Rhode Island
Ralph Lane was an English explorer who was unsuccessful at establishing a colony. He attempted to colonize Roanoke Island in 1585.
Ralegh's settlement in what is now North Carolina was on Roanoke Island. It became known as 'the lost colony'. It was designated the Cittie of Ralegh, but the name never quite took hold because the colony failed.
A colony.
The British Raj
Because it was red
Massachusetts Bay Colony;Roger Williams got expelled then founded the colony what now is called Rhode Island.
The Rhode Island colony was named after the Dutch word "Roodt Eylandt," which translates to "red island." This name was inspired by the reddish hue of the clay along the shores of what is now known as Aquidneck Island. The term was first used by the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano in the 1520s, and it was later adopted in the naming of the colony as it developed.
The French colony of Hispaniola was called Saint Domingue. This colony had been in existence on the Caribbean island from 1659 to 1809.
Rhode Islanders.
In North Carolina. It was an Island called Viginia. :D
A French colony was located on the island of Hispaniola, called Saint Domingue which is now called Haiti.
from the first explore who named it that which means red island in dutch~Maggie C. Rodriguez
It was called Rhode island red.
Rodger Williams left Massachusetts and founded a New Colony that eventually would become Rhode Island. The Colony was originally called the Colony of Providence Plantation.
The oldest town in Virgina is called Dumfries 1749. But the oldest known colony in Virgina was on the island of Roanoke called the Roanoke Colony.
An island in the English channel called Jersey.