On this day in 1587, Virginia Dare, the first English child born in a New World English colony, is born on Roanoke Island in what would become North Carolina.

Learn about the Roanoke Colony’s disappearance from the journals of Virigina’s grandfather, John White.

Today is August 18, 2020.

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