By David Pendered Fort Macon State Park, NC – March 3 – An 1857 court ruling speaks to the value some slaveholders placed on enslaved people who were able to build the vessels needed deliver the region’s corn and wheat from farm to market in antebellum Eastern North Carolina. The ruling was cited in a […]
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Revealing history hidden by the seaBy David Pendered BEAUFORT, N.C. – March 3 – Exposing a previously concealed serial number of a typewriter is a big deal when the machine comes from the sunken wreckage of a German submarine sunk in World War II. Michelle Crepeau revealed the serial number in her work as a conservator at the North Carolina […]
