Forgotten Stones May Give Clues to Fate Of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony of 1587
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. — (UPI)— A pile of stones once thought to be the key to a fascinating historical mystery—the fate of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony—lies forgotten today in a storeroom at Brenau College.
They are the Eleanor Dare Stones. In the late 1930's they made front page headlines across the country, only to sink into obscurity when doubt was cast on their authenticity.
Twenty-six years after the first stone was found, most of the tablets on which crude Elizabethan English is crawled are in the dark basement of a Brenau College building.
A PUBLIC RELATIONS specialist for the college said: "They're stacked up in a corner of an old storeroom." She said she had never heard of the stones until a newsman requested information about them.
At least one of the stones, which some historians still say is authentic, is under the lock and key of Brenau College President Josiah Crudau.
In 1937, a tourist from California noticed a small rock sticking out of the mud on the bank of the Chowan River in North Carolina—about 50 miles from the original site of the Lost Colony. A crude cross carved on the face of the rock drew his attention. Closer inspection revealed this inscription under the cross:
"ANANIAS DARE and Virginia went hence unto heaven 1591—any Englishman shew John White govr Via." The inscription was signed "Fleeman Dare."
That discovery was the beginning of an amazing and controversial chapter of American historical research. In the next three years 46 other inscribed stones, all purportedly dealing with the fate of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island,
were found in the Saluda River Valley of South Carolina and the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia.
FOR MORE than three centuries, the fate of the colony Sir Walter Raleigh established on Roanoke Island in 1587 has been a mystery. After the settlers were housed and the colony rooted, Governor John White sailed back to England for supplies. His arrival coincided with a general mobilization of all English ships for protection against the Spanish Armada. It was four years before Queen Elizabeth would permit his return to the New World.
When he returned to Roanoke Island, White found not a trace of the settlement he had left. The sole possible clue to the fate of the settlers was the word "Croatan" carved on a tree trunk.
WHITE, AFTER a search of the area, returned to England and reported all members of the colony lost—including his daughter, Eleanor White Dare, her husband Ananias Dare, and their baby daughter, Virginia, the first English child born in America.
The California tourist who found the stone in North Carolina took it to Atlanta and turned it over to Brenau College officials. Another inscription was found on the reverse side. It told of the escape of G1 colonists from Roanoke Island and their flight through the wilderness to escape marauding Indians, who finally killed all but seven. The dead were buried on a "small hill" the stone said, and their graves marked with similarly-carved stones.
THE FOLLOWING spring, 1938, nine more stones were found in South Carolina. They told of hardship and Indian attacks, and said
the surviving colonists had decided to travel inland toward the country of the friendly Cherokees.
Months later, the trail was picked up again—this time in the Chattawahooche River Valley of North Georgia. Stones were found scattered along the valley down to the site of a big Cherokee village. The stones said Eleanor and the surviving colonists dwelt at peace. Eleanor married an Indian king and bore him a daughter, according to a message on one rock.
All the stones were collected at Brenau College and a call was sent out to historians and scientists to verify their authenticity.
EVEN AFTER this, Georgia Tech Professor Count Gibson, head of the school's geology department, examined three of the tablets in the collection and said that as far as he and his colleagues could tell they had not been tampered with for decades.
DR. S. E. MORISON, president of the American Antiquarian Society, along with a group of historians, examined them. They gave them a qualified blessing and said "the preponderance of evidence points to the authenticity of the Dare Stones." But they recommended additional research before any "final, conclusive statement" was issued.
The stones, however, were taken off display at Brenau College and ended up in a storeroom, neglected and half-forgotten, with the fate of the Lost Colony remaining the fascinating mystery it has always been.
This final statement was never issued. Shortly afterward, published articles cast strong doubts as to the authenticity of the stones and they faded from public interest.
Hills and Getting Up at 6 Are Shock to Camper from Guam
By Jacquie Glaser
Climbing hills was not what 15-year-old Shelby Shapiro from Guam thought he would be doing on the KU campus this summer as he first anticipated coming to the United States to participate in the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
"I thought Kansas was as flat as this table," said Shelby, "but my mind was changed when I saw Lawrence!"
The small-framed junior is enrolled in the Science Division of the camp. He is taking microbiology, zoology, and anthropology, and he says he likes these classes very much.
IT HARDLY SEEMS possible, but Shelly said Guam is much more humid than Kansas! The tropical island has no industry at all, but there is much agriculture.
Although the country is not as modern as the United States, almost all of Guam's people drive cars. There are also many trucks on the island, but no buses for public transportation. The only buses seen on the
island are government- or military-owned buses.
The Shapiro home is made of concrete block, in order to give the family protection from the frequent typhoons which hit the island. However, most of the homes on the island are merely quosset huts.
SHELBY'S FATHER, who is a private attorney, moved his family to Guam from the United States eight years ago. Even though Shelby was born in San Francisco, he could not remember anything about the United States. Shelby is the oldest of the three Shapiro children.
Asked if there was anything he did not particularly like about camp, he said, "Six o'clock is not the best time to get up. . ." Then a girl sitting nearby asked what time he got up in Guam and he answered, "Six! But, I still do not like it!"
How will Shelby use the knowledge he gains at KU this summer? Well, he plans to attend college and will later become a psychiatrist. Perhaps we will hear about this black-haired boy again.
Ford Blasts UAW Policy
DETROIT — (UPI) — Ford Motor Co. has charged the United Auto Workers Union with regarding authorized strikes as a "convenient outlet for local militancy."
The charge was lodged in a strongly worded statement that accompanied demands for changes in seven sections of the current UAW-Ford contract covering 124,000 workers.
It marked the first time Ford laid demands on the bargaining table in this summer's round of negotiations to write a new three-year contract to replace the current pact which expires Aug. 31.
Manton M. Cummins, director of Ford's labor affairs office, said "the company believes that the present Ford-UAW working agreement is generally acceptable. There are, nevertheless, some aspects of it which have proven highly unsatisfactory and it is only in these areas that we will propose modifications."
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