. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Second Creek, a small community of loggers, farmers and shinglemakers in Tyrrell County, then moved with his family to Alligator Creek in 1901. He spent his childhood in the woods hunting, fishing, bullfrogging and doing, in his words, "a thousand things a boy could ; By the age of 12, Basnight was helping his daddy in the log woods and on their one-mule farm. At 21, he worked for a commercial fisher and lived at a fish camp on Charles Island at the mouth of Alligator Creek. "We did not d
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Second Creek, a small community of loggers, farmers and shinglemakers in Tyrrell County, then moved with his family to Alligator Creek in 1901. He spent his childhood in the woods hunting, fishing, bullfrogging and doing, in his words, "a thousand things a boy could ; By the age of 12, Basnight was helping his daddy in the log woods and on their one-mule farm. At 21, he worked for a commercial fisher and lived at a fish camp on Charles Island at the mouth of Alligator Creek. "We did not do too well," Basnight confesses," but we paid for our nets and eat beans regular and had lots of fun doing ; After his daddy died of typhoid fever in 1919 and the cotton market crashed the next year, he gave up farming. Like many other Dare County residents, Basnight had few choices but to find a mill job. In September 1922, he writes, "I put out for Buffalo ; So did I. On my first day in the Great Alligator, I paddled down Mill Tail Creek to the old site of Buffalo City. A swamp forest of cypress, pond pine, sweet gum and maple had replaced the village. The only relics that I could find were a few railroad tracks and a beat-up concrete wall, part of the old pulp mill. I had to rely on Basnight's memoir to bring the deserted swamp back to life. Buffalo City thrived many years before Basnight's arrival. In the 1880s, a New York timber company called Buffalo City Mills located the sawmill village in the swamps about 19 miles west of Manteo. Local laborers and, according to oral tradition, more than 200 Ukrainian immigrants from New York raised the town on the north bank of Mill Tail Creek. In such swampy land, they had to build streets by laying planks and covering them with a thick layer of sawdust. In 1907, the Dare Lumber Com- pany bought the mill village. The. Possibly the Sanderlin store outside Buffalo company owned Buffalo City's house
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