In 1587, one hundred seventeen men, women and children simply disappeared and became known as The Lost Colony. Significant evidence - original accounts, native alliances, oral histories, naming patterns, archeological remnants and reanalysis of early maps - suggests that they intentionally relocated inland to Beechland, a protected sassafras site about fifty miles into the mainland. Even so, without a significant on-site archeological investigation, Sir Walter Ralegh's attempt to settle Virginia remains one of the greatest mysteries of early American history.