Laura A. Barnes Shipwreck
The listing in the July 1921 issue of Marine Review about the Laura A. Barnes is a single line reading …
Category: Outer Banks History
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 …
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 …