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Virginia Dare
Virginia Dare
	US postage stamp issued in 1937, the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth
Born	Virginia Dare; August 18, 1587; Roanoke Colony (present-day North Carolina)
Disappeared	before August 18, 1590
Known for	first English child born in the New World
Parents	Ananias Dare (father); Eleanor White (mother);

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Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587; date of death unknown) was the first English child born in an American English colony.^[2]

What became of Virginia and the other colonists remains a mystery. The fact of her birth is known because John White, Virginia's grandfather and the governor of the colony, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies. When White eventually returned three years later, the colonists were gone.

During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people. She has been featured as a main character in books, poems, songs, comic books, television programs, and films. Her name has been used to sell different types of goods, from vanilla products to soft drinks, as well as wine and spirits. Many places in North Carolina and elsewhere in the Southern United States have been named in her honor.

Biography

Virginia Dare was born in the Roanoke Colony in what is now North Carolina in August 1587, the first child born in the New World to English parents. "Elenora, daughter to the governor of the city and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoke".^[2]

Little is known of the lives of either of her parents. Her mother Eleanor was born in London around 1563 and was the daughter of John White, the governor of the ill-fated Roanoke Colony. Eleanor married Ananias Dare (born c. 1560), a London tiler and bricklayer,^[3] at St Bride's Church^[4] on Fleet Street in the City of London.^[5] He, too, was part of the Roanoke expedition. Virginia Dare was one of two infants born to the colonists in 1587 and the only female child known to have been born to the settlers.

Nothing else is known of Virginia Dare's life, as the Roanoke Colony did not endure. Virginia's grandfather John White sailed for England for fresh supplies at the end of 1587, having established his colony. Because England's war with Spain brought about a pressing need for ships to defend against the Spanish Armada, he was unable to return to Roanoke until August 18, 1590, by which time he found that the settlement had been long deserted. The buildings had collapsed and "the houses [were] taken down". Worse, White was unable to find any trace of his daughter or granddaughter, or indeed any of the 80 men, 17 women, and 11 children who made up the "Lost Colony".^[6]

Mystery of the "Lost Colony" (Roanoke)

The return of Governor White to the "Lost Colony"

Nothing is known for certain of the fate of Virginia Dare or her fellow colonists. Governor White found no sign of a struggle or battle. The only clue to the colonists' fate was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post of the fort, and the letters "Cro" carved into a nearby tree. All the houses and fortifications had been dismantled, suggesting that their departure had not been hurried. Before he had left the colony, White had instructed them that, if anything happened to them, they should carve a Maltese cross on a tree nearby, indicating that their disappearance had been forced. There was no cross, and White took this to mean that they had moved to Croatoan Island (now known as Hatteras Island), but he was unable to conduct a search.

There are a number of theories regarding the fate of the colonists, the most widely accepted one being that they sought shelter with local Indian tribes, and either intermarried with the natives or were killed. In 1607, John Smith and other members of the successful Jamestown Colony sought information about the fate of the Roanoke colonists. One report indicated that the survivors had taken refuge with friendly Chesapeake Indians, but Chief Powhatan claimed that his tribe had attacked the group and killed most of the colonists. Powhatan showed Smith certain artifacts that he said had belonged to the colonists, including a musket barrel and a brass mortar and pestle. However, no archaeological evidence exists to support this claim. The Jamestown Colony received reports of some survivors of the Lost Colony and sent out search parties, but none were successful. Eventually they determined that all survivors had died.^[7]

William Strachey, a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia in 1612 that there were reportedly two-story houses with stone walls at the Indian settlements of Peccarecanick and Ochanahoen. The Indians supposedly learned how to build them from the Roanoke settlers.^[8] There were also reported sightings of European captives at various Indian settlements during the same time period.^[9] Strachey also wrote that four English men, two boys, and one maid had been sighted at the Eno settlement of Ritanoc, under the protection of a chief called Eyanoco. The captives were forced to beat copper. The captives, he reported, had escaped the attack on the other colonists and fled up the Chaonoke river, the present-day Chowan River in Bertie County, North Carolina.^[8]^[10]^[11]

Modern legacy

Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore in the more than four hundred years since her birth, representing different things to different people. A 2000 article in the Piedmont (North Carolina) Triad News and Record noted that she symbolizes innocence and purity for many Americans (particularly Southerners), "new beginnings, promise, and hope" as well as "adventure and bravery" in a new land. She also symbolizes mystery because of her mysterious fate.^[12]

Virginia Dare has been adopted as an icon by white supremacists since at least the 19th century.^[13] For some white residents of North Carolina, she has been a symbol of the state itself, and symbolizes a desire to keep it predominantly of European descent. In the 1920s, a group in Raleigh that opposed suffrage for women feared that black women would get the vote, urging "that North Carolina remain white ... in the name of Virginia Dare".^[12] Today, Virginia Dare's name serves as the inspiration for the VDARE website which is associated with white supremacy,^[14]^[15] white nationalism,^[16]^[17]^[18] and the alt-right.^[19]^[20]^[21]

Some see Dare as a symbol of women's rights. In the 1980s, feminists in North Carolina called for state residents to approve the Equal Rights Amendment and "Honor Virginia Dare."^[12]

There is a memorial to Virginia Dare in St Bride's Church, Fleet Street in the City of London, where her parents were married prior to their journey to Roanoke.^[4] The bronze sculpture was created by Clare Waterhouse in 1999.^[22] It replaced a marble sculpture of Dare carved by Marjorie Meggit in 1957, which was stolen in 1999 and never recovered.^{[citation needed]}

Eleanor Dare stones

Virginia's death and the fate of the other colonists were purportedly described in a series of inscribed stones written by Eleanor Dare and others. Most of these were later revealed to be forgeries, with the authenticity of one remaining in dispute.^[23]

1937 Roanoke commemorative coin

In 1937, the United States Mint issued a half-dollar commemorative coin that depicted Virginia Dare as the first English child born in the New World. This was also the first time that a child was depicted on United States currency.^[24]^[25]

Literary and cultural references

Virginia Dare quickly entered into folklore as the first white child born in British America. The fate of Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony has been the subject of many literary, film, and television adaptations, all of which have added to her myth:

