The Lost Colony
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About 755 miles
188 miles taking this route:Take I-64 WEST from Richmond to I-81 SOUTH.Continue on I-81 SOUTH to Roanoke. To get to DOWNTOWN, take I-581 SOUTH (EXIT 143 off I-81).
Virginia Dare was the first English child to be born in the new world. She was with the colony we call the lost colony. Legend has it that she is the white doe that appears every once and a while on Roanoke Island where the colony had their settlement.
The first English overseas settlements were established in North America and the West Indies, quickly followed by trading posts called "factories" in the East Indies, such as Bantam, and in the Indian subcontinent, beginning with Surat. In 1639 a series of English fortresses on the Indian coast was initiated with Fort St George. In 1661, the marriage of King Charles II to Catherine of Braganza brought him as part of her dowry new possessions which had been Portuguese, including Tangier in North Africa and Bombay in India.