Beaufort, North Carolina History

Histories and Images from the Past - Compiled by Artist and Researcher Mary Warshaw

1947 Etching

Davis House

Small Etching by Louis Orr (1879-1961)
circa 1947

Gift from Mariam Cannon Hayes
Permanent Exhibition of the
Blowing Rock Art and History Museum
Blowing Rock, North Carolina

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This site has been compiled by artist, historian and researcher Mary Warshaw. If you have additional histories, corrections, old Beaufort photos not included on this site or family photos, please send them to Mary. This site is ongoing...as discovered and documented more accurately, more will be added.

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For EASIER NAVIGATION, posts BELOW are now divided into categories.

Beaufort History Album

...a sample of images from this site

Summer Field Study 2011

Ann Wade House
Caleb Bell House
James Davis House 1829
Jesse Piver House
Joseph King House
Mace House
Manney House
Nelson House
Owins-Bedford House
Paquinet House
Ward-Hancock House

Early History

Beaufort - 1713
Beaufort - Name
French Connections
French Huguenots
Indians
John Lawson - Death
John Lawson - Excerpts
NC's Five Oldest Towns
Queen Anne
Seal of Albemarle
Spanish Visitor - 1783

General History Overviews

18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
African-Americans
Battle of Beaufort 1782
Colonial Beaufort - Charles Paul
Coree & Tuscarora War
Drummonds Atlas 1924
Green's 1707 Grant
Historic District
Incorporated 1723
Named and Laid Out 1713
Nathaniel Taylor owner 1725-33
Pre-Revolution
Queen Anne's Revenge
Revolutionary War
Richard Rustull owner 1720-25

Historic Homes

Architectural Treasure - Tony P. Wrenn
Buckman House
Carteret County Home
Chadwick House
Davis House Hotel
Davis House Survival
Davis, James 1817 House
Davis, James 1829 House
Duncan House & Family History
Duncan House & Ft. Macon
Duncan House - Blades & Babe Ruth
Duncan House - Significance
Franklin Masonic Lodge - Hugh Jones House
Front Street Houses
Gabriel House
Hammock House
Hatsell-Clawson House
Henry, Jacob House
Ireland House
Jones, Paul House
Manney, Dr. James House
Norcom House
Rustull, Richard Jr. House
Ward-Hancock House
Wheatley House

Old Maps

Sauthier Map 1770
Morehead City 1857
Gray's Map 1882
Beaufort Harbor 1854
Beaufort 1857

Buildings & Places

Ann Street Methodist - History
Ann Street Methodist Memorabilia
Apothecary
Atlantic Hotel
Bear & Huggins Islands
Bogue Banks Lighthouse
Cape Lookout Lighthouse
Clawson's Grocery
Confederate Monument
Courthouses
Hammond Hospital and Old Cemetery
Norcom House & Old Inlet Inn
Octagon House - Beaufort Connection
Post Office 1937
Purvis Chapel
St. Paul's Episcopal
St. Paul's School

People & Families

Biddle, Charles
Burns, Otway
Chadwick the Whaler & Family
Chadwick, Robt. & Charlie Soong
Cooke Family
Davis, James - Builder of Beaufort Houses
Davis, William Family
Gooding, Capt. Matthew
Graves, Richard
Green, Farnifold
Green, Farnifold - Descendants
Hancock, Sterling Price
Hatsell Family
Hatsell, Charlie
Leecraft, Benjamin & Descendants
Leffers, Samuel
Manney-French Love Story
Morton, Annie
Oaksmith, Appleton
Paquinet, Michael
Pigot, Emiline
Piver Family
Taylor, Wiley Sr. & Post Office
Willis, Capt' Jack
Yeatman, Georgina

Boats & Ships

Crissie Wright
Crissie Wright - Model
Crissie Wright Remembered
Crissie Wright Wreckage
Mail Boats
Maritime History
Periauger
Queen Anne's Revenge
Spirit of Roanoke
USS Monitor
USS Pevensey

Old Photos

Ann Street
Archives & History Photos
B.L. Perry House
Bordon Skiff
Buckman House Window
Burying Ground - Wrenn Photo
Duncan, Davises and Mansons
Football Team - 1930
Garbacon Plantation
Johnston - 1936 Beaufort
New Inlet Inn 1917
Old POSTCARDS
Reserve Cutter
St. Paul's Cemetery - 2008 Snow
Whaling

Fort Macon

Christmas 1862
Jeannie Coues
Civil War Graphics
Clapper Rail Nest
Johnston Photos

Articles

Atlantic Beach-Early Days
Beaufort Plaque
Beaufort Woman's Club
Blackbeard Painting
Bogue Banks and Borden
Carteret Coat of Arms
Early Fire Department
Mail
Origins of the Marine Lab
Outer Banks Windmills
Pirate Stede Bonnet
Post Office Murals
Rachel Carson Horses - Source of
Roosevelt on Outer Banks
Rowing to the Lab from Willis' Pier
Salt Works
Spanish Intrusions - 1747 - 1960-61 Reenactments
Town Marsh - Dredge-spoil Island
Train
Visitors to Beaufort - 1865
Whale Story

Special Pages

Home
Biddle’s Time in Beaufort 1778-80
Jacob Henry House circa 1800
Davis-Duncan House & Family
Builder James Davis 1780-1861
Founding of BHA
Fort Macon Remembers
Beaufort's African-American History
1752 Calendar Change

First Post 2006

Past, Present & Future

MORE Beaufort History - A separate site

POSTS:

James Davis - Builder of Beaufort Houses
Rumley Diary 1862
Post Civil War Visitors to Beaufort
Ward-Hancock House
Two William Bordens
Two Weeks During Revolution
QAR and Blackbeard
Wreckage Could Be Crissie Wright
Queen Anne's Revenge

SPECIAL PAGES:

Early 18th Century Farnifold Green Homestead
The Story of North Carolina's Maritime Museum
Col. Joseph Bell of Carteret County
Fuller Family - Beaufort NC
Postmasters
How Gallant's Point and Gallant's Channel Got Their Names
Beaufort During the Revolution
Carteret County during the Revolutionary Period

PORCHSCAPES -The Colors of Beaufort, North Carolina

Three Centuries of History Woven Through Art and Words - CLICK IMAGE

Charles L. Paul's thesis, Colonial Beaufort: The History of a North Carolina Town, is now on the town website.

Beaufort History Books

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105 Years Later...
North Carolina's Five Oldest Towns

Overview
PORCHSCAPES - The Colors of Beaufort, North Carolina
Miss Annie Morton

Morton House circa 1903

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