One of the first was Cornelia Tuthill's 1840 novel Virginia Dare, or the Colony of Roanoke, in which Virginia marries a Jamestown settler. Virginia Dare met the Indian princess Pocahontas in E.A.B. Shackleford's 1892 novel Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century. Virginia Dare was the main character in Sallie Southall Cotten's 1901 book in verse The White Doe: The Fate of Virginia Dare. In the book, she is turned into a white doe by an Indian witch doctor after she rejects his advances. When her true love, an Indian warrior, shoots her with a silver arrow, she turns back into a woman just before she dies in his arms. Cotten has asserted, however, that the tale of Dare as the White Doe had survived for some three centuries as part of colonial folklore.^[26] In the 1908 novel The Daughter of Virginia Dare, author Mary Virginia Wall made Pocahontas the daughter of Virginia Dare. In Herbert Bouldin Hawes' 1930 novel The Daughter of the Blood, Virginia Dare is involved in a romantic triangle with John Smith and Pocahontas.
Neil Gaiman has extended this story in his comic book series 1602, where a Native American named Rojhaz meets Virginia Dare when she is about twelve, and an artifact of his travels causes her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger. The storyline ends when Peter Parquagh and Virginia Dare head home to her father to plot the rescue of those left in England. In later stories in the 1602 universe (much like the figure of legend), when attempting to flee in the form of a white doe, she is shot by Master Norman Osborne and reverts to human form in front of Peter before dying.
In Margaret Peterson Haddix's novel "Sabotaged", a girl finds out that she herself is actually Virginia Dare. In Philip José Farmer's 1965 novel Dare, Virginia and the other Lost Colonists are abducted by aliens and settled on a planet called Dare.
In 1969, Steve Cannon wrote Groove, Bang and Jive Around, in which Virginia Dare is one of two stewardesses aboard the Statecraft One who engages in a wild orgy with Annette, the foxy adolescent girl from New Orleans, and Estavanico, "Little Stevie" to some, the flight engineer. Near the end, in the land of Oobladee, she is eventually magically transformed into a frail, old woman with a cane, who explains the reasons for which she was left to explore much darker horizons, sexually. Ultimately, she falls to the floor as a pile of ashes.
Virginia Dare appears in Mark Chadbourn's fantasy trilogy Kingdom of the Serpent, encompassing the novels Jack of Ravens, The Burning Man, and Destroyer of Worlds. She is kidnapped along with the other Roanoke colonists and taken to the Celtic Otherworld, the home of all myth and legend. She plays a key role in the final volume of the trilogy.
A woman named Virginia Dare appears in Gregory Keyes' fantasy novel The Briar King. Keyes uses several hints and word clues to indicate this character is meant to be the historical figure.
In Volume I of Tales of the Slayer, a horror story collection set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, Virginia Dare appears as the vampire slayer "White Doe", an English girl adopted by the Croatoan Indians. She is turned into a white doe by a wizard of the tribe when she rejects his advances. Her true love, Seal of the Ocean, finds her but later kills her because he does not recognize her as a deer.
Dare is the main villain in the short-lived television show FreakyLinks. Inspired by The X-Files and The Blair Witch Project, it follows a young man who takes over his twin brother's paranormal website, Freakylinks, after his death. It is later found that his brother's death was related to his investigations into the lost colony of Roanoke. It is implied that Virginia Dare was a demon who destroyed the colonists, either directly or indirectly. However, the show was canceled before the end of the first season, and the mystery was never resolved.
In the 2007 made-for-TV movie on the SciFi Channel, Wraiths of Roanoke, Virginia Dare is the sole survivor after the colony is wiped out by Old Norse ghosts, or wraiths, who had died on the island centuries earlier but failed to achieve transit to Valhalla. In the movie the infant Virginia, whose innocence is needed by the wraiths, is used by her father to lure the wraiths onto a flaming raft set adrift for a Viking funeral. The last act of Ananias is to cast Virginia away from the raft in a wicker basket. She is found and adopted by the mainland Indians the next day.
In The Necromancer, the fourth book in Michael Scott's "Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" series, Virginia Dare was introduced as an immortal who disables her enemies with charms from a magic flute. It is later revealed in the story that her father is the one who carved the word "Croatoan" onto the fence post and part of the tree.
In Sabotaged, the third book of the "Missing Series" by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Virginia Dare is a missing child from history who had been kidnapped by one of the evil villains when she was a child, but then accidentally landed in the twenty-first century. The main characters, Jonah and Katherine, are sent back into time, again, to return her to the colony. However, Andrea (also called Virginia) is tricked by a mysterious character named Second to sabotage the mission. The book takes place in Roanoke Island and they eventually travel to Croatoan Island.
In the 2011 faux-Southern Gothic show The Heart, She Holler the town matriarch, commonly referred to as "Meemaw", is named Virginia Dare. In Season 3 it is confirmed that she is the actual Virginia Dare, "the first white person born on this continent". Her birth so offended the gods of the indigenous peoples that she was "cursed" with immortality and various psychic powers including but not limited to telekinesis, extrasensory perception, and unexplained reality bending powers.
She is a character in the novel The Last American Vampire written by Seth Grahame-Smith.
She is mentioned in the Sleepy Hollow season 1 episode John Doe, which features the lost Roanoke colony.

Tourism and advertising

Virginia Dare's name has become a tourist attraction for North Carolina. Many locations are named after her, including Dare County, North Carolina; the Virginia Dare Trail, a section of NC 12; Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge, the second, newest, and widest bridge spanning the Croatan Sound connecting Roanoke Island to Manns Harbor, carrying US 64. Residents of Roanoke Island celebrate Virginia Dare's birthday each year with an Elizabethan Renaissance fair. A statue of Virginia as a grown woman, nude and wrapped in a fishnet,^[27]^[28] is on display in the Elizabethan Gardens on the island.^[12] At Smith Mountain Lake, a reservoir in Virginia created by damming the Roanoke River, there is an active tour boat named Virginia Dare.

Virginia Dare's name has also been used to sell a number of products. Virginia Dare was the name of the first commercial wine to sell after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.^[29] The Virginia Dare Extract Company, a maker of vanilla products, sells its products with a symbol of Virginia as a fresh-faced, blonde girl wearing a white ruffled mob cap. The company's website notes that Virginia Dare symbolizes "wholesomeness and purity".^[30] In Rancho Cucamonga, California, a now-defunct winery called Virginia Dare is on the corner of Haven Avenue and Foothill Boulevard (U.S. Route 66).

