“Dare County in the 1930s,” a special photo exhibit, opened on March 1st at the Outer Banks History Center. The exhibit will remain up through October 15th. If your travel plans during that time take you to Manteo, it is worth checking out!
The exhibit got me thinking about some of the interesting images we have of Dare County’s libraries and bookmobiles from the 1950s and 1960s. You may view them all in the NC Digital Collections. We also have them, along with other old library images, on HistoryPin!
Do you have family or ancestors who lived in Dare County? The NC Family Records Online collection has several sets of bible records and a cemetery survey that include individuals who lived in Dare County.
If all of these resources have you wanting to learn at bit more about Dare County, NCpedia has several articles about places in Dare County and people who lived in Dare County. The article about Dare County from the University of North Carolina Press’s Encyclopedia of North Carolina may be found at http://ncpedia.org/geography/dare. Included in the entry is a slideshow of images from Flickr users that people have contributed. If you have digital images of Dare County, or any of North Carolina’s 100 counties, to share with NCpedia, instructions on how to contribute them may be found at http://ncpedia.org/contribute#photos.
A new Pinterest board illustrates some of the resources and articles mentioned above! It’s at http://pinterest.com/ncghl/dare-county-nc-yesterday-and-today/.
In a series of posts over the next month our intern, Carla Sarratt will be highlighting the various vendors and activities that will be part of the Government and Heritage Library’s Family History Fair (a 2nd Saturdays program)
