Atlantic Ocean at Corolla NCA cold November day at the beach!Displays at the Roanoke Island Festival Park, Manteo NC. This is an interpretation of an Algonquian Indian village. This is the leader’s house.Inside of the leader’s house.Carved posts formed a circle for The Dance Circle.Canoe carved out of a tree. The Indians used seashells to scrape out the wood that had been softened with fire.Pole and slat frame called a hurdle, used for cooking fish and meat.Pillory.Fishing weirs, used by Indians to catch fish.Colonial camp tentBlacksmithThe first English colony in America was here at Roanoke Island NC.The first colony was settled in 1584.By 1590, the colony had disappeared, and it has never been discovered what happened to the “Lost Colony”.The first permanent English colony was settled at Jamestown VA in 1607.First English baby born in the New World in 1587, named Virginia Dare.Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse.Jockey’s Ridge State Park, Nags Head NC. Decent hike to the top of the dunes.In the distance, Albemarle Sound.Atlantic Ocean in view.Historic Corolla Chapel.
