ASHEVILLE — A cannon ball, window glass and gold dust from the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), will be on exhibit at the Cultural Resources Western Office from May 31 to July 13. State and local officials will attend the May 31 ribbon cutting before the public opening on June 1. It [...]
January 17, 2013 – 3:41 pm
KURE BEACH — The pivotal role of Fort Fisher in the Civil War is underscored in the movie Lincoln, as the president emphasized that it must be captured. Fort Fisher State Historic Site will demonstrate some of the power of the fort in the 148th anniversary program “Sheppard’s Battery: Confederates Defending the Left Flank” on Saturday, [...]
January 11, 2013 – 4:00 pm
RALEIGH — In conjunction with the observation of the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Fisher on Jan. 19, a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated for the Confederate blockade runner, Modern Greece at 12:30 p.m. at the Fort Fisher Visitor Center. The vital importance of Fort Fisher to the Confederate cause [...]
September 25, 2012 – 5:00 pm
RALEIGH–The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources announces the hiring of John W. Morris III as deputy state archaeologist and head of the state’s Underwater Archaeology Branch at Kure Beach. Morris is a nautical archaeologist with more than 25 years of field experience. His undergraduate studies were at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he was graduated with [...]
August 14, 2012 – 11:02 am
RALEIGH – Lake Waccamaw State Park will dedicate a new exhibit Aug. 24 created to display a rare, 2.75 million-year-old whale fossil discovered in the park’s bay lake in 2008. The public is invited to the 1 p.m. ceremony in the park’s visitor center. The fossil, which was pulled from a limestone outcropping in the [...]
WINNABOW– At the first of three summertime 2nd Saturday programs on June 9, Dr. Stanley South will “dig-up” memories of his site excavations from 1958-1968. Archaeologists Linda Carnes-McNaughton and Thomas E. Beamon also will discuss and examine pottery past and present. The program will be from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dr. South will speak from 10 [...]
January 13, 2012 – 3:13 pm
WINNABOW – Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site will present a Civil War archaeological program in February. Look to the Earth: An Archaeological Forum Feb. 6, 7-9 p.m. The forum will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church, Southport. Featured speakers for the free program are Asst. State Archaeologist John Mintz, Deputy State Archaeologist and [...]
In honor of the “Pirate’s!” musical program planned by the North Carolina Symphony at Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary, N.C., Saturday, July 9, at 7:30 p.m., the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources will have artifacts on display from Blackbeard’s shipwreck “Queen Anne’s Revenge.” Dr. Jeffrey J. Crow, Deputy Secretary of Cultural Resources, along [...]
January 4, 2011 – 10:44 am
RALEIGH – A case exhibit of small artifacts from the wreck of what is believed to be Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, will be on display at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh from Jan. 7 through 30. The QAR (www.qaronline.org) ran aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718, and the N.C. Department of [...]
RALEIGH – In 1956, archaeologist Stan South conducted the first archaeological investigations at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site and established his credentials as a pioneer in the field. His newly published title, “Archaeology at Colonial Brunswick,” now is available from the Historical Publications Section of the Office of Archives and History in the N.C. [...]
HATTERAS, N.C. – A nearly 400-year-old shipwreck reached its final home at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras early Tuesday morning. The wreckage was first uncovered in early 2008 by storms and tides in Corolla. North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources archeologists believe it could be the oldest shipwreck found to date in [...]
Letter to the Editor: In light of the interest shown in the disposition of the purported remains of Edward Salter Sr., I would like to provide further information. First, the Department of Cultural Resources through its Office of State Archaeology has been a good steward of the remains since their discovery in 1986. The discovery [...]
COROLLA, N.C. – One of North Carolina’s oldest shipwrecks will soon get a final home at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras. The wreckage was hidden under sand and water on the shore of Corolla for centuries. But winds and tides slowly uncovered the shipwreck over the course of a year. Earlier this [...]
August 11, 2009 – 8:26 am
RALEIGH – In a place called Xuala, Joara, Cuena, and now Morganton, the 16th century Spanish explorer Capt. Juan Pardo and his men constructed a fort. Garrisoned with 30 soldiers and called Fort San Juan, it was the largest of several fortifications Pardo constructed. Within two years all were destroyed. The memory of Fort San [...]
MT. GILEAD — Recent archaeological excavations at Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site have uncovered evidence that man lived at the site as far back as 13,000 years ago, some 3,000 years earlier than previously thought. Digs conducted June 22-26 uncovered a spear point thought to be the oldest artifact ever found at Town [...]