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AlanHCooper: Queen Elizabeth II, a replica of the type of boat that brought Englishmen to Roanoke Island in 1584.
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AlanHCooper: A restored lighthouse is in excellent condition
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AlanHCooper: The 1904 Dare County Courthouse is now an art gallery
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AlanHCooper: The Elizabethan Gardens have received a major upgrade since we last visited more than 20 years ago
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AlanHCooper: The statute of Elizabeth I was installed in 2006
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AlanHCooper: The gardens are full of magnificent live oaks, some of which were around in 1584
AlanHCooper: A statute depicts how Virginia Dare, the first English person born in the new world, might have looked
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AlanHCooper: The plantings in the sunken gardens, with statutes depicting the four seasons, are loveley
AlanHCooper: Not all the visitors to the garden are human
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