Ocracoke History

Editor’s note: the misspellings inside the quotes are from the original sources. By David Mickey Drive up the beach from Ocracoke Village and just before reaching...

By Connie Leinbach Irvin Garrish would have been amazed to see his name pop up on GPS for the major thoroughfare through Ocracoke named after...

This is a repost from April 3, 2016 about this weekend. Families and friends of Portsmouth Island will gather April 30 for the biennial homecoming...

By Pat Garber Raymond Garrish had a dream of carving beautiful roses. He died in 1999, only 44 years old, of a heart attack, and never...

Editor's note: Pat Garber spent many hours in 2014 interviewing Eleanor and wrote a three-part series published in the Observer in 2014 on her extraordinary life that you can...

Editor's note: Lifelong Ocracoke resident Elizabeth Parsons died Saturday morning. Lou Ann Homan granted us permission to reprint her article about originally published in KPC...

By Connie Leinbach Ocracoke once had a “Godmother.” That was Blanche O’Neal Styron, mother of David Styron Jr., and kin to others on the island, including...

By Connie Leinbach Judith Garrish was thrilled to see her childhood home restored to new glory during the Ocracoke Preservation Society’s historic home open house...

The wrangling over Hatteras Inlet goes as far back as 1859 as this portion of an old article we found demonstrates. The following is a...

The Ocracoke Preservation Society fall membership meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10 in the Deepwater Theater, not Nov. 9 as was...