Category: The History Of The Outer Banks
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...
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...