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prior to jamestown what was the name of the unsuccessful colony in Virginia that was coined the name "the lost colony?

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The "lost colony" was called Roanoke. The people in this colony mysteriously disappeared (dun dun duuun!) a few years after its establishment. It was established in 1589 in what is now North Carolina.
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