<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Historic Port of Washington]]></title><description><![CDATA[Historic Port of Washington Project]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 10:54:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.historicportofwashington.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Hull Anderson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hull Anderson was a successful shipwright and a freed Black man, but in North Carolina, that didn’t mean he was free.]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/hull-anderson</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699233cacf429c4fcb49d660</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:07:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the "Big Chill" hit Eastern North Carolina]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking north along the County Bridge towards Washington, NC Do you think the “polar vortexes” of late have made it unusually cold in eastern North Carolina? Granted, it’s been cold enough during the past few days for Jack’s Creek (historically known as Windmill Creek) to ice over several times. But it hasn’t been anywhere near as cold as it was during a ten-day period of sub-freezing temperatures during the winter of 1917/1918.  As the New Year approached in late December of 1917, the river...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/when-the-big-chill-hit-eastern-north-carolina</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697b77b2dbf46e99c1ea6acb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:08:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/36f639_35c9794cbe2f43d99ed1696670e91db9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ray Midgett</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Floating Theatre]]></title><description><![CDATA[For 27 years the Floating Theatre visited isolated ports in the North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland tidewaters, ultimately coming to a fiery end.]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/floating-theatre</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697f7abdbb104146c0d04974</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:39:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_7324bcfd5e7a49fa97ea47bd52c1b607~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farrow Shipyard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joseph Allen Farrow would become the man most closely associated with the Farrow Shipyard for over half a century, spanning the Civil War, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, and the beginning of the 20th century.]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/farrow-shipyard</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69496aebf9a6c032f0b3b890</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:44:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_2dcc172229084ea2957f7607c13554cd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steam Yacht Thetis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The steam yacht Thetis moored at the Washington waterfront. Charles Fuller, second from right, seems to be languidly fishing. In January 1909, a man strolled past the skating rink in Washington, N.C., and paused at the exhibits being prepared for Corn Judging Day. It was the annual Agricultural Fair sponsored by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad. Farmers from throughout Beaufort County competed. It was obvious that there were too few volunteers for the work to be done, putting the corn grown...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/steam-yacht-thetis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6939ad39648729fef527ea61</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:34:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_48bae43d168c4340b156c7127f4e99e0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Buoy Yard]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Buoy Yard was a landmark on Washington’s waterfront for generations. Crowds gathered on the wharves when the Holly and Jessamine , 156-foot-long sidewheel steamers, maneuvered in the stream, their wheels churning the dark water, approaching or departing government dock. There’s now nothing to mark the yard’s existence, not even one of the massive iron buoys thrown about by the 1913 hurricane. US Lighthouse Service Tender Jessamine , 1885. Photo credit: United States Lighthouse Service...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/the-buoy-yard</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6923abb8f0736c54fcaf16c0</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:26:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_5b92c63f9bdb4af0a79c860b4754c6a4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timber Town: Washington &#38; the Lumber Trade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since the Civil War, the strident whine of massive saws and the smell of sawdust dominated Washington’s waterfront. Steam whistles echoed between the riverbanks as tugs towed rafts of logs to the mills or hauled barges with milled lumber from the wharves. The mill whistles kept cadence with the workday. Men shouted to each other as they balanced on floating logs, herding them toward the steam hoist that would drag them into the mill. It was a loud, bustling, boisterous waterfront and a...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/timber-town-washington-the-lumber-trade</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690a534d815d8fbd47c76cfe</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:16:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_62cc1f2c37b8402c9e70cef97ffc0ae0~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Boat for All Seasons]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1875, a Connecticut businessman named George Ives moved to Morehead City, North Carolina, to open a wholesale fish and oyster business. Ives owned an oyster keg and barrel factory in New Haven. The Ives family had a long history in New England’s oyster fishery, but by 1876, the natural oyster reefs of Long Island Sound and Great South Bay had been seriously depleted. Before Ives left Connecticut, he had two Long Island sharpies built and shipped by schooner to Washington, North Carolina....]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/a-boat-for-all-seasons</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f7d4b2606d6d6a2e74d9af</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:00:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_3c2e5fbc01d64deaa2e2d50ef9c129a7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind Tigers &#38; Monkey Rum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Political poster for North Carolina's prohibition. Photo credit: NCPedia. In 1908, North Carolina was the first Southern state to pass statewide prohibition, 62% to 38%, after having been the first Southern state to fail the attempt in 1881. The law made it illegal to manufacture, transport, or sell alcohol in the state. It didn’t make it illegal to buy it. There is probably no other law in North Carolina’s history that has been more often broken by its citizens and ignored by its police. It...