The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1937, Page 10

BUT WHETHER THE MYSTERY IS EVER SOLVED OR NOT, ONE MAY VISIT HISTORIC OLD ROANOKE- 1SLAND TODAY AND SEE A REPRODUCTION OF RALEIGHS LOST COLONY AS IT LOOKED IN 1587 RECENTLY ERECTED BY WPA CREWS. HERE (@ AND HERE IS A REPLICA OF THE QUAINT LOG CHAPEL IN WHICH THE SETTLERS WORSHIPPED, AND WHERE VIRGINIA DARE wWAS ARE SJOME VIEWS OF THE RESTORATIONS eD A [ ASHEDS , WHO CHE! A DREAM OF BUILDING HERE ON AUGUST 18,1587, VIRGINIA DARE, THE FIRQST AMERICAN CHILD OF ENGUISH PARENTS, WAS BORN UNHAPPILY, THINGS WENT BADLY FOR THE B PROTECTING PALISADE STANDS ON RANT PINE WOODS. WHEN HE FINALLY GOT BACK 70 ROANOKE HE FOUND THE SETTLEMENT ABANDONEPD SAVE THE WORD FEVERISHLY FOR THEM, THE VANISHED COLONISTS WERE NEVER SEEN AGAIN, AND THEIRQ FATE HAS REMAINED A MYSTERY EVER SINCE. 1T4S BELIEVED THAT THE SETTLERS, ORIVEN BY STARVATION, SETOUT TO SEEK FOOD ON A NEIGHBORING ISLAND, ONLY TO BE MASSACRED BY HOSTILE INDIANS....SOME SAY THATA FEW SURVIVORS WANDERED OFF INTO THE WILDS AND WERE ADOPTED 8Y A FRIENDLY TRIBE- Di1SCOURAGED BY THIS TRAGEDY, RALEIGH GAVE UP “THE ILL-FATED PROJECT OHER HISTORIC FHRINES OF WORLD-WIDE INTEREST ARQE BEING RESTOREJ, AND WE SHALL HAVE MORE PICTURES AND STORIES ABOUT THEM FROM TIME- TOTIME= srevvonr v cones N EARLY OCEAN-GOING PLEASURE YACHT, "CLEOPATRA'S BARGE-" OF SALEM WAS BUILT BY CAPTAIN GeEOoRGE (ROWNINSHIELD, THE AMERICAN MERCHANT PRINCE, IN 1816 -~ AFTER. CROWNINSHIELD DIED "CLEOPATRA'S BARGE “ BECAME THE ROYAL YACHT OF KiNG KAMEHAMEHA I OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS (Hawan), s § - 2)oGs WERE SCARCE AND vERY -mvummwcf%wm ATHENIAN OF THE 5™ CENTURY B ALCIBIADES, OWNED A HOUND