History buff thinks he has found 1585 English fort:
Amateur historian Scott Dawson thinks he has found what archaeologists and historians have sought for decades — the site of an English fort on Roanoke Island linked to the legendary Lost Colony.Dawson, a Civil War buff, said that documents written centuries apart led him to an overgrown tract where he believes explorer Ralph Lane established a settlement in 1585.
The site, on the northern end of the island about 200 miles east of Raleigh, is on National Park Service property but not within the Fort Raleigh Historic Site or the area targeted by dozens of searches.
