National Lighthouse Day honors the beacon of light that for hundreds of years symbolized safety and security for ships and boats at sea. It is observed annually on August 7.
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Rich Panter takes viewers around the Outer Banks of North Carolina; a part of a chain of barrier islands off North Carolina's coast. The locations featured in this segment are the Cape Hatteras...
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McClellanville’s story is one of survival. The communities’ resilience had been tested time and again with the impacts of several large storms: Hurricane Hugo, the hurricane of 1822, and the storm in...
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Marking the location where the suicidal charge at Battery Wagner took place, stands the Morris Island Lighthouse. Joanna angle discusses the history of this old, historic lighthouse.
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Shipping traffic moving in and out of the harbors along the Carolina coast depended upon a series of lighthouses to guide them through sometimes narrow and treacherous channels in the complicated...
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“R” is for Robert, Henry Martyn [1837-1923]. Engineer, author. Born in South Carolina, Robert’s family moved to Ohio in 1851. After graduating from West Point in 1857, he began a forty-four year...
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Located in Beaufort County, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built Hunting Island State Park in 1938. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had established the CCC, a federally funded...
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Visit Hunting Island State Park and discover how one of the last remaining lighthouses was moved.
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Captain Sandy of Georgetown recalls his paranormal encounter with the ghost of Annie, a benevolent spirit who warns sailors off the coast of Georgetown of an oncoming storm. Seeing her is a sign to...
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Al Hitchcock talks about the history and preservation efforts of the Morris Island lighthouse.