Ships named after her

SS Virginia Dare was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.
Schooner Virginia Dare, 89.41 tons, built in 1883 in Essex and owned by Pool, Gardner & Co. of Gloucester.^[31]
Steamship Virginia Dare, which was grounded on an offshore sandbar at Galveston Island during 1871 Atlantic hurricane season.

Notes

^ "Virginia Dare". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Hawks, Francis L. (1857). History of North Carolina: Embracing the period between the first voyage to the colony in 1584, to the last in 1591. E.J. Hale & Son.
^ Miller (2000), p. 27
^ ^a ^b "American Connections". St Bride's Fleet Street. Archived from the original on April 5, 2011. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
^ Morgan, p.77
^ Milton, p.265
^ "Roanoke Island". Coastalguide.com. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Stick (1983), p. 222
^ Miller (2000), p. 250
^ Miller (2000), p. 242
^ *Warner, Charles Dudley, Captain John Smith, 1881. Repr. in Captain John Smith Project Gutenberg Text, accessed April 1, 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Patterson, Donald W., "Time Hasn't Diminished the Image of Virginia Dare", News and Record (Piedmont Triad, N.C.) April 23, 2000
^ Lawler, Andrew (May 24, 2018). "How a child born more than 400 years ago became a symbol of white nationalism". Washington Post. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
^ Sam Frizell, GOP Shows White Supremacist's Tweet During Trump's Speech. Time, July 21, 2016
^ Arnold, Kathleen (2011). Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 89. ISBN 9780313375224. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
^ Holly Folk, The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), p. 64: "the white nationalist website VDARE.com."
^ Robert W. Sussman, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 299.
^ Kristine Phillips, Resort cancels 'white nationalist' organization's first-ever conference over the group's views, Washington Post (January 26, 2017).
^ Heidi Beirich; Mark Potok (Winter 2003). "'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center.
^ Stephen Piggott (December 21, 2016). "Ann Coulter Attends VDARE Christmas Party – Her Second White Nationalist Event In Three Months". Southern Poverty Law Center.
^ Hannah Gais (December 11, 2016). "Cucking and Nazi salutes: A night out with the alt-right". Washington Spectator (republished by Newsweek.
^ Evans, Tony (December 19, 2008). "Painter Tessa Bradley to shows work in Bellevue". Idaho Mountain Express. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012.
^ Sparkes, Boyden (April 26, 1941). "Writ on Rocke: Has America's First Murder Mystery Been Solved?". The Saturday Evening Post. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
^ 1937 Roanoke Half Dollar
^ "The United States Mint · About The Mint". Archived from the original on June 26, 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
^ Poole, W. Scott. Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting. Waco, Texas: Baylor, 2011), p. 35. ISBN 978-1-60258-314-6.
^ Hampton, Jeff (August 16, 2017). "Virginia Dare statue was shipwrecked, mocked and nearly lost in a fire. Now, it's revered". The Virginian Pilot. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
^ rel="nofollow" Photograph of the statue at NCpedia.
^ Boyd, Gerald D. (October 11, 2005). "Wine Lore". Wine Review Online. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
^ "Virginia Dare Extract Company". Virginiadare.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
^ The Virginia Dare Out of Gloucester

References

Gabriel-Powell, Andy, Richard Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke (2016), McFarland & Company, ISBN 1-47666-571-0
Miller, Lee, Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony (2000), Penguin Books, ISBN 0-1420-0228-3
Milton, Giles, Big Chief Elizabeth – How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World (2000), Hodder & Stoughton, London ^{[ISBN missing]}
Morgan, Dewi, Phoenix of Fleet St – 2,000 years of St Bride's, Charles Knight & Co., London (1973), ISBN 0-85314-196-7
Scott, Michael. The Necromancer. New York: Delacorte, 2010^{[ISBN missing]}
Stick, David, Roanoake Island: The Beginnings of English America (1983), University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-4110-2
Tucker, Abigail, "Sketching the Earliest Views of the New World" Archived July 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Smithsonian magazine, December 2008
White, Robert W., A Witness For Eleanor Dare (1992), Lexikos, ISBN 0-938530-51-8

External links

[Encyclopædia_Britannica-1] "Virginia Dare". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 22, 2014.

[historync-2] Hawks, Francis L. (1857). History of North Carolina: Embracing the period between the first voyage to the colony in 1584, to the last in 1591. E.J. Hale & Son.

[3] Miller (2000), p. 27

[stbrides-4] "American Connections". St Bride's Fleet Street. Archived from the original on April 5, 2011. Retrieved March 1, 2011.

[5] Morgan, p.77

[6] Milton, p.265

[7] "Roanoke Island". Coastalguide.com. Retrieved February 6, 2015.

[Stick222-8] Stick (1983), p. 222

[9] Miller (2000), p. 250

[10] Miller (2000), p. 242

[11] *Warner, Charles Dudley, Captain John Smith, 1881. Repr. in Captain John Smith Project Gutenberg Text, accessed April 1, 2008.

[Patterson-12] Patterson, Donald W., "Time Hasn't Diminished the Image of Virginia Dare", News and Record (Piedmont Triad, N.C.) April 23, 2000

[13] Lawler, Andrew (May 24, 2018). "How a child born more than 400 years ago became a symbol of white nationalism". Washington Post. Retrieved November 4, 2024.

[Time-14] Sam Frizell, GOP Shows White Supremacist's Tweet During Trump's Speech. Time, July 21, 2016

[15] Arnold, Kathleen (2011). Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 89. ISBN 9780313375224. Retrieved August 30, 2017.

[Folk-16] Holly Folk, The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), p. 64: "the white nationalist website VDARE.com."

[Sussman-17] Robert W. Sussman, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 299.

[Phillips-18] Kristine Phillips, Resort cancels 'white nationalist' organization's first-ever conference over the group's views, Washington Post (January 26, 2017).

[splc-19] Heidi Beirich; Mark Potok (Winter 2003). "'Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center.

