Author: cabinculturesobx
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First Hospital in North Carolina
The Portsmouth Marine Hospital was completed in 1847 following the 1842 Congressional appropriation of $8,500 to provide the two story structure. Though now deserted, Portsmouth Village was an important port and community with special issues needing solutions. This resulted in the island building the first structure in N.C. designed and dedicated to use as a hospital.…
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Rose Town–Tillman and Hettie Rose
“ I want to climb that hill one more time!”—he said to his son. Then Leslie Rose began stripping to his boxer shorts and climbed over the gunnels into the shallows near the shore at the Cape– and began wading ashore to ascend the hill that still sat, and sits, as a landmark of the site…
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Morton Davis–Reverence for the Banks Experience
“SEAGIRT”–“surrounded by the sea.” Origin of the camp–1945–as listed on insurance policy documents. The original camp burned in 1953 and was rebuilt alongside the site of the destroyed camp remains. SEAGIRT–(click red text to see more)– sat about 8 and a half miles north of the lighthouse and set back from the sound. It was…
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Beaufort–Gateway to the Outer Banks
The Beaufort Connection to the Southern Outer Banks “Beaufort is the Gateway to the Outer Banks.” –Glenn Adair told a News and Observer reporter in 1957. He added–But, to the discerning visitor, Beaufort is the end of the rainbow. Why go to the Outer Banks?” {{The Southern Outer Banks stretch from Ocracoke to Emerald Isle–this…
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The Pilentary Club
During the half-century story of the Pilentary Club on North Core Banks, it was the most grand and storied of clubs on the Southern Outer Banks. Initially built for Theodore Rogers (beginning in 1887) by the James Mason family, the Motts and finally, the Lassiter’s gathered here. Multiple generations of the Mason family served as…
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“Turtling”–Terrapin Dinners
Clay Fulcher told me more than once–If you want to tell the story of the Banks, you have to include the story of how the Diamondback Terrapin and other turtles impacted the locals. I now see he was right, as I suspected then. When I gather with other carvers at the Core Sound Decoy Carvers…
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“The Club House”–The Core Banks Club
Roy Eubanks made this mid-century photo–courtesy of Richard Gillikin When the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum selected “The Club House” for the year 2000 membership print by Lena Ennis, they acknowledged that it “represents generations of Core Sound waterfowling history”. There was, and is, a spiritual connection to famiy memories, individual life-stories, and century long community…
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Diamond City–A Homecoming
“He used to sit for hours in the sun and stare out over the sea, with a far-off look in his eyes—Like he saw eternity.” “And playing near his feet, a child followed his gaze ‘out there,’ And having a curious nature–moved closer to his chair.” “What do you see out there, Ole Pa? There’s…
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The Last (?) Loon Hunt
Interrupting one spiritual tie to the Banks tradition, and blocking one way to return “home” May, 1950 brought one more disconnect from Banks tradition to those with two and a half centuries of deep roots in that sandy soil. Displaced by the storms of the late 1800s, remaining cultural connections like loon hunting were one…
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Cemeteries and Graveyards–
Shackleford Banks and Southern Outer Banks Diamond City Methodist Church –Ben Riles Graveyard Bell’s Island Community Cemetery Sam Windsor/ ?Moore family cemetery–near Bill Moore camp Wade Shore Cemetery Lewis family cemetery–near Mullet Pond–not confirmed Graveyards (burial sites as part of church property) and Cemeteries (not as part of a church) south of the Portsmouth community…