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The town of Marshallberg is today located on a land grant dating to 1713. The property’s first owner, George Bell, deeded the estate to his heirs who would construct the town’s first industry, a windmill, on site in 1819. When a request was made for a local post office, the community adopted the name Marshallberg in honor of the local mail boat operator, Matt Marshall. The community continued to grow, and by the early 1900s, was engaged with seafood packing and processing. In 1910, a shipbuilding practice was established which would operate through the 1990s. The community underwent many changes during the 20th century although it still retains a post office and active fishing community.
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For those on the Outer Banks and Carteret County, conflict with the British Navy was continual between 1776 and 1782. Yocum describes the six-year struggle and the patriots who defended coastal Carolina.
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Cudworth Cemetery near Wanchese on Roanoke Island marks the final resting place of nineteen homeless men who, during the Great Depression, were among hundreds employed on the Outer Banks's beach erosion control work from 1936 to 1941. Before World War II brought an end to the project, almost 200 miles of barrier dunes had been constructed. Senter recounts their story.
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Chicamacomico was one of the most famous lifesaving stations on the Outer Banks. Restored, the building opened as a museum in 1982. Now a second building on the property, built in 1874, is under restoration. Mosher chronicles the restoration, which is being done true to the original style of construction.
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With tourism increasing on the Outer Banks, developers began hotel construction. The Nags Header Hotel, a three-story oceanfront structure built at Milepost 11 for $20,000, opened in May 1935. It was billed as the Carolina coast's finest hotel. Amenities included a bath in every room with hot and cold running water. The hotel burned to the ground October 28, 1978. The author's grandfather, George C. Culpepper, Sr., owned the hotel from 1944 to 1970.
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Thousands of ships have met disaster off North Carolina's Outer Banks. The authors describe the fate of three lost in the 19th-century: the HURON, METROPOLIS, and the CRISSIE WRIGHT.
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For three years prior to their historic flight in December 1903, the Wright Brothers battled the elements on the Outer Banks, enduring strong winds, rains, storms, lightning, and the \"bloody beasts\" - mosquitoes. Excerpts from letters home prove the Wright Brothers had the right stuff to persevere.
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Rough-hewn and homely roothead decoys carved on the Outer Banks are highly prized by collectors who pay thousands of dollars for them. Most were carved before 1918, and carvers between Portsmouth Island and Hatteras Village are credited with their construction and use in the 19th-century. They are called roothead decoys because the carver used natural curves in roots and branches to form decoy heads.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 12, Dec 2000,
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The Outer Banks Pea Island Lifesaving Station was the nation's only station manned by African Americans. Operating from the late 19th-century until 1947, when machines made rowboats obsolete, the surfmen aided over 30 distressed ships and saved over 200 people. Their most famous rescue was saving the crew of the hurricane-ravaged schooner E.S. NEWMAN on October 11, 1896.
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In the early days of World War II, residents of the Outer Banks' communities, including Harkers Island and villagers on Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, saw the war up close and personal, as German submarines sank Allied ships within sight of the mainland. Cheatham recounts incidents from the dark days of 1942, when German U-Boats ruled the seas off North Carolina.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 12 Issue 2, Nov 1999,
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An unlikely pairing on Hatteras Island in 1923 of an illiterate, self-taught midwife, Bathsheba Foster (\"Mis' Bashi\") and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine graduate Blanche Nettleton Epler provides a picture of maternity care and the dangers women faced in childbirth a hundred years ago.
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Charles Harry Whedbee (1875-1945) was Greenville’s chief district court judge who dedicated much of his time to preserving Outer Banks folklore. This article presents his life history and accomplishments, one of which was drinking from Blackbeard’s skull.
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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,
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The author recalls family trips to visit his grandparents in Buxton. Goodwin's grandfather, James Oliver Casey, was a keeper of the lighthouse. Among his responsibilities was maintaining the light, which included carrying five gallons of kerosene to the top of the lighthouse each day. Goodwin remembers catching ferries across the inlet and driving across sand to Buxton. There were no roads at that time, and drivers were careful to avoid quicksand. If travelers were in trouble, the Coast Guard offered quick assistance. At his grandparent's home, Goodwin enjoyed large family meals that usually included seafood, such as fresh-caught fish, crabs, oysters, and scallops. The Outer Banks have changed since Goodwin's childhood. During the Great Depression, for instance, the Civilian Conservation Corps built dunes along the island and planted trees to stabilize the island's continuously shifting sands.
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