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/blind-tigers-monkey-rum</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68da8c2ad3b5c27c520226c6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:58:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_d17ab25b165140d9abef61f941e8d11c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_400,h_307,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballot in One Hand, Bottle in the Other]]></title><description><![CDATA[2 of 3 on Prohibition In 1832, Washington, NC, resident and physician William Shaw delivered a series of lectures to the Washington Temperance Society where he indicted intemperance as a “source of disease” and a “national evil.” The consumption of alcohol “fills prisons with dishonest, weak, and wicked criminals…fills alms houses with paupers…makes tens of thousands of men poor and wretched, and leaves their widows indigent and destitute [and throws] on the charity of this cold world great...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/ballot-in-one-hand-bottle-in-the-other</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d57bd973940711a70f3e44</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:32:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_0d4f4d2e51df4d58ac438e68d00288f7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_648,h_927,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whiskey Culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[1 of 3 on Prohibition North Carolina has had a long, contentious relationship with liquor, a relationship muddled by religion and politics, rural culture, women’s suffrage, and racism. Early in the Republic, “American whiskey was usually 50 percent alcohol; not aged; colorless; cheaper than coffee, tea, milk, or beer; and safer than water, since alcohol killed germs.” [1] Scotch-Irish immigrants were already experienced distilling small batches of whiskey and brandy when they first settled in...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/whiskey-culture</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d586f373940711a70f5702</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:49:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_bb034e4e2eb949c5b280d20f9a70b163~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington &#38; the Oyster War]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was rumor that ignited North Carolina’s oyster war, rumor that spread as fast and fierce as a prairie fire. “…the Virginia men are down here and have taken entire possession of all the oyster grounds; their boats are much larger than those here, and when these are at work the Virginians will run down upon them and tear them up,” Sam Whitehurst wrote on January 5, 1891, “ and when they try to retaliate it is useless, for they are armed to the teeth with Winchester rifles and some have 36...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/washington-the-oyster-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68cc3496586b49739ab62522</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:04:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_df3f810fecb649829ab423614d1c5ccd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_333,h_444,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fires &#38; Floods]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rubble left on Water Street after the 1900 fire. Annie Blackwell Jarvis was born March 25, 1876, daughter of Oliver Jarvis (1828-1883) and Jane Sparrow Jarvis (1849-1911). She died at the Beaufort County Nursing Home on October 4, 1972. She was 96 years old, never married, and is buried in Oakdale Cemetery. In the early 1900’s, Annie served as a teacher at Washington’s primary school. She was also a substitute librarian at Washington Public Library during the Depression. An Account of...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/fires-floods</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68c86fa0e1614c4b7ebe4c6d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:32:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/36f639_12eb6c4a325c431fb85da45f210dc53f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_940,h_734,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nameless Hurricane, 1913]]></title><description><![CDATA[Office of the Moss Planing Mill. Milled lumber broadcast by the storm lays scattered on the shore. Partially obscured by the mill office, a steamboat is hard aground. In the background, remnants of the building on Castle Island can be seen. Source: Source: Washington Progress , September 11, 1913. Late in August 1913, a tropical depression formed halfway between Bermuda and the Bahamas. The wind began to swirl toward it like water around a drain. At 7:00 am Eastern Standard Time, August 30,...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/the-nameless-hurricane-1913</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a4950b52b87596cc58d93b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:59:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e12e3_65d550cb7d33487c88f2bf52f9a15dcf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Surging Holocaust]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking across a debris field from Water Street following the September1900 fire. Commercial buildings in the background are believed to...]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/a-surging-holocaust</link><guid isPermaLink="false">687971a40902c615f4d1afcc</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:01:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/36f639_12eb6c4a325c431fb85da45f210dc53f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_940,h_734,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Streets Made of Shell, Washington's Oyster Boom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before 1890, the oyster fishery of North Carolina was largely a cottage industry. When J. S. Farren’s cannery came to Washington on the banks of the Pamlico in 1890, the North Carolina oyster fishery had dramatically changed.]]></description><link>https://www.historicportofwashington.org/post/streets-made-of-shell-washington-s-oyster-boom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6805ac050abef984ec3b746c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 02:56:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/36f639_20b2f8f372d04f378ae61e1751c097b5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_468,h_372,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Charles Thrasher</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>