Colony was created in 1587 and "disappeared" by 1590.

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Sponsored by Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh

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An island off the cost of North Carolina that became the first English settlement

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All that remained of the colony was the word CROATOAN carved into a post

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Captain John White became the governor of the colony; was forced to return to England to gather supplies

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Problem with colony: War with Spain prevented supplies from being sent

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Problem with colony: Soil was bad for farming, mosquitos carried malaria

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Settlers arrived to set up the colony in1607

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Problem with colony: Disease killed half in the 1st winter

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Sponsored by the Virginia Company of London.

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