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POPSTHE MYSTERIOUS “WOMEN’S TOWNE” OF NORTH CAROLINA THE MYSTERIOUS “WOMEN’S TOWNE” OF NORTH CAROLINA The earliest illustrations of North Carolina, painted by the artist John White, are coming to America this October. White traveled with a company of Englishmen who explored the region and left tantalizing records of their discoveries. One of their most unusual finds, an Indian “Women’s Towne,” was never illustrated or explained.
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POPSThe First Colony on Roanoke Island
The first Colony at Roanoke Predated the Lost Colony by two years. Mistakes made then by the military expedition in relations with the Native Americans probaby doomed the Lost Colonists. Lane's fort on Roanoke Island resembled in some noteworthy respects the fort which he had built on St. Johns Island, Puerto Rico, in May 1585, when he seized the salt supply. Both forts seem to have been roughly shaped like a star built on a square with the bastions constructed on the sides of the square instead of at the corners, as was common in later fortifications. Copies of the plans of these forts may be seen in the Fort Raleigh museum. The dwelling houses of the early colonists were near the fort, which was too small to enclose them. They were described by the colonists themselves as "decent dwelling houses" or "cottages" and must have been at least a story and a half or two stories high, because we have a reference to the "neather roomes of them." The roofs were thatched, as we learn
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POPSFamily Roots Tied to Croatan Tribe These family names -- Elks, Buck, Carrow, Hodges and Gibbs -- may sound like a reading of telephone listings for Chocowinity, but one researcher is attempting to relate these names with a greater meaning, deep in the Indian history of eastern North Carolina.
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POPSJamestown Discovery High Point of Archeaologist Kelso's Life One rainy autumn day in September 1996, archaeologist William Kelso '71PhD came face to face with one of America's first European settlers. The human skeleton he and his crew discovered during their excavation of Virginia's James Fort, the first permanent English settlement on this continent, lay supine in a large shaft under a leaky protective tent. Near the figure were a few iron nails and faint soil impressions left by the wooden coffin that had decomposed around it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I've never been tall enough to make a slam dunk," says Kelso, whose easygoing, understated manner belies his emotional stake in the discovery. "But I think this is what it would feel like. It's been the highlight of my life." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It took the archaeologists fourteen hours to lift the skeleton (removed intact to allow study in its burial position) by
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