Category: The History Of The Outer Banks
New Book about Manteo Tells Story of Outer Banks Boatbuilding during WWII
November 1, 2024
LeVern Davis Parker grew up in Manteo and left for several years to pursue a career in education, bu...
Attention to Detail in Hatteras Lighthouse Restoration
October 11, 2024
The renovation of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse still has a year and a half to go—its scheduled re-...
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: A Historic Restoration Underway
July 26, 2024
There is perhaps no lighthouse in the United States as iconic as the Hatteras Lighthouse. Soaring 19...
Save Our Dunes—The Story of Saving Jockey’s Ridge for Children
June 5, 2024
The 50th anniversary of the official opening of Jockey’s Ridge State Park is just around the corne...
New Book Highlights East Lake Outer Banks Moonshine Industry
April 1, 2024
When Ghosts Made Moonshine, Prohibition in the Albemarle is a just published book by local author Ch...
Unveiling the Hidden Harvest: Dare County’s Cranberry Legacy
December 8, 2023
Cranberries? In North Carolina? Of course—it’s well-known cranberries like colder weather in the...
Historic Shipwreck Makes an Appearance on Corolla Beach
June 13, 2023
Some new research may give some insights into what really happened during one of the most terrible O...
Our Family, Its History, Their Boats | Outer Banks Boat Building
September 7, 2022
Tracing the History of Outer Banks Boatbuilding
It was just after the Civil War that George Wash...
The Crabby Lady Suzanne Tate
August 16, 2022
It’s possible that Suzanne Tate will never slow down. Sure at 92 years of age, her reflexes have s...
Wanchese and the History of Outer Banks Fishing
March 21, 2022
Coming from the Outer Banks at the intersection of US64 Business and US64, there are some choices to...
Why is the Sign by the Road – The Story Behind the Signs
August 18, 2021
We pass highway markers all the time, those footnotes to history that North Carolina has placed alon...
A Ernest Mills Outer Banks Shipwreck
June 25, 2021
Terror on the High Seas
The Atlantic Ocean off the shoreline of the Currituck Banks was calm on t...