Drawing from maps created by a teacher and his students, historian David Cecelski aims to get a feel for the lumber mill villages in Hyde County that have long since disappeared.
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Public can speak out on proposed Gullah Geechee Trail
The 14-mile-long study area spans from Phoenix Park in Navassa to Brunswick Nature Park.
Edenton’s history ‘an everyday part of life’ for its residents
The Chowan County town of 5,000 boasts one of the largest groups of historic buildings in North Carolina, numerous notable figures from the past and the distinction of creating the state’s the historic preservation movement.
‘Crafted from Wood’ to open at Elizabeth City museum
The exhibit opening Nov. 11 explores the gift of crafting treasures from wood while highlighting the training and abilities of the crafter.
Road to Makatoka: Logging the Green Swamp, 1910-1930
Early 20th century photographs of the Waccamaw Lumber Co.’s operations in Columbus and Brunswick counties also depict an almost Wild West-like society of loggers and lumbermen.
Long a destination, Morehead City on road to change
Historical analysis: Morehead City, incorporated in 1857 and planned around a proposed railroad line connecting the coast to the Piedmont, could see its transportation importance and infrastructure grow significantly in the years ahead.
Five years after Hurricane Florence, Down East to look back
The two-day seminar set for Tuesday and Wednesday will focus on environmental changes since the 2018 hurricane and consider ways to prepare for the next.
Murray Bridges, NC soft-crab industry pioneer, dies at 89
Bridges, who owned and operated Endurance Seafood Co. off Colington Road since 1976, was the second person confirmed to have died from Vibrio in Dare County since July.
NC’s coastal national parks boost economy by $1B in 2022
The five national parks on North Carolina’s coast saw a total direct visitor spending in 2022 of nearly $724, yielding an economic output of around $964 million.
The trouble at the Woodville convict labor camp
Historian David Cecelski shares an excerpt about a brief strike in April 1935 at a convict labor camp in Perquimans County from Dr. Susan Thomas’ dissertation that examines the history of the largely African American chain gangs that built public roads in the early 20th century.
Meeting rescheduled for Hammocks Beach history project
The town hall meeting rescheduled for 6-8 p.m. Sept. 14 in Swansboro will begin with an hourlong open house followed by a presentation on the Office of State Archaeology project to survey Hammocks Beach State Park.
Gullah Geechee-inspired art exhibit on display until Aug. 30
Part of the Victoria Smalls Gullah Geechee Art Collection “Da Wada Brought Us and Kept Us,” will be on display through Aug. 30 at the Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site
Oral histories hold key to recording environmental change
A rising junior at UNC Chapel Hill, Tara Hinton has spent her summer listening to oral histories and researching how Down East Carteret County residents are responding to changes in the environment.
National Aviation Day Aug. 19 at Wright Brothers Memorial
Enjoy free admission, ranger-led programs and an outdoor movie on National Aviation Day, Aug. 19 at Wright Brothers National Memorial.
The migrants in potato fields during the Great Depression
Historian David Cecelski discovers a chapter in eastern NC’s history about the migrant farm workers that harvested crops in the 1930s and ’40s while exploring Farm Security Administration photographs at the Library of Congress.
17 acres along Chowan River in Bertie County now protected
The 16.86-acre property known as Point Comfort that features 85- to 90-foot bluffs overlooking the Chowan River in Bertie County will be managed as a nature preserve.
