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Ancient Town receives new Historical Marker

August 12, 2013 by Marvin Jones 2 Comments

An ancient Native American town and its people were honored Saturday with a historical marker on Saturday.  Large plaque for Dasamunkepeuc, the capital of the Roanoke Indians, was unveiled by today’s Roanoke-Hatteras Indians at their 10th annual powwow held on their ancestral land in Manteo.

Roanoke-Hatteras Indians and friends with the new North Carolina Highway Historical Marker for the town of Dasemunkepeuc. Kaeli Schurr of the Outer Banks History Center is left of the marker. Roanoke-Hatteras Indians Chief Marilyn Berry Morrison is standing, right of the marker. Dare County Commissioner Virginia Tillett is on the far right.

The first Native American town encountered by the English expeditions of 1584 and 1585, Dasemunkepeuc (DA-say-mun-ke-puc) was located on Croatan Sound on the mainland across from Roanoke Island.  After the Roanoke Indians welcomed the two expeditions, miscalculations on part of the English led to attacks on Dasemunkepeuc and other towns. Following that, the third expedition’s settlers, known as the Lost Colony, arrived among an angered and hostile population.

The marker was nominated by the Chowan Discovery Group,   Many of the Winton Triangle people share ancestry and heritage with the Roanoke-Hatteras Indians.  This the fourth marker sponsored by the Chowan Discovery Group and the second Chowan Discovery marker for a Native American town (see Choanoac).   The North Carolina Office of Archives and History (Department of Cultural Resources) approved Chowan Discovery’s nomination and provided the marker.  New CDG-nominated makers are coming for the Roanoke Island Freedmens Colony (Manteo, NC) and another ancient Algonquian town, Aquascogoc (Bel Haven, NC).

Roanoke-Hatteras Indians and Chief Marilyn Berry Morrison (left).
Left to right: Chowan Discovery Executive Director Marvin T. Jones; KaeLi Schurr of the NC Outer Banks History Center, representing the NC Department of Cultural Resources who provided the marker through its Office of Archives and History; Dare County Commissioner Virginia Tillett.

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Fort Raleigh, Lost Colony, Manteo, Roanoke Island, Roanoke-Hatteras, Wingina

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