Last updated: March 10, 2021
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Ticket Office
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Location:
Manteo, NC
Significance:
Historical Theater
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Bicycle - Rack, Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Trash/Litter Receptacles, Wheelchair Accessible
This is where you can purchase tickets for The Lost Colony drama, which runs from late May to late August every year. Visit the Roanoke Island Historical Association website for details.
The Lost Colony
The year was 1587, twenty years before Jamestown. Here on Roanoke Island a great moment in history occurred when 116 men, women, and children planted the roots of English society on the shore at Fort Raleigh. The colonists' hopes for a better life in the New World, however, clashed with the neighboring Indians. The settlement soon disappeared but the colonists' dreams lived on.
Since the early 1900s, the residents of Roanoke Island have paid tribute to these early English beginnings by staging events each summer. Success of a 1921 movie about the ill-fated settlement led the the creation of an outdoor drama, The Lost Colony .
Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Green created the semi-fictional script from firsthand accounts. The Lost Colony is presented each summer in the outdoor Waterside Theatre by the Roanoke Island Historical Association. To the millions of people who have witnessed the play since 1937, The Lost Colony remains a tribute to those who struggled and died colonizing the New World.