Cape Hatteras National Seashore – How the Nation’s First National Seashore Came to Be
Stretching from South Nags Head to Ocracoke, Cape Hatteras National Seashore is one of the most beautiful parts of the …
Category: Outer Banks History
A Day of Fear and Heroism
In many ways, WWI was a harbinger of things to come, from the introduction of what we now consider modern …
The Wreck of the Irma…As Told through the Eyes of a Budding Young Author
When the three-masted schooner Irma ran aground in Kill Devil Hills in 1925, she became one of a popular site …
Laura A. Barnes Shipwreck
The listing in the July 1921 issue of Marine Review about the Laura A. Barnes is a single line reading …
The Wooden Road to Hatteras
The ride to Hatteras Island as it passes through Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge has a beauty that is not …
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 …
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 …