Category: The History Of The Outer Banks
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...
U-Boats Off the Outer Banks
October 30, 2017
Jim Bunch - Master Story Teller, and his book “U-Boats Off the Outer Banks”
Author Jim Bunch ...
Mysterious Happenings on the Outer Banks
October 10, 2017
With a rich and often times stronger history, the Outer Banks has had its share of mysterious happen...
Moor Shore Road—A Piece of Outer Banks History
October 7, 2017
Moor Shore Road in Kitty Hawk is perhaps a half mile long at the most. A pretty road, it begins at i...
A Brief History of the Hunt Clubs of the Outer Banks
September 29, 2017
Before the first European set foot in North America, Currituck Sound was already renowned as a hunte...
NC – VA Boundary Marker Secrets
August 25, 2017
The Secret Life of Boundary Markers
At the northernmost point of Carova, against the fence that m...
Northern Outer Banks Inlets
May 16, 2017
It’s standard knowledge that the Outer Banks is a dynamic strip of sand. Since the 1930’s, it ha...
Outer Banks Airports from WWII
February 10, 2017
It’s been noted a number of times that the Outer Banks was ground zero for the Battle of the Atlan...
Old Christmas on the Outer Banks
December 23, 2016
Even though the Tri-Villages of Hatteras Island, Rodanthe, Waves, and Salvo are the first towns on t...