Category: The History Of The Outer Banks
The Lesser-Known Tales of Blackbeard
August 16, 2018
In the Pirate’s Wake - The Other Tales of Blackbeard
Behind every great pirate, there are stories...
Carteret Town | What Manteo Could Have Been
August 13, 2018
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The Curious History of Colington Island
July 22, 2018
Colington Island - An Early History
The names of the towns, villages, and areas of the Outer Banks ...
4 Outer Banks Facts that May Surprise You
July 18, 2018
4 Facts about Outer Banks History that Will Surprise You
Looking around at the modern version of th...
Buffalo City, A Dare County Ghost Town
June 10, 2018
As US 64 heads west after passing through Manns Harbor, an apparently impenetrable marsh and swamp s...
History of the Outer Banks
May 18, 2018
The Outer Banks of North Carolina seems to have risen from the sea approximately 10,000 to 12,000 ye...
The Stories of Shipwrecks | An Interview with Dr. Nathan Richards of the Coastal Studies Institute
April 28, 2018
History is often recorded in books, in the writings of great figures of the past and present and man...
The Mystery of the Carrol A. Deering Shipwreck
April 20, 2018
Carroll A. Deering Shipwreck - The Mystery That Endures
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Myths of the Lost Colony
February 24, 2018
The Lost Colony: What We’ve Learned, What We Still Don’t Know
As we approach the 81st year of t...
Pappy’s Lane Shipwreck
February 15, 2018
Shipwreck Mystery Solved -
Taking the form of mystery novel, a team of marine scientists at the Coa...
Oregon and Hatteras Inlets and the Hurricane of 1846
December 1, 2017
Sometime around 1825, the New Currituck Inlet closed for the last time, creating a rare—perhaps un...
Legends of the Sandbar – Book Review
November 30, 2017
The images in Chris Bickford’s book Legends of the Sandbar are black and white, but his world is a...