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After Hatteras schools were consolidated and the village came together to buy the old school building, Mrs. Lillie Peele helped an idea become a reality: a village library. With the help of the Hatteras Village Library Committee, Dare County Library Committee, and the Dare County Board of Commissioners, the library was commissioned in 1957 and served the community until 1976. A new library was then dedicated as the Lillie Oden Peele Library.
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29864
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Born in 1883, Mrs. Jenette Stowe has cared for people all her life. Now at the age of 93, Stowe has delivered over 300 babies as a midwife on the Outer Banks, from Ocracoke to Chicamacomico.
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The German steamship BREWSTER, bound for New York from Jamaica in 1909, landed in the middle of the Diamond Shoals. One of the largest ships to run aground with a crew of 33 men, BREWSTER was discovered by three lifesaving crews out of Cape Hatteras and Creeds Hill. The entire crew was saved and 11 men were awarded medals of honor for their part in the rescue.
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Born in Avon, North Carolina in 1871, Baxter Benjamin Miller entered the Life Saving Service in 1890 and retired after 30 years of service in 1921. Credited with saving over 300 lives during his career, Miller was awarded two Congressional Medals of Honor for Lifesaving, a Gold Medal from the US Government and silver watch from the German Government for rescue of the steampship BREWSTER, and a medal for the resuscitation of a man in 1911. Miller was also involved, on his last day of service in 1921, with the boarding party on the ghost ship, CARROLL A. DEERING.
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29867
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Urias O'Neal Gaskins (1878-1919) was the officer in charge of the Cape Hatteras Coast Guard Station and received a medal for his gallant efforts in the rescue of the steamship BREWSTER. Isaac L. Jennette (1857-1913) also spent his life in the service of the Coast Guard and earned a silver medal of honor for lifesaving assistance to the crew of BREWSTER. Edward J. Midgette, originally from Avon, North Carolina, also served 28 years in the lifesaving service.
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John Allen Midgett, educated in Rodanthe and Elizabeth City, North Carolina, joined the Life Saving Service as a surfman at Little Kinnakeet. He then moved onto Warrant Officer and then First Class Officer at Gull Shoal and then Chicamacomico Station. While at Chicamacomico, the ship MIRLO came to shore in 1918 under torpedo attack. Under Captain Johnny, boats attempted to rescue the crew, 44 taken back in Midgett's boat. Midgett received the Congressional and the English Medal, the cup and the American Cross of Honor for the MIRLO's rescue.
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29879
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Richard Dailey (1889-1966), spent 35 years in the service of the Weather Bureau Service, and helped make Hatteras Island an important place for the understanding and development of weather forecasting.
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Accounts of shipwrecks and rescues along the Outer Banks are often dramatic, and the rescue of the ANNA May is no exception. The fishing trawler went aground on Diamond Shoals in 1931. As the vessel sank, the crew of 5 were stranded clinging just above the breakers. Surviving over night, the crew were reached by Cape Hatteras Coast Guard lifeboats the following morning just as the mast broke into the waters.
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29887
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Don Edwards is completing an inventory of Hatteras Island graveyards and the conditions of the stones. Although many of the graveyards have been overgrown--and some destroyed--Edwards is making an effort to document the graves and their unique tombstones.
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29888
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Captain Ernal Foster helped his father catch sturgeon as a child, a tradition in North Carolina for many years, and Foster's father was one only a few men who knew the art of making caviar on the Outer Banks. Before North Carolina banned the setting of sturgeon nets, caviar could be made with a brine solution and sold relatively cheap.
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29889
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Margaret Wallace was fascinated with Portsmouth Island, North Carolina from the time she set foot there, and has been living there since she was given a lease on the school house from the state. While the Park Service maintains the buildings, Wallace provides a historical tour of Portsmouth from the 1750s on.
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29890
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Damon Gray spent several years as a porpoise fisherman on the North Carolina Outer Banks. Men would gather in dories to surround the porpoise schools, and oil from the jawbones was used to make machinery and watches.
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29891
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Oyster tongs, large wooden tongs with metal rakes, were used to gather oysters and pull them out of shallow waters. In the winter, when fishing was not always lucrative, oysters could be harvested with just a boat and some tongs. Up to 20 bushels a day could sell for up to $800 for the season.
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29892
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The first Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was completed in 1803 for a cost of $38,450 and kept by Adam Gaskins. But within the first year of service, the lighthouse was seeing problems. Oil cisterns were too small, fires destroyed glass lanterns, and erosion already began to tear away at the tower base. Despite contracts for repair, conditions continued to wear away with complaints of poor quality in the 1820s and 1830s. Although faults were corrected in the 1850s, raising the tower 150 feet and providing a new lighting device, Union forces captured the light in 1861 while Confederate soldiers took the lens. After the war, it was determined to be cheaper to build a new lighthouse than fix this one, so the old tower was torn down.
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29893
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The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, now 108 years old, stands only 310 feet from the inlet. As erosion threatens the Outer Banks, the National Park Service is considering three options to save the lighthouse: let nature take its course; move the lighthouse; or build up the beach around it.
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