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Pea Island Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was the first life-saving station in the country to have an all-black crew, and it was the first in the nation to have a black man, Richard Etheridge, as commanding officer. [ 1 ]
Oregon Inlet Station is a historic lifesaving station located near Rodanthe, Dare County, North Carolina. It was built in 1897 by the United States Life-Saving Service and remodeled in 1933 and 1970. It is a 1 1/2-story, Shingle Style rectangular frame building with a lookout tower. It has a porch that surrounds the building.
Pea Island dunes Pea Island ocean view. Pea Island is an island which is part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.Because of the shifting nature of the barrier island system of which Pea Island is a part, and the way in which inlets open and close over time, Pea Island has, at times, been contiguous with the neighboring islands of Bodie Island or Hatteras Island.
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Wood Island Museum off the coast of Kittery, Maine, is scheduled to open Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, after restoring the former U.S. Life-Saving Service station.
William Charles Bowser (June 25, 1915 – June 28, 2006) was a member of the all-black Pea Island Life-Saving Station along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, US, from 1935 to 1938. He was one of the last surviving members of the station, which was decommissioned after World War II.
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