On this day in 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returned from a supply trip to England to find that all of the colony’s 100+ inhabitants had disappeared. The Lost Colony is still one of the great unsolved mysteries of American history. Though White found remnants of the colonists, such as maps, […]

On August 18, 1774, Meriwether Lewis, famous explorer and co-captain of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was born in near Charlottesville, Virginia. Before the famous expedition, he served in the military and as presidential secretary to Thomas Jefferson. Did you know? Lewis met William Clark after being court-martialed. Though he was acquitted of charges that […]