Climb on board the Elizabeth II in Shallowbag Bay at Roanoke Island Festival Park for high adventure. 



Roanoke Island Festival: 

 Every Day is an Event 



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I J very day is an event at Roanoke 

 Island Festival Park — a 27-acre island neatly 

 packed with history, culture, art and nature 

 — just a footbridge away from the quaint 

 Manteo waterfront. 



The park's promotional brochure invites 

 visitors to "Celebrate Roanoke Island's unique 

 place in history as the site of the first English 

 settlements in the Americas." 



From 1584-1587, the island was the 



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st pping off place for Sir Walter Raleigh's New 

 World voyages for Queen Elizabeth I. 



The sea delivered the first chapter of 

 American history and figures prominently in 

 retelling the story of sacrifice, hardship and 

 discovery. 



Visitors to the Festival Park become part 

 of living history when they climb onto the 

 Elizabeth II sailing ship moored in Shallowbag 

 Bay. The square-rigger was launched in 1 984 as 



the centerpiece of America's 400th Anniversary 

 celebration. Once onboard, visitors encounter 

 16th-century sailors who tell tales of adventure 

 on the high seas and close calls with loot-seek- 

 ing pirates. 



Guests stroll into a replica of a working 

 English settlement and discover the meaning of 

 self-reliance. 



Carpenters, blacksmiths and soldiers from 

 the era greet visitors and chat about life at the 



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