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The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958
About this book
The Outer Banks have long been of interest to geologists, historians, linguists, sportsmen, and beachcombers. This long series of low, narrow, sandy islands stretches along the North Carolina coast for more than 175 miles.
Here on Roanoke Island in the 1580s, the first English colony in the New World was established. It vanished soon after, becoming the famous “lost colony.” At Ocracoke, in 1718, the pirate Blackbeard was killed; at Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island important Civil War battles were fought; at Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills the Wright brothers experimented with gliders and in 1903 made their epic flight. The Graveyard of the Atlantic, scene of countless shipwrecks, lies all along the ever-shifting shores of the Banks.
This is the fascinating story of the Banks and the Bankers; of whalers, stockmen, lifesavers, wreckers, boatmen, and fishermen; of the constantly changing inlets famous for channel bass fishing; and of the once thriving Diamond City that disappeared completely in a three-year period.
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Index
- Adams Creek Canal, 75, 182
- Adams, James, 42
- Adelaide, steamer, 120, 126, 127
- Adventure, Blackbeard's sloop, 30-31, 313
- Adventures of Old Dan Tucker and bis son Walter; a tale of North Carolina, 273
- A. H. Schultz, steamer, 101, 102
- Airplane, invention of, 195-211
- Albemarle, steamer, 182n
- Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, 181, 182
- Albemarle River, 5, 265
- Albemarle Sound, 2, 5, 18, 26, 68, 70, 85, 86, 101, 132, 143, 182, 219, 227, 264, 265, 275-76
- Allaire, James P., 114
- Alligator River, 182, 277
- All-Seashore Highway Association, 302
- Alston, John, Gov. of S. C., 273
- Alston, Theodosia Burr, 273
- Amadas, Capt. Philip, 14, 17-18, 261
- American Beacon (Norfolk, Va.), 101-2, 268, 272
- American Journal of Science, The, 256
- American Missionary Society, 164
- Anaconda, privateer, 84
- Ancestry, of Bankers, 73
- Anderson and Barr, 293
- Anderson, Capt. James, 48-49, 52
- Andrews, Lt., 144
- Andrews, Maj. W. S. G., 126-27
- Annapolis, Md., 138
- Appomatox, steamer, 141
- “Arabs,” term for Bankers, 273
- A. Riddick, packet schooner, 102
- Ariosto, steamer, 299
- Arkites, reli...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Contents
- Maps
- Sand, Sounds, and Inlets
- Exploration
- Permanent Settlement
- The Revolution
- Statehood
- Watering Places
- Storms and Shipwrecks
- The Civil War
- Federal Occupation
- Ushering in the Modern Era
- Diamond City
- The Wright Brothers
- A Living from the Sea
- New Life for the Banks
- The Banks Today
- References and Bibliographical Notes
- Index