Fort Raleigh

NE shore of Roanoke Island, E Dare County. The remains of the earthen fort, constructed in 1585 by Ralph Lane's colony, were reconstructed in 1950 by the National Park Service after extensive archaeological study. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. The Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and the Waterside Theatre—at which Paul Green's symphonic drama, The Lost Colony, has been presented in the summer since 1937—are there. An Elizabethan Garden maintained by the Garden Club of North Carolina and a museum are also nearby.