[Piggott-20] Stephen Piggott (December 21, 2016). "Ann Coulter Attends VDARE Christmas Party – Her Second White Nationalist Event In Three Months". Southern Poverty Law Center.

[21] Hannah Gais (December 11, 2016). "Cucking and Nazi salutes: A night out with the alt-right". Washington Spectator (republished by Newsweek.

[22] Evans, Tony (December 19, 2008). "Painter Tessa Bradley to shows work in Bellevue". Idaho Mountain Express. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012.

[Saturday_Evening_Post-23] Sparkes, Boyden (April 26, 1941). "Writ on Rocke: Has America's First Murder Mystery Been Solved?". The Saturday Evening Post. Retrieved February 4, 2017.

[24] 1937 Roanoke Half Dollar

[25] "The United States Mint · About The Mint". Archived from the original on June 26, 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2013.

[Poole-26] Poole, W. Scott. Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting. Waco, Texas: Baylor, 2011), p. 35. ISBN 978-1-60258-314-6.

[27] Hampton, Jeff (August 16, 2017). "Virginia Dare statue was shipwrecked, mocked and nearly lost in a fire. Now, it's revered". The Virginian Pilot. Retrieved August 5, 2018.

[28] rel="nofollow" Photograph of the statue at NCpedia.

[29] Boyd, Gerald D. (October 11, 2005). "Wine Lore". Wine Review Online. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2012.

[30] "Virginia Dare Extract Company". Virginiadare.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.

