Carolina do Norte · the United States
In the destination Outer Banks.
In the photo: Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse, in Manteo
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The city
Historic village on Roanoke Island, in the lagoon between the Outer Banks and the mainland, with a small harbor, wooden boardwalk and old houses. At the north tip of the island is the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, which recalls the first English colonies in America and the Lost Colony, the Elizabethan gardens and the North Carolina aquarium.
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The local experience
The location of the first English attempts to colonize North America, in the 1580s, including the Lost Colony, with a reconstructed earthen fort and the theater for the play The Lost Colony.
Gardens inspired by 16th-century English gardens, created in the 1950s next to Fort Raleigh, on the Roanoke lagoon shore, as a tribute to the English colonists.
State aquarium on Roanoke Island dedicated to North Carolina coastal environments, featuring a large shipwreck tank, sharks, otters and sea turtles.