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History for Lunch: Searching for Shell Castle: Exploring Submerged Histories on the North Carolina Coast
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- When:
- August 5, 2026 · 12:00 PM
- Where:
- Museum of the Albemarle, NC
- Source:
- NC State Parks – Events
Anne Mitchell Whisnant, PhD, director of graduate liberal studies at Duke University, will introduce the history of Shell Castle Island. The island was a bustling site of homes and wharves from the 1780s to the 1810s. It served as a transfer point for cargo shipping in and out of coastal North Carolina through Ocracoke Inlet. North Carolina merchant John Gray Blount and Portsmouth pilot John Wallace owned and developed Shell Island, which was worked by dozens of African American people they ensl
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