Category: The History Of The Outer Banks
History of Outer Banks Town Names
March 30, 2021
The towns of the Outer Banks have very distinctive names. Mostly there's nothing at all that sounds ...
Becoming the Outer Banks
March 8, 2021
Driving along the Bypass or the Beach Road through the main Outer Banks towns of Kitty Hawk, Kill De...
The Sinking of the S.S. Home
February 19, 2021
The bones of ships are constantly sinking beneath the sands of the Outer Banks, then reappearing to ...
Outer Banks Books—History and Nonfiction
December 18, 2020
With over 400 years of history from the first attempt at a British colony in 1584 until today, the O...
The George A Kohler—The Story of the Charred Remains of the Ship
November 22, 2020
Today the George A. Kohler is the charred skeleton of a once proud ship resting on the beach a few m...
The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944
November 18, 2020
There is in some places a perception that hurricanes are frequent visitors to the Outer Banks. They�...
Fun Facts About The Outer Banks
August 3, 2020
Throughout it's rich history, the Outer Banks of North Carolina has long been a source of wonder, in...
Cape Hatteras National Seashore – How the Nation’s First National Seashore Came to Be
April 17, 2020
Stretching
from South Nags Head to Ocracoke, Cape Hatteras National Seashore is one of the
most beau...
A Day of Fear and Heroism
April 11, 2020
In
many ways, WWI was a harbinger of things to come, from the introduction of what
we now consider m...
The Wreck of the Irma…As Told through the Eyes of a Budding Young Author
February 21, 2020
When the three-masted schooner Irma ran aground in Kill Devil Hills in 1925, she became one of a pop...
Laura A. Barnes Shipwreck
February 7, 2020
The
listing in the July 1921 issue of Marine Review about the Laura A. Barnes is a
single line readi...
The Wooden Road to Hatteras
January 25, 2020
The ride to Hatteras Island as it passes through Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge has a beauty th...