{"id":6627,"date":"2026-08-18T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:44:28","slug":"john-white-virginia-dare-and-roanoke-1587","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6627","title":{"rendered":"John White, Virginia Dare, and Roanoke &#8211; 1587"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, two events connecting John White and Roanoke occurred:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Virginia Dare in 1587 was the first child of Europeans to be born in the colonies. Her grandfather was John White, a leader of the Roanoke colony.<\/strong> He and his group had arrived at Roanoke on July 22. He returned to England for more supplies and more people. However, wars and other events delayed his voyage back.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John White came back to Roanoke on August 18, 1590\u00a0<\/strong>to find that the Roanoke colony (and his granddaughter) had disappeared. Children could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/fora\/learn\/education\/search-for-the-lost-colony.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lost Colony<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, two events connecting John White and Roanoke occurred: Virginia Dare in 1587 was the first child of Europeans to be born in the colonies. Her grandfather was John White, a leader of the Roanoke colony. He and his group had arrived at Roanoke on July 22. He returned to England for more <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6627' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5735,5793,5792,802,804,1204,1203],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5735","tag-5793","tag-august-18","tag-john-white","tag-lost-colony","tag-roanoke","tag-virginia-dare","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22832,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/22832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}