Virginia Dare was born in the Roanoke Colony in what is now North Carolina in August 1587, the first child of English parents born in the New World. "Elenora, daughter to the governor of the city and wife to Ananias … See more

Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore in the more than four hundred years since her birth, representing different things to different people. A 2000 article in the Piedmont (North Carolina) Triad News and Record noted that … See more

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• Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World, Giles Milton, Sceptre, 2001, ISBN 0-340-74882-6
• Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century, Mrs. E. A. B. Shackelford, Published by Thomas Whittaker, New York, 1892 See more

Nothing is known for certain of the fate of Virginia Dare or her fellow colonists. Governor White found no sign of a struggle or battle. The only clue to the colonists' fate was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post of the fort, and the letters "Cro" carved … See more

• SS Virginia Dare was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.
• Schooner Virginia Dare, 89.41 tons, built in 1883 in Essex and owned by Pool, Gardner & Co. of See more

1. ^ "Virginia Dare". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
2. ^ Hawks, Francis L. (1857). History of North Carolina: Embracing the period between the first voyage to the colony in 1584, to the last in 1591 See more