Some words and terms which may not be familiar are underlined in the story and explained in the section called Some Neat Stuff Reproduction of the booklet by educators is permitted and encouraged. Credit should be given to the National Park Service, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. About Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Fort Raleigh is located on the north end of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, on US Hwy 64. It incorporates part of the Civil War battlefield and prison camp and there is a memorial exhibit to the Freedmen s Colony. The park is open every day except Christmas and all National Park Service activities are free.
Groups are welcome.
Freedom Comes to Roanoke Island Introduction Almost four hundred years ago a group of families from the country of England built the first permanent town on the shores of the New World of America. This settlement, called Jamestown, was named after James I, the King of England. It was in the area of the New World called Virginia. Jamestown was not the first town, or colony , that English people had built in Virginia but it was the first one that actually worked. Twenty years before, a colony had been started about one hundred miles south of Jamestown, on Roanoke Island, but the people there disappeared, never to be seen again.