Where
the cold
waters of the Labrador current meet the clear
warm Gulf Stream waters, lies a place called the Southern
Outer Banks, or "SOBX" as the tourists call it.
For as long as men have sailed the seas, they have found
their way to the beautiful barrier Islands of North
Carolina. The original inhabitants of this coastal
region were the Croatan, a small branch of the Algonquian-speaking
Native American tribe of
the Roanoke.
In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh landed on Roanoke
Island, North Carolina with a small group of English
settlers, intending to establish a colony on the Outer Banks of North
Caroliina. North Carolina's Outer Banks has a rich
diversity of floura and fauna, and a sub-tropical client that made the
beautiful Southern Outer banks seem like a paradise, a place to settle
and thrive. Most crops flourished in the sandy loam soil,
fresh water was plentiful, the forests teemed with game, and the sea
provided a bountiful harvest. However, dealings with the
native inhabitants soon went sour and led to
conflict not only between the Natives and Englishmen, but wars
among the tribes broke out as well. In 1587, the first
English child was born in America. Her name was Virginia
Dare.
John White departed back to England for supplies late in 1587, but
while there, England's impending war with
Spain broke out and White was not able to return to his beloved Roanoke
colony until 1590. When White finally returned, the
colony had vanished. No trace of the colony or it's 125
inhabitants was ever found except the word "Croatoan" carved
on a nearby post. Nevertheless, America was born here, on a
little strip of sand barely two miles wide and
ten miles long.
Today The Southern Outer Banks, or "Crystal
Coast" as some call it. consists of the towns and small
communities stretched along eighty-five miles of coastline between Cape
Lookout, North Carolina and New River, North Caroliina. Some
of the better know towns along the Southern Outer Banks are Morehead City,
Beaufort,
Harker's
Island, Salter
Path, Swansboro,
Emerald Isle,
Atlantic Beach,
and Pine Knoll Shores,
each with it's own uniquness and local charm. Southern
Outer Banks News, Inc reports on activities in and around the
Southern Outer Banks of North Carolina. We are not a
traditional news media. We have no sponsors, no lobbyists, no
billionaire donors, and no government censorship. Southern
Outer Banks News, Inc. is the free press
that our forefathers envisioned in 1789 when they penned the First
Amendment to the United States Constitution. Our news is
opinionated and will be offensive to some, it will rub some people the
wrong way, but it will always be honest and truthful with no sugar
coated spin.
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