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Article: NEW HINTS TO LOST COLONISTS FOUND SETTLERS MAY HAVE GONE WEST WITH THE CROATAN INDIAN PEOPLE.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2001
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Byline: CATHERINE KOZAK THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT\
GUM NECK -- GUM NECK - The mystery comes with tantalizing clues. A twisted skeleton. A gold ring. Shadows under the earth.
Another page is turning in the story of the fate of the hapless Lost Colony and the native population it depended on.
Independent scholar and archaeologist Fred Willard, director of the Lost Colony Center for Science & Research, says many residents of at least two communities on high ground in northeastern North Carolina may be descendants of the Croatan Indians, a tribe lost to history more than two centuries ago.
And new information is supporting his hypothesis that Sir ...