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Jockey’s Ridge State Park & Carolista Baum | Outer Banks History | Carolina Designs
When a bulldozer showed up on August 15, 1973 ready to flatten the largest dune system on the East Coast and develop the land, Carolista Baum took a stand, quite literally. ||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/Carolista-Baum-Jockeys-Ridge-Marker.jpg
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The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum | Outer Banks Activities | Carolina Designs
Located just past the Ocracoke Ferry Terminal on Hatteras Island, the Graveyard of the Atlantic museum is a must-see part of the Outer Banks experience.||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/08/Graveyard-of-the-Atlantic-Museum.jpg
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The Wright Brothers Little Known Facts | Outer Banks History | Carolina Designs
There’s a lot to the story of the Wright Brothers. Some of it is well-known; some of it perhaps, not common knowledge.||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/07/Orville-and-Wilbur-Wright-Flying-Pilots-e1657648819993.jpg
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Island Farms in Manteo, NC | Outer Banks Activities | Carolina Designs
Today, Island Farm is managed by the Outer Banks Conservationists (OBC) and substantial effort has gone into recreating the look and feel of a working farm on Roanoke Island in the 1850s.||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/07/Restored-Adam-Etheridge-house-Island-Farms-Manteo.jpg
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William Tate and the Wright Brothers | Outer Banks History | Carolina Designs
Tate was more than the Wright Brothers’ friend—which he was. He was a very successful person in general. Postmaster, farmer, fisherman, Coast Guard, and political boss of Kitty Hawk.||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/06/William-Tate-and-Family.-Helper-of-the-Wright-Brothers-on-the-Outer-Banks.jpg
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The Monument to a Century of Flight | A Testimony to the Spirit of Perseverance and Creativity
The Monument to a Century of Flight is a remarkable testimony to the spirit of perseverance and creativity that has driven humanity’s exploration of the skies.||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/05/The-Monument-to-a-Century-of-Flight-Outer-Banks-Monuments.jpg
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Port Ferdinando and The Lost Colony | Outer Banks History | Carolina Designs
Roanoke voyages, 1585-1590, based operations at inlet near here. Long closed, it was named for pilot Simon Fernandes.||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/03/Port-Ferdinando-Historical-Marker-Nags-Head-Outer-Banks-e1648089106261.jpg
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The Revenue Cutter Mercury | Outer Banks Shipwrecks | Carolina Designs
The Revenue Cutter Mercury — The Little Ship That Could||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/03/Mercury_-_War_of_1812-2_400x267.jpg
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The Burnside Expedition | Outer Banks History | Carolina Designs
The Burnside Naval expedition to Roanoke Island. Sinking of the ships Pocahontas, Oriental, and City of New York along the way to the Outer Banks.||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/11/burnside-235×146.jpg
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Thomas Jarvis | Outer Banks History | Carolina Designs
Thomas Jarvis was born in 1836 in what is now Jarvisburg. The son of Elizabeth and Bannister Jarvis, a Methodist minister and farmer, the Jarvis family roots ran deep in North Carolina, the name appearing in official records as early as the 1690s.||https://pages.carolinadesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/10/jarvis-235×146.jpg