Show RALEIGH'S BIG GRAPE VINE 4 A y Visitors to Roanoke Island never neverfail rail fall to see the scuppernong grape vine the largest In the world that Is known as Sir Walter Raleigh's grape vine It Nas was planted by Raleigh's party which which s settled in in Roanoke Island N. N C. C more than years e r a. a ago ado o. o The file adventurers ad adventurers j- j left England on April 27 27 1584 with the following charter from Queen Elizabeth Power is hereby given to Raleigh and his assigns by bythe bythe the queen freely treely to search for and occupy occupy occupy oc oc- oc- oc cupy and enjoy fo ever such remote and barbarous lands not possessed by any Christian people as to him might seem good He Is at liberty to tako take with him to such lands and leave there for Inhabitants as many of the bushes and so forth The immense scuppernong grape vine with stem larger round than a mans man's body Is an interesting relic of the past and bears fruit abundantly |