Maritime H Task Fo
MANTEO MARITIME TRAIL AND OPEN-AIR MUSEUM PLAN
Mision Statement
The mission of the Town of Manteo's Maritime History Task Force is to make recommendations to the Manteo Board of Commissioners on a comprehensive plan to engage residents and visitors in a lively, multi-faceted exploration of Roanoke Island's maritime heritage through interpretation, preservation, and celebration of island culture, past and present.
The vision of the Town of Manteo's Maritime History Task Force is to find creative ways to engage the public in a dynamic exploration of key evolutionary components important to Roanoke Island's maritime heritage, and to: Recommend the best use of existing facilities and assets and to identify ways to increase educational programming at those facilities through hands-on activities and demonstrations; Build upon ideas in the Town's 20-Year Plan Update to augment existing facilities with a maritime trail and open-air museum concept incorporating public art and self-guided tours; Explore the feasibility of a new museum facility so the boathouse can return to traditional boatbuilding activities led by staff and volunteers for public engagement; Expand volunteer activities for interested citizens who want to donate their time and talents; Encourage acquisition of artifacts, memorabilia, and oral histories as educational assets; Suggest ways for the town's museum staff and volunteers to collaborate with other organizations and facilities to collect, preserve, research, and interpret Roanoke Island's maritime history, culture, and environment and to make it accessible to the public; and
Enhance current on-the-water programs such as sailing classes, regattas, and wooden boat shows with opportunities for more onboard educational activities such as shadboat sails.
Vision Statement
PROPOSAL FOR REALIGNMENT AND RESTRUCTURING OF MANTEO VENUES & STAFFING FOR THE MANTEO MARITIME TRAIL & OPEN-AIR MUSEUM
IMAGINING THE POSSIBLE
The work of the Town of Manteo’s Maritime History Task Force might well be summarized by two words. For in fact, they hold the same meaning. These two words—Manteo and Maritime—form the historical underpinnings of the entire town. You can’t have one without the other.
If you were to cast a net, fishing for history, what might you catch? How best to prepare it? Who might enjoy it? You must have a big net, for the overlapping waters of Roanoke, Croatan, Albemarle, and Pamlico sounds intermingle and then flow out through the inlets into the ocean, touching upon all aspects of Manteo’s culture and history. And so, to interpret that history, to make it relevant to those whose families shaped it, and to make it interesting to those who are willing to discover it, this net must be cast wide to capture the imagination.
Many aspects of Manteo’s maritime history you don’t have to conjure up, for they’re already here: the historic George Washington Creef Boathouse, the Elizabeth II, Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse, the Pea Island Cookhouse, boardwalks and boat slips. But other exciting bits of history live on only in one’s imagination, for who but a few are left to recall croaker houses built from a season’s catch, the duck picker’s house known to hunters far and wide, the home of Jerry the shipwrecked St. Bernard, the baggage cart ferrying luggage from the Trenton to the Tranquil House, the homes of boat builders and life-savers and lighthouse keepers?
What if these vivid glimpses of the past could be coaxed to life in honor of those who once lived, and those who might enjoy knowing them? Then you would have a museum that is alive, that covers the entire town, open to sea, to sky, to the imagination, which can be far more engaging than anything held within four walls.
One time-tested way to bring history to life is through art. What if, instead of a traditional sculpture of a person or thing, people walking about town could come upon a sculpture that is only partially there, disintegrating, or reintegrating, conjuring up the past before one’s eyes, now you see it, now you don’t? These sculptures act as wayfinders, and along the way, imagine bronze markers embedded in sidewalks all through town, or bits of history on a stick, small signs that tell a story of what once was, and why Manteo came to be this way today. How to tell the story of innovative boat designs? A virtual sportfishing simulator could give people of all ages a chance to feel what it’s like to hook a big one on a charter boat whose design came out of necessity in these waters, out of the imagination of those who fished here.
Including these and other components in an open-air museum presents a unique opportunity to bring people together all across town, to offer a variety of locations for staging special events and programming, and to encourage circulation past shops and restaurants and hotels so that people experience Manteo as a whole, greater than the sum of its parts.
Such a concept, an open-air museum, must be held together both literally and figuratively, and so a maritime trail that connects the dots is an essential part of the plan. That maritime trail must take on many forms to be relevant in today’s world, to be marked in a cohesive and recognizable form street by street, and also mapped on paper, through interactive digital maps, in video trailers, and disseminated out into the world, as people post photos of themselves on social media, taken at various points along Manteo’s Maritime Trail and Open-Air Museum.
