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Brenau president investigates, fascinated by lost colony of Roanoke
University holds original 'Dare Stone' in its collection
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Brenau University Preside Ed Schrader holds photos of the University's stone, regarded by most authorities as the only Dare Stone, which shows the inscriptions more clearly. The stone first surfaced surfaced in 1937 when a California man found it during a driving trip through the Carolina coastal region. The 21-pound stone was then delivered to the history department of Emory University. - photo by Scott Rogers
They were the first. Then they were gone. Forever. But the search has never ceased for the lost colonists of Roanoke Island. Now, Brenau University President Ed Schrader is among a new crop of scientific clue-hunters to explore the fate of the original 115 English colonists off the coast of present-day North Carolina in 1587.