The Friends of the Outer Banks History Center, in collaboration with the College of the Albemarle Dare Campus and Downtown Books of Manteo, will host award winning author Kip Tabb on Thursday ...

Park fees are waived Dec. 17 at National Memorial when the National Park Service and supporting organizations celebrate the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright on the 122nd anniversary of ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – From the first English Colony in America, to our nation’s first all-African American life saving station, the museums share a special respect for the maritime history that ...

Voluntourism: Protecting What We Love, Together In 2025, the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau considerably expanded its ...

Wild horses far outnumbered humans on the Outer Banks a century ago. But beyond legends of long-ago Spanish shipwrecks, no one really knows how they got there. A 1926 article in the National ...

The North Carolina structure was featured in a magazine 163 years ago. Screengrab from the Outer Banks History Center on Facebook A hotel was North Carolina’s first “safe haven” for enslaved people ...

An piece of Outer Banks history — the so-called “Frisco UFO” house — was destroyed in a fire, according an Oct. 20 Facebook post by the Frisco Fire Department. Frisco Fire Department photo An piece of ...