Weekend Trip In History

We went to the oldest city in North Carolina today....Bath, NC. 300 years ago Edward Teach was given a pardon from Charles Eden, the governor at the time. Teach lived in Bath for a time. Edward Teach was better known as the dreaded pirate Blackbeard. He would braid hemp rope in his beard and hair, lighting the ends on fire to give the appearance that smoke was coming from his head before boarding many a ship in the Southern Islands, and all up the east coast...even blockading the Charleston harbor in South Carolina for several days. He was finally killed in Ocracoke, and his head was hung from the sprit of the British ship that won the bloody battle that took Blackbeard's life. Some accounts say that his headless body swam around the British ship several times before finally sinking into the depths...others say his body was displayed in other harbors to help ward off other pirates. Recently, the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's flagship for a time, was found just off the beach of Fort Macon near the Beafort Inlet, not far from here. Over 16,000 peices of that ship have been excavated from the site where it was found, still much of the ship lays on the bottom...

Bridget caught this shot in Bayview just outside of Bath, near the waterfront.