South Core Banks–working the water
Clubs and Lodges- –one part of the story— local watermen working as guides and caretakers for clubs established by Northern Industrialists and out-of -county individuals as get-a-way settings for hunting and fishing Core Banks Club–Carteret…
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Fishing at the Cape
Cape Lookout Bight has always been home to fishing through all of documented history. Menhaden, Mullet, Shad, Turtles, Bottlenose Dolphin, and many other fish varieties were harvested. “Core Banks estimated 7,000 years old”–researchers Dr. Duncan…
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Fishing in Back Sound and along Shackleford Banks
“….because of the closeness to the sea, this has been a town where water, fishing and shipbuilding influenced the people and architecture of the town…Fishing was the town’s and also the county’s chief economy.. In…
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Coast Guard Reunion–2026
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum hosted this reunion of Coast Guardsmen as part of the museum mission for the preservation and the sharing of the story of Core Banks and the Downeast cultural history. Over…
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Fishing on Core Banks
We are blessed by our community connection to the sea and sound. Efforts to protect this resource and, at the same time, sustainably protect the efforts of local fishermen has been ongoing for a long…
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Cape Lookout Lighthouse–1859
A Spiritual Touchstone for the culture of the Banks and Downeast– Curt and Martha Salter, most every evening, would drive down to Shell Point at sunset to look across Barden’s Inlet to the touchstone of…
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WORLD WAR II AND THE BANKS
Kept from the national public for fear of anxiety and panic, the locals–the Bankers–knew, and they did something about it…. Core Bankers and coastal citizens brought their knowledge and experience to the war effort. The…
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Core Banks has a Story to Tell us
Being a fellow “from off”, please allow me latitude as I relate the story the Banks and the C’ae bankers have been telling me. This is just a taste of the story I have accumulated…
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U.S. Coast Guard’s First Rescue
Coast Guard Stations and their preceding Life-Saving Stations along the Banks were central to community life there. Stations at Portsmouth Vilage, Station Atlantic #189 (northern tip of South Core Banks), and Cape Lookout contributed greatly…
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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…
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