History buff thinks he has found 1585 English fort Tract predates Lost Colony Jerry Allegood, Staff Writer MANTEO - 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...