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    Category: The History Of The Outer Banks

    Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary with Outer Banks History

    By Kip Tabb
    July 1, 2026
    The Outer Banks is celebrating our nation's 250th anniversary this year with events, exhibits, and p...
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    First Flight High School RV12 Build Takeoff

    First Flight High Students Build Airplane at Wright Brothers Memorial

    By Kip Tabb
    June 1, 2026
    Give or take a few months, 123 years ago Wilbur and Orville Wright built an airplane at what was, at...
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    Andrew Cartwright Road Sign on the Outer Banks

    Andrew Cartwright—The Outer Banks’ Missionary to Africa

    By Kip Tabb
    March 5, 2025
    Just a little past the intersection of US 64 and old US 64 as it heads to Manteo, there’s a histor...
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    The Bittersweet Voyage of the Golden Ship Hatteras Book

    The Bittersweet Voyage of the Golden Ship Hatteras—A Love Story

    By Kip Tabb
    January 2, 2025
    Ira David Wood III is probably best known on the Outer Banks as the director of The Lost Colony for ...
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    Outer Banks Boatbuilding During WWII

    New Book about Manteo Tells Story of Outer Banks Boatbuilding during WWII

    By Kip Tabb
    November 1, 2024
    LeVern Davis Parker grew up in Manteo and left for several years to pursue a career in education, bu...
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    Hatteras Lighthouse Restoration October 2024

    Attention to Detail in Hatteras Lighthouse Restoration

    By Kip Tabb
    October 11, 2024
    The renovation of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse still has a year and a half to go—its scheduled re-...
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    Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Restoration -Scaffolding halfway up

    Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: A Historic Restoration Underway

    By Kip Tabb
    July 26, 2024
    There is perhaps no lighthouse in the United States as iconic as the Hatteras Lighthouse. Soaring 19...
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    jockey ridge state park outer banks

    Save Our Dunes—The Story of Saving Jockey’s Ridge for Children

    By Kip Tabb
    June 5, 2024
    The 50th anniversary of the official opening of Jockey’s Ridge State Park is just around the corne...
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    When Ghosts Made Moonshine Book

    New Book Highlights East Lake Outer Banks Moonshine Industry

    By Kip Tabb
    April 1, 2024
    When Ghosts Made Moonshine, Prohibition in the Albemarle is a just published book by local author Ch...
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    Tom Midgett harvesting Cranberries Dare County

    Unveiling the Hidden Harvest: Dare County’s Cranberry Legacy

    By Kip Tabb
    December 8, 2023
    Cranberries? In North Carolina? Of course—it’s well-known cranberries like colder weather in the...
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    Outer Banks Shipwreck near Albacore ramp in Corolla. Research shows it is not the Metropolis.

    Historic Shipwreck Makes an Appearance on Corolla Beach

    By Kip Tabb
    June 13, 2023
    Some new research may give some insights into what really happened during one of the most terrible O...
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    Our Family, Its History, Their Boats

    Our Family, Its History, Their Boats | Outer Banks Boat Building

    By Kip Tabb
    September 7, 2022
    Tracing the History of Outer Banks Boatbuilding It was just after the Civil War that George Wash...
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