The Outer Banks 2009 Official Travel Guide - (Page 18) OUTER BANKS GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC For four centuries, the allure of the Outer Banks has bewitched mankind with the temptation of treasures on the high seas and the promise of new life in an untamed land. Men lost their heads, brothers fought one another, and the oppressed found freedom on our shores. From the first attempted settlement in a new land, the battles of the Civil War and World War I & II, Dare County’s 100 miles of coastland is ripe with history for you to explore. Discover an Outer Banks heritage rich with pioneers, unruly heroes and charismatic foes. Follow the map and travel back in time. HISTORICAL POINTS OF INTEREST 1. Kill Devil Hills-named after the foul tasting rum that washed ashore after shipwrecks, which locals said “would kill the devil” 2. Nags Head- named after the practice of tying a lantern to a horse (nag) and walking the beach, thus luring ships into shore for plundering 3. Freedman’s Colony, a safe haven for runaway slaves during the Civil War and Fort Raleigh, site of the first attempted English settlement 4. Naval Battle of Roanoke Island / Civil War 5. U.S.S. Monitor replica (a 1/3 scale) at the NC Aquarium 6. Gateway to the Albemarle/William B. Umstead Bridge 7. Roanoke Island Festival Park and Outer Banks History Center 8. Site of the Battle of Roanoke Island, located in the village of Wanchese / Civil War 9. Burnside Expedition and Outer Banks Welcome Center on Roanoke Island 10. Bodie Island Lighthouse 11. 1st Naval Engagement of the Civil War-the sinking of the Oriental 12. Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station and Chicamacomico Races site 13. Capture of the Fanny and Salvo Day Use Area 14. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse 15. Diamond Shoals-collection of shifting sandbars that sank many ships, earning the Outer Banks the nickname “Graveyard of the Atlantic” 16. Wreck of the U.S.S. Monitor 17. 1st Provisional Government and U.S.S. Monitor Memorial site 18. 1st Amphibious Assault and Civil War Veterans Roster site 19. Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum Forts Hatteras and Clark and Burnside Expedition site 20. British Cemetery commemorates the lost sailors of the HMS Bedfordshire, torpedoed off the coast May 11, 1942 21. In the waters surrounding Ocracoke Island, Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) was beheaded in 1718 18
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