| The discovery | On this day in 1587, Virginia Dare, the first American child of European parents, was born at the Roanoke colony in what is today North Carolina.
The child's parents were killed two years later by a creature known only as 'the Devourer', and Virginia herself might have also perished had she not been rescued by members of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian nation. |
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Adopted into the Haliwa-Sapone tribe, she was given the new name 'White Doe' and would later be credited with discovering the secret for ending the Devourer's reign of terror. |