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At age 102, Wayland Baum is thought to be the oldest living former employee of the U.S. Lighthouse Service. His father, Thomas Hardy Baum, was an assistant lighthouse keeper at stations on the Outer Banks. Wayland was born August 16, 1904. Baum recounts his days as a substitute lighthouse keeper and time spent on a boat that delivered supplies to the lighthouses. He later had a career in commercial and charter boat fishing and guiding waterfowl hunters. Baum retired at 85 and maintains his own home, washing the windows and painting the house when it needs it.
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8956
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As early as 1694, livestock was being raised and sold on the Outer Banks. Although subject to the onslaught of storms, livestock was well fed and protected by the marshes. Because of overpopulation, free ranging stock has been almost completely eliminated in recent decades.\r\n
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In 1949, before he became a world-famous poet, A. R. Ammons held his first teaching job at Hatteras Elementary School in Hatteras Village on the Outer Banks.
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The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site at Rodanthe on Hatteras Island is the most complete of the few remaining stations on the East Coast. These stations were the predecessors of the Coast Guard Service, and the stories of the daring rescues they performed are legendary. Chicamacomico closed in 1954 after seventy years of service. Today, the Chicamacomico Historical Association keeps the memory of the station and the men who served there alive through living history performances.
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Blanton Saunders, who lives around the Currituck Sound, has been a guide, decoy maker, skiff-builder, and chronicler of the old ways of living on the Outer Banks. Now 72, he looks back on a way of life that is disappearing.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 45 Issue 11, Nov 1981,
p8-12, il
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10287
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Before the advent of the new hard-surfaced highway on the Outer Banks, bus travel to Hatteras could be a long, often thrilling experience. The Midgett family has operated the route for almost thirty years. The trip could take as much as six hours to complete. Travel was over the sand trails, with detours into the surf at times in order to find firmer sand and crossing Oregon Inlet was by ferry.
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In February of 1750, a fleet of five Spanish ships heavily loaded with silver and spices sailed from Veracruz, the collection point of the Spanish Empire in the New World, to Havana. From there, the ships were to sail for Europe, but were instead wrecked by gale force winds along the coast of North Carolina. The EL SALVADOR, the NEUSTRA SIGNORA DE SOLEDAD, and three unnamed vessels were lost at various points on the Carolina coast, ranging from Topsail Island, to Ocracoke, Hatteras, and New Currituck Inlet.
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13277
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The Outer Banks have been called North Carolina's most pronounced geographical curiosity. Pleasants details the history and the changes that have occurred on the Outer Banks.
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13322
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Including Core Sound, Core Bank, Shackleford Bank, and Cape Lookout, this article discusses the water and history of this region of North Carolina's southern Outer Banks.
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13467
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Containing photos from 1936 through the 1950s, this article discusses roadway improvements on the Outer Banks. Including information relative to sites along the way, Bill Sharpe revisits the various phases of transportation support extended to these offshore islands.
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Known as the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic', the state's Outer Banks hindered settlement and caused the loss of hundreds of ships throughout history. Inaccessible waterways deterred growth during the colonial period and slowed growth of shipping during the 19th- and early 20th-century. Recently, the Outer Banks have transformed from deterrent to economic boom, generating revenue from vacationers seeking beaches and fishing.
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David Stick has written four major histories of the North Carolina coast. Through Stick's books and articles, the reader gains not only a factual chronicle of the history of the North Carolina coast, but also a lively appreciation of the details of regional traditional life--of the forms and functions of the folk-life of communities and occupational groups along the Outer Banks.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 36 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1989,
p70-72, bibl
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19416
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For the first seven months of World War II, German U-Boats ruled the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Waters off North Carolina's Outer Banks were a favorite hunting ground as night after night explosions at sea signaled the sinking of another Allied ship. By the time the Germans withdrew their U-Boats in July, over 400 ships were sunk or damaged from New England to New Orleans and 5,000 sailors were killed. Over sixty ships went down off the Outer Banks.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 11, Apr 2013,
p50-52, 54, 56-58, 60, il
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19531
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Captain Ernie Foster's father, Captain Ernal Foster, started the first charter boat business on North Carolina's Outer Banks in 1937. Locals laughed at him at first and wondered how such an undertaking could be successful; yet, over the years his business grew and prospered. Captain Ernie is probably the last captain in the original family. Sports fishing, however, is a big competitor of commercial fishing, and Captain Ernie works to keep his family fleet that fishes for fun.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 12, May 2013,
p130-134, 136-138, 140, 142-144, il, por
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20768
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This article provides a history of the Outer Banks during the period of the Revolutionary War with a particular focus on Ocracoke Island and Ocracoke Inlet. Progressing chronologically, the author details troop positions, defenses, and naval maneuvers made on the barrier islands during the war years.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 36 Issue 1, January 1959,
p1-16, f
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