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VIRGINIA DARE MARKER, FORT RALEIGH
Roanoke Island, N.C.
ON THIS SITE. IN JULY-AUGUST. 1585
(O.S.).COLONISTS, SENT OUT FROM ENGLAND
BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH, BUILT A FORT. CALL-
ED BY THEM
THE NEW FORT IN VIRGINIA
THESE COLONISTS WERE THE First SET-
TLERS OF THE ENGLISH RACE IN AMERICA.
THEY RETURNED TO ENGLAND IN JULY, 1586.
WITH SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.
NEAR THIS PLACE WAS BORN.ON. THE 18TH
OF AUGUST. 1587.
VIRGINIA DARE.
THE First CHILD OF ENGLISH PARENTS BORN
IN AMERICA-DAUGHTER OF ANANIAS DARE
AND ELEANOR WHITE HIS WIFE MEMBERS OF
ANOTHER BAND OF COLONISTS SENT OUT
SIR WALTER RALEIGH IN 1587
ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 20.1587 VIE
CINIA DARE WAS BAPTIZED. MANTED. THE
FRIENDLY CHIEF OF THE HATTERAS INDIANS
HAD BEEN BAPTIZED ON THE SUNDAY PRE-
CEDING. THESE BAPTISMS ARE THE First
KNOWN CELEBRATIONS OFA CHRISTIAN SAC-
RAMENT IN THE TERRITORY OF THE THIR-
TEEN ORIGINAL UNITED STATES.
1896
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The 354th anniversary of the birth of English
civilization in America.....Fort Raleigh, Roanoke
Island, N. C.-1587-1941.
THIS IS A GENUINE PHOTOGRAPH
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