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Travel back in time to late 16th century North America, when the the first major waves of white, European settlers migrated to the continent from countries like England. We’ll focus on the "lost” colony of Roanoke Island; a group of English immigrants who settled in modern-day North Carolina, but then vanished—and whose fate is still unknown today.