Pamlico’s Past Resources
Contact Information
- • Ray Midgett
- • rlmidgett@gmail.com
- • 704-813-8197 (call or text)
Resources - Online (free)
- • Loy, Ursula Fogleman., and Pauline Marion. Worthy. Washington and the Pamlico. Washington-Beaufort County Bicentennial Commission, 1976. https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/17020 (click “Read Text” to search)
- • Ordinances of the town of Washington, North Carolina. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/13445
- • Reed, C. Wingate. Beaufort County: Two Centuries of Its History. 1962. https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/16840 (click “Read Text” to search)
- • Historic Port of Washington Project https://hpow.org/
- • DigitalNC https://lib.digitalnc.org/
- • ECU Digital Collections https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/
- • Internet Archive https://archive.org
- • North Carolina American Indian History Timeline https://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/american-indian/handouts/timeline
- • Really Ancient History of the Pamlico https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e9cc483e243847199a35531f78cac61d
- • Journal of a Tour to North Carolina by William Attmore, 1787 https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/attmore/attmore.html#n1
Resources - Online (free at Brown Library)
- • Newspaper Archive https://newspaperarchive.com
- • Ancestry https://ancestry.com
Resources - Online (for a fee)
- • Newspapers https://newspapers.com
Resources - Printed
- • Bridgers, Henry C., et al. Steamboats on the Tar. Ronald E. Kemp?, 2013.
- • Camp, Louis Van. Washington, North Carolina. Arcadia, 2000.
- • Camp, Louis Van. Washington and Beaufort County: Book Three. NCImage.com, 2003.
- • Rodgers, Bradley A., et al. The Castle Island Ships' Graveyard: the History and Archaeology of Eleven Wrecked and Abandoned Watercraft. Program in Maritime Studies, East Carolina University, 2006.
- • Morgan, John. A Pleasant Gale on My Lee: a Notable Era in the History of the Pamlico Area and Outer Banks. Chapel Hill Press, 2001.
- • Mallison, Fred M. The Civil War on the Outer Banks: a History of the Late Rebellion along the Coast of North Carolina from Carteret to Currituck, with Comments on Prewar Conditions and an Account of Postwar Recovery. McFarland & Co., 2005.
- • Martin, Louis W. Beaufort County Heroes, 1861-1865. L.W. Martin, Jr., 2003.
- • Sparrow, Joy W. Sparrows Nest of Letters. Scuppernong Press, 2011.
- • Keith, Alice Barnwell, et al. The John Gray Blount Papers. State Dept. of Archives and History, 1952.
Resources - Download (pdf)
- • Beaufort County and Washington, 1910.
- • Castle Island Ships.
- • Childhood Memories of Nellie Miles Paul.
- • Description of Washington from Norfolk, the Marine Metropolis of Virginia, 1888.
- • Early Customs of Washington.
- • Enemy Among Us, POWs in Washington During WWII.
- • Journal of Martha M. Fowle, Written During the Civil War.
- • Washington High School Yearbook Wahiscoan, 1918.
- • The Shipbuilding Industry in Washington, NC.
- • The North Carolina Yearbook and Business Directory, 1903.
- • Washington City Directory, 1916.
- • Washington City Directory, 1937.
- • Washington City Directory, 1948.
- • Washington City Directory, 1959.
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