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The original colony was established in 1585 as a military outpost under the command of Ralph Lane, and evacuated in 1586. A list of colonists is provided in Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, And Discoveries Of The English Nation, although no author is recorded for the list. The list denotes 107 men who served ...
Sir Ralph Lane (c. 1532 – October 1603) [1] [2] was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era. He helped colonise the Kingdom of Ireland in 1583 and was sheriff of County Kerry, Ireland, from 1583 to 1585. [3] He was part of the unsuccessful attempt in 1585 to colonise Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He was knighted by the Queen in 1593.
Sir Ralph Lane, governor of Roanoke (1585–1586) John White, governor of Raleigh (1587–1590) Governors of Albemarle, 1664–1689
Waterside Theatre. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site was established on April 5, 1941, through a transfer of property to the National Park Service under a cooperative agreement with the Roanoke Island Historical Association (RIHA) and Acting Secretary of the Interior Alvin J. Wirtz, using authority provided under the Historic Sites Act of 1935.
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Roanoke Colony was founded by the governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. [1] Lane's colony was troubled by a lack of supplies and poor relations with some of the local Native American tribes.
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Park went to college at the University of Texas, where he played football for the Texas Longhorns from 1939 to 1943, lettering in 1940, 1942 and 1943. After getting dropped from the team due to knee surgery in 1941, [ 3 ] he returned in 1942 still prone to charley horses, which led to the nickname "Pulled Muscle Park".