Long ago,King Charles the Second of England added the colony's coat of arms to his shield.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

He never succeeded. John White never knew what happened to the colony or his family.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The Lowell family first came to the colony of Massachussetts in sixteen thirty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

After several years of working in the colony, he himself developed leprosy.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

The king named the colony Pennsylvania in honor of Penn's father.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Patrick Henry is most famous for a speech he gave in seventeen seventy-five to support his proposal to raise forces to defend the colony of Virginia against the British.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Colonial Williamsburg consists of 120 hectares of authentic and restored buildings and landmarks dating to the Revolutionary War and even back further - to the first British settlers who started a plantation and later built the colony.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

The research is part of a project to search on land and in the water for remains of the Lost Colony.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

A North Carolina lawyer named Phil Evans organized a group called the First Colony Foundation to raise money for this purpose.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

In sixteen eighty-one, King Charles the Second of England gave William Penn a large amount of land to establish a colony.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Both countries claimed land that bordered the British colony of Guiana on the northeast coast of South America.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

For now,the mystery of America's Lost Colony is a story whose ending remains to be written.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The most interesting theory about the Lost Colony started with a rock found in nineteen thirty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The former French colony in the Caribbean has a history of political violence and natural disasters.

VOA: special.2010.01.16