Front:
Marker and Entrance to Fort Raleigh, Roanoke Island, N. C.
B.
FIRST ENGLISH COLONIES
SITE OF FIRST ENGLISH
SETTLEMENTS IN NEW
WORLD, 1585-7- BIRTHPLACE
OF VIRGINIA DARE, FIRST
CHILD BORN OF ENGLISH
PARENTS IN AMERICA. AU-
GUST 18. 1587.
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Back:
This is the site of the first attempted English
settlement in the New World, 1585-1587. Birth-
place of Virginia Dare, first child of English
parents born in America. Restoration of Fort
Raleigh as it is thought to have been in 1587
has been completed.
W. B. FEARING CO., MANTEO, N. C.