[31] The Virginia Dare Out of Gloucester

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+{{short description|First child born in the Americas to English parents}}
-'''Virginia Dare''' ([[18 August]] [[1587]] &ndash; unknown'') was the first child to be born in America of English parents on [[Roanoke Island]] in the [[Colony of Roanoke]], now in [[North Carolina]]. This is contrary to popular belief, which says that Virginia Dare was in fact the first child born of European descent in the Americas. The first child born of European descent in the Americas was actually [[Snorri Thorfinnson]]. [[Image:Virginia_dare_stamp.JPG|framed|right|US postage stamp issued in 1937, the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth]]
+{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}}
+{{Infobox person
+| name               = Virginia Dare
+| image              = Virginia Dare 5c 1937 issue.JPG
+| caption            = US postage stamp issued in 1937, the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth
+| birth_name         = Virginia Dare
+| birth_date         = August 18, 1587
+| birth_place        = [[Roanoke Colony]] (present-day [[North Carolina]])<ref name="Encyclopædia Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/151518/Virginia-Dare |title=Virginia Dare |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=November 22, 2014}}</ref>
+| disappeared_date   = before August 18, 1590
+| father             = [[Ananias Dare]]
+| mother             = [[Eleanor Dare|Eleanor White]]
+| known              = first [[English Americans|English]] child born in the [[New World]]
+}}
+'''Virginia Dare''' (born August 18, 1587; date of death unknown) was the first [[English people|English child]] born in an [[Americas|American]] [[English overseas possessions|English colony]].<ref name="historync">{{cite book|title=History of North Carolina: Embracing the period between the first voyage to the colony in 1584, to the last in 1591|first=Francis L.|last=Hawks|url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Kzo_AAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-Kzo_AAAAYAAJ&rdot=1|year=1857|publisher=E.J. Hale & Son}}</ref>
+What became of Virginia and the other colonists remains a mystery. The fact of her birth is known because [[John White (colonist and artist)|John White]], Virginia's grandfather and the governor of the colony, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies. When White eventually returned three years later, the colonists were gone.
-Her parents, Eleanor (Ellinor, Elyonor) and [[Ananias Dare]], had been among the approximately 120 settlers who left [[England]] on [[8 May]], [[1587]], on an expedition sponsored by Sir [[Walter Raleigh]]. Raleigh had intended that the settlement should be established in the [[Chesapeake Bay]] area, but the captain of their ship, the ''Lion'', had his passengers land instead on [[Roanoke Island]], the site of an unsuccessful earlier colonization venture.
+During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people. She has been featured as a main character in books, poems, songs, comic books, television programs, and films. Her name has been used to sell different types of goods, from [[vanilla]] products to soft drinks, as well as wine and spirits. Many places in [[North Carolina]] and elsewhere in the [[Southern United States]] have been named in her honor.
-Aside from the circumstances of her birth, Virginia Dare's life remains a mystery. Nine days after her birth, on [[27 August]], [[1587]], her grandfather, Governor [[John White (surveyor) | John White]], left the colony for England, acting as Roanoke's agent in obtaining further aid and assistance for the colony. He arrived in England that November as the nation was about to go to war with [[Spain]]. It was not until August [[1590]] that White reached Roanoke with a relief expedition. It found no trace of the settlers&mdash;only the word "croatoan" carved on a post. The infant Virginia Dare had vanished along with all other Roanoke colonists. Some believe that the survivors of the "Lost Colony" were absorbed into the [[Croatan]] tribe. Others believe that the colonists moved to another nearby island, although no trace was found.
+==Biography==
-[[Dare County, North Carolina]] and the immigration reform [[VDARE]] Project of the [[Center for American Unity]] are named after Virginia Dare.
+[[File:Copperplate map St Brides.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[St Bride's Church]], [[Fleet Street]], where Virginia Dare's parents were wed]]
+[[File:Baptism of Virginia Dare.jpeg|thumb|left|275px|''Baptism of Virginia Dare'', [[wood-engraving]], 1880]]
+Virginia Dare was born in the [[Roanoke Colony]] in what is now North Carolina in August 1587, the first child born in the New World to English parents. "Elenora, daughter to the governor of the city and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoke".<ref name="historync"/>
+Little is known of the lives of either of her parents. Her mother [[Eleanor Dare|Eleanor]] was born in London around 1563 and was the daughter of [[John White (colonist and artist)|John White]], the governor of the ill-fated Roanoke Colony. Eleanor married [[Ananias Dare]] (born c. 1560), a London [[tile]]r and [[bricklayer]],<ref>Miller (2000), p. 27</ref> at [[St Bride's Church]]<ref name=stbrides>{{cite web |url=http://www.stbrides.com/history/america/index.htm |title=American Connections |publisher=St Bride's Fleet Street |access-date=March 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405215920/http://www.stbrides.com/history/america/index.htm |archive-date=April 5, 2011 }}</ref> on [[Fleet Street]] in the [[City of London]].<ref>Morgan, p.77</ref> He, too, was part of the Roanoke expedition. Virginia Dare was one of two infants born to the colonists in 1587 and the only female child known to have been born to the settlers.
-A woman named Virginia Dare appears in [[Gregory Keyes]]' fantasy novel <i>The Briar King</i>.  Keyes uses several hints and word clues to indicate this character is meant to be the historical figure. Another fictionalized version of Virginia appears in the [[Neil Gaiman]] [[Marvel comics|Marvel]] comic ''[[1602 (comic)|1602]]''.
+Nothing else is known of Virginia Dare's life, as the Roanoke Colony did not endure. Virginia's grandfather John White sailed for England for fresh supplies at the end of 1587, having established his colony. Because England's war with Spain brought about a pressing need for ships to defend against the [[Spanish Armada]], he was unable to return to Roanoke until August 18, 1590, by which time he found that the settlement had been long deserted. The buildings had collapsed and "the houses [were] taken down". Worse, White was unable to find any trace of his daughter or granddaughter, or indeed any of the 80 men, 17 women, and 11 children who made up the "Lost Colony".<ref>Milton, p.265</ref>
-From 1937 until 1941, the so-called "Dare Stones" were in the news. The carved stones were allegedly found in North Georgia and the Carolinas. The first bore an announcement of Virginia Dare's death. Later ones, brought in by various people, told a complicated tale of the fate of the Lost Colony.
+==Mystery of the "Lost Colony" (Roanoke)==
-Professor Haywood Pearce Jr. of Brenau College (now Brenau University) in Gainesville, Ga., believed in the stones, and his views won over some well-known historians, according to contemporary press accounts. But a 1941 article in The Saturday Evening Post discredited the whole business, exposing absurdities in the stones' account and producing evidence that the "discoverers" were hoaxers. Pearce and the other scholars were not implicated in fraud.
+{{Main|Roanoke Colony}}
+[[File:Croatoan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The return of [[John White (colonist and artist)|Governor White]] to the "Lost Colony"]]
+Nothing is known for certain of the fate of Virginia Dare or her fellow colonists. Governor White found no sign of a struggle or battle. The only clue to the colonists' fate was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post of the fort, and the letters "Cro" carved into a nearby tree. All the houses and fortifications had been dismantled, suggesting that their departure had not been hurried. Before he had left the colony, White had instructed them that, if anything happened to them, they should carve a [[Maltese cross]] on a tree nearby, indicating that their disappearance had been forced. There was no cross, and White took this to mean that they had moved to Croatoan Island (now known as [[Hatteras Island]]), but he was unable to conduct a search.
