The Lost Colony

To celebrate and depict by exhibitions, pageants, reproductions, and by broadcasting and publishing historic narratives and records, the transplanting of english-speaking civilization on roanoke island, dare county, north carolina by sir walter raleigh and his colonists in the years 1584 to 1587, and the several efforts then made to establish the first english-speaking Colony in the new world; to establish and maintain one or more areas or sites for the permanent location of buildings and other structures with the convenient facilities for preserving a historical background and representing the settlement and habits of life of the early colonists; to establish and maintain a museum of Indian and early colonial antiquities; and to effect any other activities or plans to be designed to further the preservation of this chapter of north carolina history.