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The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958

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The Outer Banks have long been of interest to geologists, historians, linguists, sportsmen, and beachcombers. This long series of low, narrow, sandy islands stretches along the North Carolina coast for more than 175 miles. Here on Roanoke Island in the 1580s, the first English colony in the New World was established. It vanished soon after, becoming the famous "lost colony." At Ocracoke, in 1718, the pirate Blackbeard was killed; at Hatteras Inlet and Roanoke Island important Civil War battles were fought; at Kitty Hawk ...

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The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958 1990, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807842775

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