Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake are among ten house names being removed at Exeter School - GETTY A private school has ...

The Raleigh Marriott City Center is downtown’s latest hotel, but the opening reminds some of the city’s oldest surviving hotel building – the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel. Built between 1923 and 1924, the ...

It's one of the nation's great mysteries: The first permanent colony of English settlers in what would become the U.S., founded in North Carolina in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh, disappeared three years ...

The bronze statue of Sir Walter Raleigh that used to stand on the Fayetteville Street Mall will return downtown Saturday night as part of the Raleigh Wide Open 2 celebration, Mayor Charles Meeker said ...

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