Joining the night-watch of the chief light-keeper, I also joined in the good man's enthusiasm for his wonderful "fixed white light", the bright beams of which poured out upon the surrounding waters a flood of brilliancy, gladdening hearts far out . . . — — Map (db m190961) HM
Bodie Island Light Station
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m47028) HM
Nearby dangerous shifting nearshore sandbars caused hundreds of shipwrecks. Congress commissioned a lighthouse to be built to aid mariners in navigating this "Graveyard of the Atlantic".
Standing before you is the third lighthouse built in this . . . — — Map (db m176001) HM
(Panel 1)
Francis & Gertrude Rogallo
Inventors of the Flexible Wing
(caption) Francis & Gertrude Rogallo invent the flexible wing
1948 • 1949 February
(Panel 2)
Francis Rogallo was born in . . . — — Map (db m214622) HM
NC State Record
805.5 lbs.
Caught March 12, 2011,
aboard the "Sea Breeze"
40 mi. SE of Oregon Inlet
Angler: Corey Schultz
Capt: Ned Ashby
Mate: George Cecil
Mounted by: Gray Taxidermy — — Map (db m76735) HM
