Bertie County

Some contacts also date beyond the narrow period of the colony's disappearance, As University of Bristol researcher Mark Horton cautioned, these are still just clues.

A different question lies inland near Western Albemarle Sound in Bertie County, at a location known as Site X.

Did a small group move toward an inland site that English planners had considered before the Chesapeake plan failed? Interest intensified after the British Museum examined John White's map, La Virginia Pass.

In 2012, specialists examining a paper patch found beneath it a small red and blue symbol resembling a fort near the western Albemarle Sound.

And when you say thick, like maggots, how many are you moving in a day?

Well, I went down to Bertie County a few years in a row.

A guy I knew got us in there.

And they had a clubhouse and all that.

... to lift their lives.

So in this Bertie County in North Carolina, um, a very low income area, um, it was one of the most tobacco dependent counties.

So it just relied on tobacco crops and lots of, uh, disparities of income.

So long story short, the superintendent asked to see me, and it was perplexing, but it hit me home, it hit home with my own story.