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What colony was Carolina originally settled by?


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"lost colony of Roanoke"

Roanoke. The first European settlement in what is today North Carolina—indeed, the first English settlement in the New World—was the "lost colony of Roanoke," founded by the English explorer and poet Walter Raleigh in 1587.

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