. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. The abandoned communities of Shackleford Banks The Cape. Diamond City. Sam Windsor's Lump. Wade's Shore. Whale Creek. Guthrie's Hammock. Mullet Pond. The names of these communities ring with the sound of fiction and fantasy. But, in fact, they were once as real as Beaufort and Wilmington are today. These communities dotted the shores of Shackleford Banks before the turn of the century. And families with names like Lewis, Davis, Guthrie, Chadwick, Willis, Rose, Wade and Moore eked out an existence along the
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. The abandoned communities of Shackleford Banks The Cape. Diamond City. Sam Windsor's Lump. Wade's Shore. Whale Creek. Guthrie's Hammock. Mullet Pond. The names of these communities ring with the sound of fiction and fantasy. But, in fact, they were once as real as Beaufort and Wilmington are today. These communities dotted the shores of Shackleford Banks before the turn of the century. And families with names like Lewis, Davis, Guthrie, Chadwick, Willis, Rose, Wade and Moore eked out an existence along their shores, often battling the vagaries of the sea. But it was the sea that drew people to settle Shackleford's shores around 1700. Whales, which were common in the waters off Cape Lookout, attracted Shackleford's earliest settlers. But the bank's first to make their catch. They depended on beached whales for their livelihood, wrote John Lawson in his 1714 history of North Carolina. They used no boats or harpoons like their northern neighbors. But northern whalers soon ventured south to teach their counterparts a few whaling lessons. They lived in crude huts built between the dunes during whaling season. When a whale was sighted, they shoved off in their whaling boats, using harpoons to make the kill. Eventually some of these whalers decided to move their families to Shackleford. The Chadwick family along coastal North Carolina are descendents of a northern whaling family that moved south. On early maps of North Carolina, the whaling village at Shackleford was called Whaler's Hutts. It would be another century before the village would be named Diamond City. But Shackleford Banks may not have been pop- ulated entirely with whalers. Beaufort historian Grayden Paul says that North Carolina's most famous pirate, Edward Teach or Blackbeard as he was more commonly called, may have left some of his marauders on Shackleford Banks in 1718. Paul says that Teach left one boat in need of re
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