Category: The History Of The Outer Banks
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...
Billy Mitchell and the Outer Banks
August 9, 2019
Two
US battleships, the USS New Jersey and the USS Virginia, rest 300’ beneath the
waters of the A...
Outer Banks Shipwreck seen from land – Oriental aka “The Boiler”
June 14, 2019
We
may never know what caused the Oriental to run aground in May of 1862.
The
Delaware County (P...
Raleigh’s Historie of the World on the Outer Banks
May 7, 2019
There
is at the Outer Banks History Center at Roanoke Island Festival Park, a most
remarkable book. ...
The Miracle of the Mirlo Rescue
March 15, 2019
When a German torpedo struck the British Tanker Mirlo in the afternoon of August 16, 1918 off the co...