A glimpse into the Civil War-era Freedmen’s Colony experience may soon be brought to life thanks to a planned Fort Raleigh National Historic Site project.
As with all lighthouses, they only gave warnings of landfall at night; what about the other half of the 24 hours? What about storms that caused most of our shipwrecks, day and night, month after month? Enter the United States Life-Saving Service, one of the least-known yet most fascinating facets of American history.