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Other North Carolina counties and towns 975.61 to 975.69: 120 titles as they stand on the shelf at OCPL, in call-number order. North Carolina history bookshelf, E-1: North Carolina histories of every kind, from the university and the State Fair to the state’s natural history and Durham’s Hayti.

• Legends of the Dunes of Dare Albertson, Catherine · 1936

  Catherine Albertson's booklet of legends from the sand dunes of Dare County on the Outer Banks. One gives the traditional version of how Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr and wife of South Carolina governor Joseph Alston, met her end after the schooner Patriot vanished at the start of 1813. This second edition was printed in Raleigh in 1936; 25 pages with four pages of plates.

  Call number NC 975.61 ALB View in OCPL catalog →
• NC 12 Gateway To The Outer Banks Carr, Dawson · 2016

  North Carolina Highway 12, the road and ferry route that ties together the islands and peninsulas of the Outer Banks, and the tourism that grew along it over the past half century are the subject of Dawson Carr's history. He begins with the shifting sands and hard travel of earlier days and ends with a drive down the highway. University of North Carolina Press, 2016; 169 pages with illustrations.

  Call number 975.61 CARR View in OCPL catalog →
• A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 McIlvenna, Noeleen · 2009

  Noeleen McIlvenna's history of North Carolina's first decades, 1660 to 1713, centered on the small farmers of the Albemarle, their ideas of equality and their conflicts with landowners and the Anglican church. Part one follows the first generation from its escape into the swamp through Culpeper's Rebellion and the rise and fall of Seth Sothell; part two covers church establishment, Native American resistance and Cary's Rebellion. UNC Press, 2009; maps.

  Call number NC 975.61 MCILVENN View in OCPL catalog →
• Three Decades of Devotion: The Story of the Tryon Palace Commission and the Tryon Palace Restoration Robinson, Blackwell P. · 1978

  Blackwell P. Robinson tells the story of the Tryon Palace Commission, from its creation by the General Assembly in 1945 to 1975, and of its restoration of the colonial governors' palace at New Bern, which had burned in 1798; the rebuilt palace opened to the public in 1959. Published by the commission in New Bern in 1978, 371 pages with illustrations and references.

  Call number NC 975.61 ROB View in OCPL catalog →
• Edenton: A Portrait in Words and Pictures Matheson, Elizabeth · 1984

  Elizabeth Matheson's photographs of Edenton, the Chowan County seat on Albemarle Sound that served as the colonial capital from 1722 to 1743, paired with text about the town and published by the Edenton Historical Commission about 1984. The 61 oblong pages are mostly pictures, with a list of references.

  Call number NC 975.614 EDE View in OCPL catalog →
• Hertford County, North Carolina Jones, Alice Eley · 2002

  Hertford County's African American history in photographs and portraits, assembled by the North Carolina historian Alice Eley Jones for Arcadia's Black America series in 2002. The 128 pages open in 1726, when the Meherrin people moved south from Virginia to a former reservation at the mouth of the Meherrin River.

  Call number NC 975.615 JONES View in OCPL catalog →
• The Ancient Maritime Village of Murfreesborough, 1787-1825 Parramore, Thomas C. · 1969

  Murfreesboro, chartered in 1787 on high ground above the Meherrin River in Hertford County, was the head of navigation on that river and a port of entry trading with New England and the West Indies. Thomas C. Parramore's history covers the town from its founding to 1825. Printed in Murfreesboro by the Johnson Publishing Company in 1969, 96 pages with maps, illustrations and portraits.

  Call number NC 975.615 PAR View in OCPL catalog →
• Chowan Beach: Remembering An African American Resort Stephenson, E. Frank · 2006

  Frank Stephenson recalls the resort for African Americans that Eli Reid built on the Chowan River in Hertford County after buying 400 acres in 1928. Its beach, cottages, dance hall and carousel drew Black visitors from across the state and the East Coast, and touring stars including B.B. King and James Brown played there. Mostly photographs, it covers the Reid years, herring fishing and the Sam Pillmon years, 1967 to 2004.

  Call number NC 975.615 STE View in OCPL catalog →
• Roanoke Island in History and Legend Albertson, Catherine · 1934

  Roanoke Island, where Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists landed in the 1580s, is the subject of Catherine Albertson's short account of its history and legends, 28 pages with seven pages of plates, printed by the Independent Press of Elizabeth City in 1934.

  Call number NC 975.617 ALB View in OCPL catalog →
• The Lost Colony in Literature Arner, Robert D. · 1985

  Robert D. Arner's study of the Roanoke colony of 1587 and Virginia Dare as subjects of American literature, one of the booklets published by North Carolina's America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee; 1985, 55 pages with illustrations.

  Call number NC 975.617 ARN View in OCPL catalog →
• Aycock Brown's Outer Banks 1976

  An illustrated book on Aycock Brown and the people of Dare County and the Outer Banks, edited by the Outer Banks historian David Stick and designed by Robert Cameron. Donning of Norfolk published the 206 pages in 1976.

  Call number NC 975.617 AYC View in OCPL catalog →
• The Outer Banks: An Historical Adventure From Kitty Hawk to Ocracoke Conway, Martin · 1984

  A short illustrated history of the Outer Banks from Kitty Hawk south to Ocracoke by Martin Conway, written to double as a guide for visitors. Susan Knott edited and designed it. Carabelle Books of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, issued it as a special edition in 1984: 87 pages with a map, a bibliography and an index. It was reissued in 1985.

  Call number NC 975.617 CON View in OCPL catalog →