+There are a number of theories regarding the fate of the colonists, the most widely accepted one being that they sought shelter with local Indian tribes, and either intermarried with the natives or were killed. In 1607, [[John Smith of Jamestown|John Smith]] and other members of the successful [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown Colony]] sought information about the fate of the Roanoke colonists. One report indicated that the survivors had taken refuge with friendly [[Chesapeake (tribe)|Chesapeake]] [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indians]], but [[Chief Powhatan]] claimed that his tribe had attacked the group and killed most of the colonists. Powhatan showed Smith certain artifacts that he said had belonged to the colonists, including a [[musket]] barrel and a brass [[mortar and pestle]]. However, no archaeological evidence exists to support this claim. The Jamestown Colony received reports of some survivors of the Lost Colony and sent out search parties, but none were successful. Eventually they determined that all survivors had died.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coastalguide.com/roanoke-island.html |title=Roanoke Island |publisher=Coastalguide.com |access-date=February 6, 2015}}</ref>
-Today, Brenau keeps the stones as a sort of 20th-century media curiosity, but generally does not display them or publicize their existence. Except for a few die-hard believers in "alternative history," they are mostly forgotten.
+[[William Strachey]], a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in ''[[The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia]]'' in 1612 that there were reportedly two-story houses with stone walls at the Indian settlements of Peccarecanick and Ochanahoen. The Indians supposedly learned how to build them from the Roanoke settlers.<ref name=Stick222>Stick (1983), p. 222</ref> There were also reported sightings of European captives at various Indian settlements during the same time period.<ref>Miller (2000), p. 250</ref> Strachey also wrote that four English men, two boys, and one maid had been sighted at the Eno settlement of Ritanoc, under the protection of a chief called Eyanoco. The captives were forced to beat copper. The captives, he reported, had escaped the attack on the other colonists and fled up the Chaonoke river, the present-day [[Chowan River]] in [[Bertie County, North Carolina]].<ref name=Stick222/><ref>Miller (2000), p. 242</ref><ref>*[[Charles Dudley Warner|Warner, Charles Dudley]], ''Captain John Smith'', 1881. Repr. in [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3130 Captain John Smith] [[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Text]], accessed April 1, 2008.</ref>
-[[Category:1587 births|Dare, Virginia]]
-[[Category:American children|Dare, Virginia]]
+==Modern legacy==
-[[Category:American colonial people|Dare, Virginia]]
+[[File:Monument to Virginia Dare, Manteo, Roanoke Island, North Carolina (14460526565).jpg|thumb|left|Monument to Virginia Dare, Manteo, Roanoke Island, North Carolina]]
-[[Category:Disappeared people|Dare, Virginia]]
+[[File:Virg Dare.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial to Virginia Dare at St Bride's Church, Fleet St, London]]
-[[Category:People from North Carolina|Dare, Virginia]]
+[[File:Virginia dare statue by Maria Louisa Lander.jpg|thumb|left|Virginia Dare by [[Louisa Lander|Maria Louisa Lander]], 1859 in the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, NC. Imaginatively portrayed as an adult Indian princess.]]
-[[Category:Year of death missing|Dare, Virginia]]
+Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American [[myth]] and [[folklore]] in the more than four hundred years since her birth, representing different things to different people. A 2000 article in the Piedmont (North Carolina) Triad ''News and Record'' noted that she symbolizes [[innocence]] and [[virtue|purity]] for many Americans (particularly Southerners), "new beginnings, promise, and [[hope]]" as well as "adventure and [[bravery]]" in a new land. She also symbolizes mystery because of her mysterious fate.<ref name="Patterson">Patterson, Donald W., "Time Hasn't Diminished the Image of Virginia Dare", ''News and Record (Piedmont Triad, N.C.)'' April 23, 2000</ref>
+Virginia Dare has been adopted as an icon by [[white supremacy|white supremacists]] since at least the 19th century.<ref>{{cite news
+ | last =Lawler
+ | first =Andrew
+ | author-link=Andrew Lawler
+ | title =How a child born more than 400 years ago became a symbol of white nationalism
+ | newspaper =[[Washington Post]]
+ | location =
+ | pages =
+ | language =English
+ | publisher =
+ | date =2018-05-24
+ | url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/05/24/how-a-child-born-more-than-400-years-ago-became-a-symbol-of-white-nationalism/
+ | accessdate = 2024-11-04}}</ref> For some white residents of North Carolina, she has been a symbol of the state itself, and symbolizes a desire to keep it predominantly of European descent. In the 1920s, a group in [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] that opposed [[suffrage]] for women feared that [[African American|black]] women would get the vote, urging "that North Carolina remain [[White people|white]] ... in the name of Virginia Dare".<ref name="Patterson"/> Today, Virginia Dare's name serves as the inspiration for the [[VDARE]] website which is associated with [[white supremacy]],<ref name=Time>Sam Frizell, [https://time.com/4418591/republican-convention-white-supremacist-tweet/ GOP Shows White Supremacist's Tweet During Trump's Speech]. [[Time (magazine)|Time]], July 21, 2016</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Arnold|first=Kathleen|year=2011|title=Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nS12bSVKgmoC&pg=PA89|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=89|isbn=9780313375224|access-date = August 30, 2017}}</ref> [[white nationalism]],<ref name="Folk">Holly Folk, ''The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), p. 64: "the white nationalist website VDARE.<nowiki/>com."</ref><ref name="Sussman">Robert W. Sussman, ''The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea'' (Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 299.</ref><ref name="Phillips">Kristine Phillips, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/26/a-resort-canceled-a-white-nationalist-groups-first-ever-conference-because-of-its-views/ Resort cancels 'white nationalist' organization's first-ever conference over the group's views], ''Washington Post'' (January 26, 2017).</ref> and the [[alt-right]].<ref name=splc>{{cite web|author1=Heidi Beirich|author2=Mark Potok|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/paleoconservatives-decry-immigration|title='Paleoconservatives' Decry Immigration|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|work=[[Intelligence Report]]|date=Winter 2003}}</ref><ref name="Piggott">{{Cite news|author=Stephen Piggott|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/12/21/ann-coulter-attends-vdare-christmas-party-%E2%80%93-her-second-white-nationalist-event-three-months|title=Ann Coulter Attends VDARE Christmas Party – Her Second White Nationalist Event In Three Months|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=December 21, 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Hannah Gais|url=http://www.newsweek.com/cucking-nazi-salutes-night-out-alt-right-529688|title=Cucking and Nazi salutes: A night out with the alt-right|date=December 11, 2016|publisher=Washington Spectator (republished by Newsweek}}</ref>
+Some see Dare as a symbol of women's rights. In the 1980s, [[feminist]]s in North Carolina called for state residents to approve the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] and "Honor Virginia Dare."<ref name="Patterson"/>
