Currituck County / A. Burgess Jennings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jennings, A. Burgess., Author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic buildings--North Carolina--Currituck County--Pictorial works.

Historic buildings.

Currituck County (N.C.)--Biography--Pictorial works.

Currituck County (N.C.).

Currituck County (N.C.)--History--Pictorial works.

Currituck County (N.C.)--History, Local--Pictorial works.

Currituck County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2012]

Summary:

Currituck County, established in 1668, is the oldest and most northeastern county in the state of North Carolina. It is thought that the name "Currituck" was derived from a Native American word for "wild goose." The county covers 273 square miles of long peninsula that runs north and south along the western shore of the Currituck Sound, which, until the early 1800s, was open to the transatlantic shipping trade. In Currituck County, photographs from the 1860s through the 1960s capture the county during the Civil War, Reconstruction, World Wars I and II, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and technological advances of the 1950s. With the opening of the new Wright Memorial Bridge, dedicated on November 5, 1966, an ever-increasing flood of vacationers traveled through Currituck County to the Outer Banks, and local businesses evolved to accommodate these thousands, and later, millions of visitors. The images seen here show a way of life in Currituck County before the development of tourism.

Contents:

Here, there, and yonder

Takes all kinds

Walk of faith

Growing and learning

What was that?

All in a day's work

How many got away?

Over to the island

Currituck entertains.

OCLC:

885207633