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🔴 DID YOU KNOW that Hatteras Island was the site of the first Union-won battle of the Civil War?
🔴 DID YOU KNOW that Hatteras Island was home to hotel De Afrique, North Carolina's first safe haven for African Americans during the Civil War?
🔴 DID YOU KNOW that there are more than 2,000 shipwrecks off North Carolina's Outer Banks, dubbed the Graveyard of the Atlantic?
🔴 DID YOU KNOW that pirates sailed Outer Banks' waters?
🔴 DID YOU KNOW that 86 Allied vessels and four U-boats were lost off the Outer Banks during World War II?
🔴 DID YOU KNOW that the Outer Banks is made up of barrier islands that move?