Hand-Crafted Boats of Old Currituck
Hand-Crafted Boats of Old Currituck

Author: Travis Morris

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1625851758

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Before sleek factory boats dominated Currituck Sound, locals piloted these waters in hulls made by hand. Some still can be seen today--beautiful works of art designed for the utility of travel, fishing, hunting, scouting and touring. They figure prominently in recollections of a bygone sportsman's paradise, and native storyteller Travis Morris offers this engaging collection based on anecdotes, interviews and detailed craft descriptions. It's an insider's history of Currituck's boating heritage featuring the famed Whalehead Club, an accidental run-in with the Environmental Protection Agency and a harrowing U.S. Coast Guard rescue.

Boats of Currituck: An Analysis of Six Watercraft from the Whalehead Trust Preservation Trust Collection
Boats of Currituck: An Analysis of Six Watercraft from the Whalehead Trust Preservation Trust Collection

Author: Nathan Richards

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-11

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1365446085

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In the fall of 2013 and the summer of 2014, graduate students from East Carolina University's Program in Maritime Students, in collaboration with the UNC-Coastal Studies Institute, carried out a project recording six watercraft from a collection of historical small watercraft collected and maintained by the Whalehead Preservation Trust in Currituck County, North Carolina. This volume contains six chapters that serve as the technical reports concerning these six vessels. Each chapter reports the process of recording the boats and their histories and also engages in interpretation and analysis of the form, function, and methods of construction. This publication intends to communicate the results of maritime-focused historic preservation activities concerning a small part of Currituck County's legacy of boat-building

Untold Stories of Old Currituck Duck Clubs
Untold Stories of Old Currituck Duck Clubs

Author: Travis Morris

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-04-16

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1614232571

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In this fourth installment of stories about the tradition of duck hunting on Currituck Sound, local resident Travis Morris delves into the history of the Currituck, Pine Island and Narrows Island private hunting clubs. These fascinating untold stories of the clubs weave together documents from old files with a variety of firsthand interviews and accounts. From stories of the clubs' prestigious members and guests--such as J.P. Morgan and William Vanderbilt--to tales from local guides of some of the old float box rigs, fans of Morris's Currituck books won't be disappointed by this latest volume, and first-time readers will find themselves transported out to the marshland, drifting along to the sound of duck calls.

Currituck County
Currituck County

Author: A. Burgess Jennings

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738592757

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Currituck County, established in 1668, is the oldest and most northeastern county in the state of North Carolina. It is thought that the name "Currituck" was derived from a Native American word for "wild goose." The county covers 273 square miles of long peninsula that runs north and south along the western shore of the Currituck Sound, which, until the early 1800s, was open to the transatlantic shipping trade. In Currituck County, photographs from the 1860s through the 1960s capture the county during the Civil War, Reconstruction, World Wars I and II, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and technological advances of the 1950s. With the opening of the new Wright Memorial Bridge, dedicated on November 5, 1966, an ever-increasing flood of vacationers traveled through Currituck County to the Outer Banks, and local businesses evolved to accommodate these thousands, and later, millions of visitors. The images seen here show a way of life in Currituck County before the development of tourism.

The National Hand-Book of Facts and Figures
The National Hand-Book of Facts and Figures

Author: Charles Scribner

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-03-11

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 3382131803

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.