Frequent vacationers of the Outer Banks may have been to The Lost Colony play on Roanoke Island once or twice before, but you may not be aware that one of the area's most famous figures, Andy Griffith, used to have a part in the play.
During his...
Unless you're a history buff and quite familiar with the Outer Banks, you probably have never heard of the Freedmen's Colony on Roanoke Island. You may have learned from previous grade school classes that the small coastal landmass was the site of the first English...
Before the beachfront in Nags Head, NC was lined with multi-story mansions designed for large vacationing families and groups, the oceanfront used to be packed full of small beach shacks that were often times constructed out of nothing more than wood scraps.
In the days before...
For three horrific days, the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 relentlessly lashed nearly 500 miles of the Eastern Seaboard, from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Cape Cod Massachusetts.The Ash Wednesday Storm and Hurricane Hazel in 1954 remain (and hopefully will continue to remain) the two...
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers from Dayton, Ohio, made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight which was over 110 years ago. The two brothers had no formal engineering training, yet they somehow defied gravity in their homemade flying machine over the sand...
Did you ever get a chance to visit the Nags Head Casino?
Reaching it's height in popularity during the 1960s, the Nags Head Casino was a two-story building located on beach road (NC 12) in Nags Head, North Carolina.
If you've vacationed on the Outer Banks before, then you may have heard of or seen the word Croatan. Torefresh your memory, our major five lane highway that stretches from Kitty Hawk to Nags Head uses the word (Croatan Hwy 158) and so does the major body...
For July's Outer Banks history lesson, we're going to focus on the OBX's true locals; Native Americans.
It's funny how history works. The "victors" definitely write the stories offering their side of the events. Sure, in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but 10,000 years prior...
June marks the anniversary of picking up the 4,400 ton, 200 foot tall black and white spiraled Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and moving it 2,900 feet to the southwest. A wild feat of engineering!
But what's the scoop? Seems like a crazy amount of...
Did you know that over 2,000 films have been filmed (full or partially) in North Carolina? 2K?! That's impressive. NC is sort of the Kevin Bacon of movie locations...we fit into any role.:)
North Carolina as a whole has a very diverse, and beautiful landscape......