+There is a memorial to Virginia Dare in [[St Bride's Church]], [[Fleet Street]] in the [[City of London]], where her parents were married prior to their journey to Roanoke.<ref name=stbrides/> The bronze sculpture was created by Clare Waterhouse in 1999.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005124091&var_Year=2008&var_Month=12&var_Day=19 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120910211420/http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005124091&var_Year=2008&var_Month=12&var_Day=19 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 10, 2012 |title=Painter Tessa Bradley to shows work in Bellevue |first=Tony |last=Evans |publisher=Idaho Mountain Express |date=December 19, 2008 }}</ref> It replaced a marble sculpture of Dare carved by Marjorie Meggit in 1957, which was stolen in 1999 and never recovered.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}
+===Eleanor Dare stones===
+{{Main|Dare Stones}}
+Virginia's death and the fate of the other colonists were purportedly described in a series of inscribed stones written by Eleanor Dare and others. Most of these were later revealed to be forgeries, with the authenticity of one remaining in dispute.<ref name="Saturday Evening Post">{{cite journal|last1=Sparkes|first1=Boyden|title=Writ on Rocke: Has America's First Murder Mystery Been Solved?|journal=The Saturday Evening Post|date=April 26, 1941|url=https://www.angelfire.com/ego/iammagi/dare_writ_on_rocke.htm|access-date=February 4, 2017|ref=Saturday Evening Post}}</ref>
+===1937 Roanoke commemorative coin===
+{{main|Roanoke Island, North Carolina, half dollar}}
+[[File:Roanoke colony half dollar commemorative reverse.jpg|thumb|Reverse of a [[Roanoke Island, North Carolina half dollar|commemorative 1937 US half-dollar coin]], depicting Eleanor and Virginia Dare]]
+In 1937, the United States Mint issued a half-dollar commemorative coin that depicted Virginia Dare as the first English child born in the New World. This was also the first time that a child was depicted on United States currency.<ref>[http://earlycommemorativecoins.com/1937-roanoke-half-dollar/ 1937 Roanoke Half Dollar<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/?action=fun_facts8 |title=The United States Mint · About The Mint<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=August 18, 2013 |archive-date=June 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626173518/http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/?action=fun_facts8 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
+===Literary and cultural references===
+[[File:Virginia Dare A Romance of the Sixteenth Century.jpeg|thumb|right|upright|Illustration from ''Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century'', 19th century novel by Mrs. E.A.B. Shackelford loosely based on the life of Virginia Dare]]
+Virginia Dare quickly entered into folklore as the [[first white child]] born in British America. The fate of Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony has been the subject of many literary, film, and television adaptations, all of which have added to her [[myth]]:
+* One of the first was Cornelia Tuthill's 1840 novel ''Virginia Dare, or the Colony of Roanoke'', in which Virginia marries a Jamestown settler. Virginia Dare met the Indian princess [[Pocahontas]] in E.A.B. Shackleford's 1892 novel ''Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century''. Virginia Dare was the main character in [[Sallie Southall Cotten]]'s 1901 book in verse ''The White Doe: The Fate of Virginia Dare''. In the book, she is turned into a white [[deer|doe]] by an Indian [[shamanism|witch doctor]] after she rejects his advances. When her true love, an Indian [[warrior]], shoots her with a silver [[arrow]], she turns back into a woman just before she dies in his arms. Cotten has asserted, however, that the tale of Dare as the White Doe had survived for some three centuries as part of colonial folklore.<ref name="Poole">Poole, W. Scott. ''Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting''. Waco, Texas: Baylor, 2011), p. 35. {{ISBN|978-1-60258-314-6}}.</ref> In the 1908 novel ''The Daughter of Virginia Dare'', author Mary Virginia Wall made [[Pocahontas]] the daughter of Virginia Dare. In Herbert Bouldin Hawes' 1930 novel ''The Daughter of the Blood'', Virginia Dare is involved in a romantic triangle with John Smith and Pocahontas.
+* Neil Gaiman has extended this story in his comic book series ''[[Marvel 1602|1602]]'', where a Native American named [[Captain America|Rojhaz]] meets Virginia Dare when she is about twelve, and an artifact of his travels causes her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger. The storyline ends when [[Spider-Man|Peter Parquagh]] and Virginia Dare head home to her father to plot the rescue of those left in England. In later stories in the ''1602'' universe (much like the figure of legend), when attempting to flee in the form of a white doe, she is shot by [[Green Goblin|Master Norman Osborne]] and reverts to human form in front of Peter before dying.
+* In Margaret Peterson Haddix's novel "Sabotaged", a girl finds out that she herself is actually Virginia Dare. In [[Philip José Farmer]]'s 1965 novel ''Dare'', Virginia and the other Lost Colonists are abducted by [[Extraterrestrial life|aliens]] and settled on a planet called Dare.
+* In 1969, [[Steve Cannon (poet)|Steve Cannon]] wrote ''Groove, Bang and Jive Around'', in which Virginia Dare is one of two stewardesses aboard the Statecraft One who engages in a wild orgy with Annette, the foxy adolescent girl from [[New Orleans]], and Estavanico, "Little Stevie" to some, the [[flight engineer]]. Near the end, in the land of Oobladee, she is eventually magically transformed into a frail, old woman with a cane, who explains the reasons for which she was left to explore much darker horizons, sexually. Ultimately, she falls to the floor as a pile of ashes.
+* Virginia Dare appears in [[Mark Chadbourn]]'s fantasy trilogy [[Kingdom of the Serpent]], encompassing the novels ''Jack of Ravens'', ''The Burning Man'', and ''Destroyer of Worlds''. She is kidnapped along with the other Roanoke colonists and taken to the [[Celtic mythology|Celtic]] [[Other world|Otherworld]], the home of all myth and legend. She plays a key role in the final volume of the trilogy.
+* A woman named Virginia Dare appears in [[Gregory Keyes]]' fantasy novel ''The Briar King''. Keyes uses several hints and word clues to indicate this character is meant to be the historical figure.
+* In Volume I of ''[[Tales of the Slayer]]'', a horror story collection set in the [[Buffyverse|''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'']] universe, Virginia Dare appears as the vampire slayer "White Doe", an English girl adopted by the [[Croatan|Croatoan]] Indians. She is turned into a white doe by a [[Wizard (fantasy)|wizard]] of the tribe when she rejects his advances. Her true love, Seal of the Ocean, finds her but later kills her because he does not recognize her as a deer.
+* Dare is the main villain in the short-lived television show ''[[FreakyLinks]]''. Inspired by ''[[The X-Files]]'' and ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'', it follows a young man who takes over his twin brother's paranormal website, ''Freakylinks'', after his death. It is later found that his brother's death was related to his investigations into the lost colony of Roanoke. It is implied that Virginia Dare was a demon who destroyed the colonists, either directly or indirectly. However, the show was canceled before the end of the first season, and the mystery was never resolved.
+* In the 2007 made-for-TV movie on the [[Syfy|SciFi Channel]], ''Wraiths of Roanoke'', Virginia Dare is the sole survivor after the colony is wiped out by Old Norse ghosts, or wraiths, who had died on the island centuries earlier but failed to achieve transit to Valhalla. In the movie the infant Virginia, whose innocence is needed by the wraiths, is used by her father to lure the wraiths onto a flaming raft set adrift for a Viking funeral. The last act of Ananias is to cast Virginia away from the raft in a wicker basket. She is found and adopted by the mainland Indians the next day.
