Dare County, North Carolina
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Dare County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,915. Its county seat is Manteo.
Dare County Administration Building
Dare County welcome center
Virginia Dare
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Virginia Dare was the first English child to be born in an American English colony. She was born to members of the Roanoke Colony.
Dare County, North Carolina
…Carolina by total area, although if considering land area only, it drops down to 68th in size among the state's 100 counties. Dare County is named after Virginia Dare, the first child born in the Americas to English parents, who was born within the county's current borders. Founded in 1870 from parts of Tyrrell…
US postage stamp issued in 1937, the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth
Baptism of Virginia Dare, wood-engraving, 1880
The return of Governor White to the "Lost Colony"
Memorial to Virginia Dare at St Bride's Church, Fleet St, London