![]() ![]() The spot, roughly 175 yards from the two lanes of Buie-Philadelphus Road, can be found off a short, sandy farming road toward the back of a near orchard of pine trees. That news account is reprinted in the books "The Survival of the Lost Colony: The Untold Story" and "The Lost and Found." ![]() That's sacred ground for the (Lumbee) community."Ī superstition has lingered among some tribal members that "the Great Spirit will frown upon those who dare molest this sacred soil," according to an Associated Press story that appeared in Lumberton's Robesonian newspaper on May 18, 1938. History has been passed down from generation to generation that that's who is buried there. "I had a grandma, aunt, uncle, who stayed right there in that community. ![]() "That is where Virginia Dare is buried," Chavis maintains. The unverified grave site, largely abandoned and neglected in a rural stretch of the county, is one mile west of the Philadelphus Presbyterian Church outside the town of Red Springs. RED SPRINGS - All his life, Everton Chavis has heard the legend, the claims from elders of the Lumbee Indian tribe that the first English child born in the Americas is buried in Robeson County. Editor's note: This story was originally published in October 2017. ![]()
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