Traveling down Pamlico Sound in 1888, a New York Times correspondent found "a collection of log huts, inhabited by fishermen" at Stumpy Point, N.C. He wrote, "The ground on which these huts are built is so boggy that the lowest tier of bunks . . . is generally half full of water."
shad fishery
The Barney Slough Fish Camp, 1905
I love this photograph of fishermen at the Barney Slough Fish Camp back in the winter of 1905. They were shad fishermen and you can see them standing with their pound net stakes, just off Hatteras Island.
David Cecelski 