More Than a Shipwreck-What the Catherine M Monahan Tells Us About Our History
The sinking of the Catherine M Monahan doesn’t carry with it the excitement of a daring rescue during a hurricane …
Category: Outer Banks History
Reginald Fessenden and the Founding Days of Radio
Reginald Fessenden is a largely forgotten figure in the history of radio. Not necessarily on the Outer Banks where some …
Outer Banks Firsts
Over the years—the many years— that Outer Banks has been a place of numerous firsts. We thought it would be …
Traditional Songs of the Outer Banks
We don’t think of the Outer Banks as a remote place. Admittedly part of its charm is that there are …
Outer Banks WWII Radar Stations
It can be difficult trying to find information about what really happened on the Outer Banks in WWII. It’s certainly …
The Sinking of the City of Atlanta
World War II was a terrifying time along the Outer Banks in 1942. A narrow predictable shipping lane along the …
Joachim Gans – The First Scientific Lab in the Americas
Joachim Gans is not a well-known name. Maybe that will change because a highway marker was just dedicated to him …
The Sinking of the Kentucky-Something New from Something Old
When the steamship Kentucky was launched she was one of the last of a dying breed of ships, yet as …
Billy Mitchell and the Outer Banks
Two US battleships, the USS New Jersey and the USS Virginia, rest 300’ beneath the waters of the Atlantic. About …
Outer Banks Shipwreck seen from land – Oriental aka “The Boiler”
We may never know what caused the Oriental to run aground in May of 1862. The Delaware County (PA) American, …