Category: The History Of The Outer Banks
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...
More Than a Shipwreck-What the Catherine M Monahan Tells Us About Our History
December 19, 2019
The
sinking of the Catherine M Monahan doesn’t carry with it the excitement of a
daring rescue dur...
Reginald Fessenden and the Founding Days of Radio
December 17, 2019
Reginald
Fessenden is a largely forgotten figure in the history of radio. Not
necessarily on the Out...
Outer Banks Firsts
December 12, 2019
Over
the years—the many years— that Outer Banks has been a place of numerous firsts.
We thought ...
Traditional Songs of the Outer Banks
November 27, 2019
We
don’t think of the Outer Banks as a remote place. Admittedly part of its charm
is that there ar...
Outer Banks WWII Radar Stations
October 28, 2019
It can be difficult trying to find information about what really happened on the Outer Banks in WWII...
The Sinking of the City of Atlanta
October 4, 2019
World War II was a terrifying time along the Outer Banks in 1942. A narrow predictable shipping lane...
Joachim Gans – The First Scientific Lab in the Americas
September 30, 2019
Joachim
Gans is not a well-known name. Maybe that will change because a highway marker
was just dedi...
The Sinking of the Kentucky-Something New from Something Old
September 1, 2019
When the steamship Kentucky was launched she was one of the last of a
dying breed of ships, yet as s...