+* In ''[[The Necromancer: The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel|The Necromancer]]'', the fourth book in [[Michael Scott (Irish author)|Michael Scott's]] "[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel|Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]" series, Virginia Dare was introduced as an immortal who disables her enemies with charms from a magic flute. It is later revealed in the story that her father is the one who carved the word "Croatoan" onto the fence post and part of the tree.
+* In ''[[Sabotaged (novel)|Sabotaged]]'', the third book of the "Missing Series" by [[Margaret Peterson Haddix]], Virginia Dare is a missing child from history who had been kidnapped by one of the evil villains when she was a child, but then accidentally landed in the twenty-first century. The main characters, Jonah and Katherine, are sent back into time, again, to return her to the colony. However, Andrea (also called Virginia) is tricked by a mysterious character named Second to sabotage the mission. The book takes place in [[Roanoke Island]] and they eventually travel to [[Croatoan Island]].
+* In the 2011 faux-[[Southern Gothic]] show ''[[The Heart, She Holler]]'' the town matriarch, commonly referred to as "Meemaw", is named Virginia Dare. In Season 3 it is confirmed that she is the actual Virginia Dare, "the first white person born on this continent". Her birth so offended the gods of the indigenous peoples that she was "cursed" with immortality and various psychic powers including but not limited to [[telekinesis]], [[extrasensory perception]], and unexplained reality bending powers.
+* She is a character in the novel ''[[The Last American Vampire]]'' written by [[Seth Grahame-Smith]].
+* She is mentioned in the ''[[Sleepy Hollow (TV series)|Sleepy Hollow]] [[Sleepy Hollow (season 1)|season 1]]'' episode John Doe, which features the lost Roanoke colony.
+===Tourism and advertising===
+[[File:Virginia Dare Tobacco c.1871.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Virginia Dare Tobacco, label, circa 1871]]
+[[File:Virginia Dare Flavoring Extracts label.jpeg|thumb|left|180px|Virginia Dare Flavoring Extracts]]
+Virginia Dare's name has become a [[tourist attraction]] for North Carolina. Many locations are named after her, including [[Dare County, North Carolina|Dare County]], North Carolina; the Virginia Dare Trail, a section of [[North Carolina Highway 12|NC 12]]; [[Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge]], the second, newest, and widest bridge spanning the [[Croatan Sound]] connecting [[Roanoke Island]] to [[Manns Harbor, North Carolina|Manns Harbor]], carrying [[U.S. Route 64|US 64]]. Residents of [[Roanoke Island]] celebrate Virginia Dare's birthday each year with an [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] [[Renaissance fair]]. A statue of Virginia as a grown woman, nude and wrapped in a fishnet,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hampton |first1=Jeff |title=Virginia Dare statue was shipwrecked, mocked and nearly lost in a fire. Now, it's revered |url=https://pilotonline.com/news/local/history/article_e05529e6-2c3b-5556-9383-22711632b108.html |access-date=August 5, 2018 |publisher=The Virginian Pilot |date=August 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>[https://www.ncpedia.org/media/virginia-dare-statue rel="nofollow" Photograph of the statue at NCpedia.]</ref> is on display in the Elizabethan Gardens on the island.<ref name="Patterson"/> At [[Smith Mountain Lake]], a reservoir in Virginia created by damming the [[Roanoke River]], there is an active [[Boat tour|tour boat]] named Virginia Dare.
+Virginia Dare's name has also been used to sell a number of products. Virginia Dare was the name of the first commercial wine to sell after the repeal of [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] in 1933.<ref>{{cite web |last=Boyd |first=Gerald D. |url=http://www.winereviewonline.com/wine_lore.cfm |title=Wine Lore |publisher=Wine Review Online |date=October 11, 2005 |access-date=March 22, 2012 |archive-date=March 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318104842/http://www.winereviewonline.com/wine_lore.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Virginia Dare Extract Company, a maker of vanilla products, sells its products with a symbol of Virginia as a fresh-faced, blonde girl wearing a white ruffled [[mob cap]]. The company's website notes that Virginia Dare symbolizes "wholesomeness and purity".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginiadare.com |title=Virginia Dare Extract Company |publisher=Virginiadare.com |access-date=March 22, 2012}}</ref> In [[Rancho Cucamonga, California|Rancho Cucamonga]], California, a now-defunct winery called Virginia Dare is on the corner of Haven Avenue and Foothill Boulevard ([[U.S. Route 66]]).
+== Ships named after her ==
+*[[SS Virginia Dare|SS ''Virginia Dare'']] was a [[Liberty ship]] built in the United States during [[World War II]].
+*[[Schooner]] ''Virginia Dare'', 89.41 tons, built in 1883 in [[Essex]] and owned by ''Pool, Gardner & Co.'' of [[Gloucester]].<ref>[https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/virginiad.htm The Virginia Dare] ''Out of Gloucester''</ref>
+*[[Steamship]] ''Virginia Dare'', which was grounded on an offshore sandbar at [[Galveston Island]] during [[1871 Atlantic hurricane season]].
+==See also==
+* [[First white child]]
+* [[List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910|List of people who disappeared]]
+* [[Martín de Argüelles]], first white child born in modern U.S. (born 1566 in St. Augustine, Florida)
+* [[Snorri Thorfinnsson]], said to have been born between 1005 and 1013 in [[Vinland]]
+* [[Peregrine White]], first child born to the Pilgrims
+==Notes==
+{{Reflist|2}}
+==References==
+* Gabriel-Powell, Andy, ''Richard Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke'' (2016),  McFarland & Company, {{ISBN|1-47666-571-0}}
+* Miller, Lee, ''Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony'' (2000), Penguin Books, {{ISBN|0-1420-0228-3}}
+* Milton, Giles, ''Big Chief Elizabeth&nbsp;– How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World'' (2000), Hodder & Stoughton, London {{ISBN?}}
+* Morgan, Dewi, ''Phoenix of Fleet St – 2,000 years of St Bride's'', Charles Knight & Co., London (1973), {{ISBN|0-85314-196-7}}
+* Scott, Michael. The Necromancer. New York: Delacorte, 2010{{ISBN?}}
+* Stick, David, ''Roanoake Island: The Beginnings of English America'' (1983), University of North Carolina Press, {{ISBN|0-8078-4110-2}}
+* Tucker, Abigail, [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Brave-New-World.html "Sketching the Earliest Views of the New World"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703075024/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Brave-New-World.html |date=July 3, 2013 }}, [[Smithsonian (magazine)|''Smithsonian'']] magazine, December 2008
+* White, Robert W., ''A Witness For Eleanor Dare'' (1992), Lexikos, {{ISBN|0-938530-51-8}}
+==Further reading==
+* ''Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World'', Giles Milton, Sceptre, 2001, {{ISBN|0-340-74882-6}}
+* [https://archive.org/details/virginiadareroma00shac <!-- quote="virginia dare". --> Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century, Mrs. E. A. B. Shackelford, Published by Thomas Whittaker, New York, 1892]
+==External links==
+{{Commons category|Virginia Dare}}
+* [http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/roanokei_dc.html Account of the Roanoke settlements]
+* [https://www.angelfire.com/ego/iammagi/dare_writ_on_rocke.htm Article in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' discussing debunking the Dare Stones]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070807202857/http://www.lost-colony.com/ Lost Colony Center for Science and Research]
+* [http://the-lost-colony.blogspot.com Searching for the Lost Colony Blog]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110405215920/http://www.stbrides.com/history/america/index.htm St Bride's Church – Virginia Dare at St Bride's Church Official Website]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081021035947/http://www.coastalguide.com/packet/lostcolony01.htm Virginia Dare and The Lost Colony]
+* [https://www.angelfire.com/ego/iammagi/DARE_INDEX.htm Webpage discussing authenticity of the Virginia Dare Stones]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060717113854/http://nps.gov/fora/woman.htm Women in the Roanoke Colony] November 22, 2012.
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