Shackleford Banks is an island that runs west to east off the coast of North Carolina. We refer to our islands as banks. Diamond City once occupied a portion of Shackleford Banks. A community that focused on fishing, whaling, salvaging and surviv

The romantic legend says a Spanish ship wrecked offshore of the Outer Banks and the horses swam to shore. We know many things about our banker ponies. What we don't know for sure is how they exactly arrived on our shores. One study investigat

Legend says the painters that painted the Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse were drunk at the time and painted the lighthouses incorrectly. The assumption was the diamond pattern should have been on the Cape Hatteras lighthous