The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-26
TO PRESERVE ROANOKE
ROANOKE COLONY MEMORIAL
ASSOCIATs TON HOLDS ITS
ANNUAL MEETING.
BOUNDARIES or FORT RALEIGH"

Vessels Have LAID at "Batias'
Point'' TOR Three Centuries.
The annual meeting Of the Roanoke
Colony Memorial Association was held
at the Marlborough House.
The members present, in person, we're
Major Graham Davis, Mrs Sallie $ Cot.
ten, Mrs Alice de r Dawes, Mr.. Richard
Il. Battle, Captain S. A. Ashe and Mr.
Marshall Delaney Haywood
Major Dawes, president Of the society,
was chairman and MIR, Haywood was
secretary pro tenn.
Ninety-two shares of stock, ~ more
than quorum, we're represented either
in person or by proxy.
Mr. Henry A Brown, civil engineer,
of Newbern, was accorded vote OF
thanks by the meeting for valuable pro
fessional services, rendered free OF
charge to the Association, in marking out
the bounds of the old fort at Roanoke
and making drawings of the same The
president was also directed to issue one
of the shares of stock in the company to
Mr.. Brown.
A committee, consisting of the Rev.
Dr. Drane, Of Edenton, aud Mr.. K. Ii.
Battle, of this city, rendered IFS report
of resolutions on the death of the aooie-
tvs late president, Prof Edward Graham
Dawes, OF Baltimore, Md, which was or
dered to be spread on the minutes. This
gifted scholar was the society'5 first pres
dent, ard s Organiz ltion was chiefly The
result of his labors He was a natiV6 OF
North Carolina but for many years pre-
vious 10 his death resided in Baltimore,
Md.
The president was authorized to ascer-
tain the cost Of rock-w0rk necessary for
building a coping around the fortress
erected by Raleigh's colony, and to have
it doue, if desirable
A resolution was also adopted in ap
probation of the interest M infested IN
the association by Mr.. Louis Jackson, Of
St. Louis, Mo, with directions to the
president to present him, on behalf OF
the association, with one of the shares OF
IFS capital stock.
The 18th section OF the bylaws $50
amended so as to make the regular yearly
meeting occur on the 9th of April, in
Edenton, N c., in commemoration Of
the sailing Of Amadas and B3rlOwe,
from England to Roanoke, April 97ah,
1884.
Mai Graham Dares, OF Nowbern, was
re elected president; Mr.. ". d Pruden,
of Edenton, vice president, and DR.. John
S Bassett, of Trinity College, secretary
and treasurer.
The old board of directors was re
elected.
President Dawes, in his annual Report,
says:
of about ten acres of land on Roanoke
Island, has been bought and paid for. as
have also about 240 acres additional, ly
ing near the fort The two tracts were
sold together aud the Fort tract could
not be obtaiGed separate from the other
The larger tract, a good piece OF land for
farming or trucking, portion cleared,
and the remainder we'll timD8red; in
cludes also a fac fishing beach. 1t is
not wanted for the purposes Of tie a5so
citation, AMI it Is recommended that II
be sold whenever a fair price can be bad
for it
1.-The properly of the Association has
been exempted from taxation by Act OF
Assembly.
The Fort tract has been recently sur
veyed by Henry q. Brown, Esq, civil
engineer OF Newbern, and its boundaries
carefully noted. 1t was ascertained that
the southern boundary of that tract as
cal.ed for by the deed, ran much too
near the site Of the Fort. A new line
was, therefore, run from the public road
to Roanoke Sound, and by Mr.. Browns
efforts the consent Of the owners OF the
land adjoining was obtained 10 make
this new lIue the proper southern bound
ary of the tract. The necessary papers
will have to be executed embody ing this
valuable concession and duly recorded
The site Of the Fort il less than quar-
ter of a mile from Roanoke Sound.
at is i p0rtant that the metes aud
bounds of the Fort tract should be
plainly marked with corner posts Of
stone, or other durable material, and
this / shall have done as soon az p1s
soIe.
"Mr. Brown has made Al excellent
q awing of the plan Of Fort K leigh,
which, which, with his report Of Cne sur
vey. IL submitted herewith. His suggo3
lions as to the restoration and perma
nent marking Of the outlines Of the fort
are well worthy OF attention, and the
material he recommends FIR the pur
pose-rhe slelI rock or sc quIna", found
near NJ wOegn--is not ouiy excellent,
but is much less expensive than even the
commoner grade Of granite or other
stone, and is equally durable.
"The laying out of the grounds on
the Island, d the erection Of suitable
memorials to Sir Walter Raleigh and to
his i'll fated c0lonists, must wait the
time, which | think will surely come,
when the increased means of the Asso
citation will enable it to make the re-
quisite ltlay. In some way, as part
for instance of memorial or of other
permanent work at the Fort, it occurs
to me that it would be appropriate to
use the stone thrown overheard by
Captains Amadas and Barlowe at BAL
last Point at the time of their voyage
of discoveries to the Island in 1884.
Ballast Point is quite near the village Of