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Like the wind-blown live oaks that dot the landscape, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site has been shaped by people throughout history. Explore the lives of the Algonquian-speaking people who called Roanoke Island home. Delve itno the English colonizers who tried to create a new English home in the New World. Read about the freedom-seeking people who came her during the Civil War to escape the bonds of slavery. And learn about more recent history with the people who have shaped Fort Raleigh in the 20th century. Come see the diverse history of this island's people and how they helped shape the world we know today.
The Algonquian-speaking people thrived in the Outer Banks calling this place home before anyone else.
Between 1584 and 1590, multitudes of English people engaged in the colonization of Roanoke Island
The Freedmen's Colony brough in thousands of enslaved people, members of the Army, administrators and more to create the colony.
The 20th Century brought inventors, playwrights, actors, and more to Fort Raleigh and Roanoke Island
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Last updated: September 23, 2026