Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site provided by the United States of America under a protective historic site in the state of North Carolina. On the site, which is managed by the National Park Service, the first English settlement in North America was built in Roanoke, the so-called Lost Colony ( Lost Colony )

The over 2.8 square kilometers stretching historic site is located adjacent to the U.S. Highway 64 at the north end of Roanoke Island in North Carolina, about 5 kilometers north of the town Manteo at the coordinates N 35 ° 56'317 " W and 75 ° 42'33 " 35.93818 - 75.70904Koordinaten: 35 ° 56 ' 17 "N, 75 ° 42' 33 " W. the fate of the lost colony of Sir Walter Raleigh remains a mystery. Every year more than 270,000 people, the historic site ( 2005), which is located in the district of Dare County.

The site is also venue of the symphonic drama by Paul Green: "The Lost Colony", that is since 1937 listed every summer at Open Air Theatre Waterside Theatre and presented by the Roanoke Iceland Historical Association. In addition, the Elizabethan Gardens belong to the historic site, they are managed by the Garden Club of North Carolina and commemorate the first settlers to the plant a garden from that time.

Management of the park

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site was made possible on 5 April 1941 by a transfer of the land to the National Park Service in cooperation with the Roanoke Iceland Historical Association ( RIHA ) and furnished the Secretary of State Alvin J. Wirtz and by the Historic Sites Act of 1935. Like all historical sites, which is the National Park Service manages also listed this iseit October 15, 1966 historical in the National Register of significant places ( National Register of Historic Places ). Fort Raleigh is supervised jointly with two other historic sites in the Outer Banks, the Wright Brothers National Memorial and Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The seat of the administration of all three areas is located on the north end of Roanoke Island. The 1941 agreement reached allows the RIHA both the theater and the park itself to be used for theatrical performances. The play " The Lost Colony" is listed annually except for a break during World War II since 1937.

The site is preserved because of their importance in the first English settlement of North America in 1587 and protected by the state union, even if the colony and the population in the years 1587-1590 by the delay in the supply of inventories of failed up to now unknown reasons.