Contents
Story
Decoys
Credits
1960s photo represents the setting
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OWNERS
Louis Noe and other members
1933-1946
OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
Associations
LOCATION
Southern Core Banks, Cedar Banks
Story
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Cedar Banks Club
World War I and the Great Depression impacted the industrialists who had established the Core Banks Gun and Rod Club and the Pilentary Hunting Club. Roy Willis, of Stacy, has mentioned that changes in the local environment had also diminished the waterfowl available in this area. Hunt clubs changed hands as a result of these events.
“When Leroy Davis took the job, there were possibly as many as sixty members, most from up north. In 1933, a new corporation was formed and the club was renamed the Cedar Banks Club. The members were Louis Noe, Phillip Coffin, Charles Geiger, John Geiger, and Clifford MacEvoy, all from New Jersey. Leroy Davis was given one share. When Leroy left, only two members remained, brothers Charles and john /geiger. Many left after the storm of 1933.”
(from Jack Dudley’s Carteret Waterfowl Heritage)
Cedar Banks Club, Incorporated was registered in Morris County, New Jersey.
In 1946, the club was sold to a group of men from eastern N.C., particularly Kinston.
Decoys
According to Jackie Booth, the Core Banks Rod and Gun Club and the Cedar Banks Club apparently did not have dedicated and marked decoys but instead used the decoys provided by the guides, those obtained from local carvers, and those shipped in from the north before the season.
Richard Gillikin relates that, in the later days of plastic decoys, his grandfather Wardie Murphy would send him to the decoy shed to get a wheelbarrow of wooden decoys to start the morning fire. He declares that he is famous for burning “the most Mitchell Fulcher decoys than anybody”.
Credits
- Jack Dudley–Carteret Waterfowl Heritage
- Jackie Boothe–Beaufort
- Richard Gillikin–Harkers Island
- NPS archives and files
- Carteret County Register of Deeds office
- Other references within text