38125

Forrest, Lewis C., Jr.

Since the late 19th century, this lake has provided hunting grounds for game birds such as geese, ducks, and swans. It has also provided opportunities for hunting guides, the well-known including John Harold Swindell and Percy Carawan. The hunting continues, albeit without guides, and game birds are in abundance, protected by the Wildlife Commission regulations.

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 5, October/November 2018, p12-15

Lake Mattamuskeet--History; Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge--History; Decoy carvers; Decoy carvers--Hyde County; Hunting guides; Lake Mattamuskeet; Hyde County--History; Hunting; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission; Swindell, A.B.

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Griffin, Deborah

This trail includes ten churches representing Baptist, Episcopal, and Christian Churches, with nine of the churches on the National Register of Historic Places. In towns such as Bear Grass, Hamilton, Robersonville, Everetts, Jamesville, Williamston, and Oak City, they include St. Martin’s Episcopal, Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church, and Oak City Christian Church.

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 5, October/November 2018, p18-21, 23

Historic churches--Martin County; Bear Grass Primitive Baptist Church; St. Martin Episcopal Church (Hamilton); Everettes Christian Church; Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church; Jamesville Primitive Baptist Church; Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church (Williamston); Spring Green Primitive Baptist Church (Hamilton); Smithwick's Creek Primitive Baptist Church (Williamston); Oak City Christian Church; First Christian Church of Robersonville; Primitive Baptists--History; Primitive Baptists

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The Hyde County house built in 1857 continues to draw attention for reasons that go beyond its unique architectural design. Thus far, two restoration phases are complete: a matching grant from the Covington Foundation yielded a repaired roof; phase two involved raising the house to make room for brick piers. As for phase three, fundraising and expert advice from the State Preservation Office is part of the plan for repairs on outside surfaces and the first floor fireplaces.

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 5, October/November 2018, p26

Hyde County--History; Antebellum period, 1820-1861; Octagon House (Engelhard); Historic houses--Hyde County; Historic houses--Engelhard; Historic homes

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Beachboard, Leslie; Jenkins, Jay

The mystery around the Chowan River was two-fold: Lost Colonists of Roanoke Island; Dorothie, whose remains are believed discovered in Bennett’s Creek. Both parts of the mystery are examined in Don Upchurch’s In Pursuit of Dorothie, the Lost Colony Ship. Part investigation, part speculation, it explores a three-fold explanation for the two-fold mystery. The Dorothie transported the Colonists out of Roanoke, which means they survived beyond 1590, thus offering Croatan a meaning not related to death, but a new life.

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 5, October/November 2018, p30, 32-34, 36

DOROTHIE (Ship); Lost Colony; Roanoke Island--History; Upchurch, Donald P., Sr. 1947-2015; Chowan River; Bennett's Creek (Gates County) ; Gates County--History; Schooners; In Pursuit of Dorothie: The Lost Colony Ship (book)

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Hopkins, Janice

Early Station’s depot closing can be easily explained: Atlantic Coast’s ceasing operation meant the closure of a station once providing passage to towns like Ahoskie and Norfolk three times a day. The more recent spelling of the town’s name as Earleys can be explained as an error; it was named for the Early family. As for the light seen around the abandoned depot, it has yielded no explanation and much speculation. Speculations for this phenomenon: stories always involving a man’s decapitation and everlasting search by the man’s spirit for his head.

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 5, October/November 2018, p38-39

Early's Station--history; Ghost stories--North Carolina, Eastern; Railroads--Depots; Hertford County--History; Ahoskie; Bertie County--History; Atlantic Coast Railroad

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Hamlet, Ashley

This avian sanctuary offers more than shelter for a myriad of water and land fowl. For North Carolina and Virginia’s public school students, it has become a popular field trip destination. On a higher education note, East Carolina University and Sylvan Heights are collaborating in endangered species conservation and research opportunities. Individuals of all ages can partake in its other educational endeavors: festivals, guided tours, conservation and research talks, field sketching workshops, and birding trips.

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 5, October/November 2018, p58-60

Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park (Scotland Neck); Sylvan Heights Bird Park (Scotland Neck); Waterfowl conservation; Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge; Birding sites; Birdwatching; East Carolina University ; Conservation of wildlife; Ornithology

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Greene, Brenda

Enfield, population about 1,000 in the early twentieth century, had two larger than life distinctions: early adopter among North Carolina’s towns of crop rotation; world’s top producer of raw peanuts. Even if it no longer can offer the latter boast, the author proclaims Enfield can still tout its peanuts as the tastiest in the world in events like its Cotton and Peanut Festival.

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 5, October/November 2018, p62-64

Enfield--history; Carver, George Washington; Peanuts--cash crops; Crop rotation; Aunt Ruby's Peanuts (Enfield)