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Freedom Trail (Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, NC)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Civil War, Easy Hikes, North Carolina, Outer BanksLeave a comment

- Civil War Series - In the early stages of the Civil War in 1862, Union forces quickly seized the Outer Banks of North Carolina during the so-called Burnside Expedition, which led to the creation of a Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island, a safe haven for hundreds of runaway slaves in the region. While the …

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Thomas Hariot Trail (Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, NC)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Easy Hikes, North Carolina, Outer Banks1 Comment

Now a bustling tourist site on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Roanoke Island was the site of the first English settlement in the New World, established in 1585. For one of the expeditions to the island, English explorers brought along Thomas Hariot, a talented scientist and mathematician tasked with studying and cataloguing the natural resources of …

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