But what about traditional museum holdings and interpretation—exhibit panels, artifacts, ephemera, interactive displays? Manteo is blessed with an abundance of possibilities. With long-range planning and public/private initiatives, Manteo can be home to a museum that will act as a hub in a wheel, with spokes radiating in all directions, connecting people and places. Such a museum would be comprehensive in its approach. In the meantime, Manteo can continue to interpret its maritime history under roof in several discreet locations: at the George Washington Creef Boathouse, the Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse, and the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum. The town can also explore other possible places to expand the story, such as the Magnolia Pavilion, and collaborative use of space at Roanoke Island Festival Park.
So what can Manteo capture in this imaginary net? A way to experience the present through the context of the past, that is meaningful to all. The Outer Banks Visitors Bureau identified three main reasons people choose to visit the Outer Banks: to make lifetime memories, to find time to unwind, and to escape from modern life. Those are attributes that we who live here also treasure. With a mile-long boardwalk creating a pedestrian edge between Manteo’s built environment and its surrounding waters, the creation of a maritime trail connecting past and present offers both residents and visitors a way to connect —with
each other, and with their surroundings—with past and present coming together to form new memories, new rituals, new meaning. That is quite a catch.
PRACTICAL STEPS
Until the time is right for a larger scale museum, progress can be made immediately by reallocating space, reassigning uses, and realigning staffing as a short-term, cost-effective, and practical use of Manteo’s many current maritime-related assets. This proposal advocates returning the current Roanoke Island Maritime Museum to its traditional use as a boatbuilding shop and continuing its modern-day use as a sailing center.
In the short term, four options exist for a primary museum location on the Manteo Waterfront which sees the most visitor traffic: Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse, offering a traditional space for programming and exhibits; the Event Room in the administrative building at Roanoke Island Festival Park, a large space that could be used in collaboration with the State of North Carolina; the free-standing museum shop directly across from the Adventure Museum at Roanoke Island Festival Park; or Magnolia Pavilion, which could become a unique open-air museum or could be returned to its original enclosed configuration when it was first built as Magnolia Market. Each waterfront location has its strengths. Each one provides the Board of Commissioners (and the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources) an opportunity to realign, prioritize, and centralize existing assets while connecting to the whole, and offers a potential collaborative space-planning project similar to the town’s previous revitalization efforts over the past 40 years.
A second key museum location at Collins Park, the Pea Island Cookhouse, along with Cartwright Park, can tell a multi-faceted story of the US Life-Saving Service, the US Coast Guard, as well as the Battle of Roanoke Island, a maritime campaign in the Civil War, and the safe haven across the water that became the Freedmen’s Colony.
Connecting the various points on the Maritime Trail, these two museums, with a future third location on US 64, along with a welcome center at the Manteo Town Common, would utilize docents rotating on a regular schedule. A multi-seat golf cart or small trolley would depart from the Town Commons. Should a water taxi become a reality, the lighthouse pier would become a second trolley junction. The long-range opportunity to build a museum on US 64 would guide through-town traffic to other points of interest in Manteo and elsewhere on Roanoke Island.
As an open-air museum, Manteo’s maritime history would be told through exhibit panels incorporated into a wide variety of locations, through sidewalk plaques, sculptures, on-the-water activities, programming, talks, podcasts, digital maps and other wayfinding aids, and docents.
Manteo’s offerings for residents, visitors, and boaters would benefit from a realignment of town personnel. A fulltime maritime director would oversee operations at the various venues, develop programming and events, and supervise part -time or volunteer docents who would cover a variety of venues. The Manteo Marina would benefit from a return to a fulltime dockmaster who, in addition to assisting transient boaters, could staff one of the waterfront venues.
Roanoke Island Festival Park’s Adventure Museum and her flagship, the Elizabeth II, and the Town of Manteo, could benefit from collaboration in depicting Roanoke Island’s history. Other opportunities for connection and collaboration abound: Coastal Studies Institute, COA, Manteo High School, Dare County Boatbuilders Foundation, Island Farm, Roanoke Island Yacht Club, Pirate’s Cove Marina, Wanchese Industrial Park, the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, Pea Island Preservation Society, and many others can strengthen and expand this island’s story, ripe for telling.
It’s such a big story, it’s more easily told through the concept of an open-air museum, with venues all across town focusing on a variety of topics: Elizabethan exploration; 18th and 19th century fishing/farming, waterfowl hunting, life-saving and lighthouses, and mercantile water-based traffic; boatbuilding; commercial and sportfishing activities; marine ecology, winds and weather, and geo-coastal features; and watersports from 20th century speedboat racing to today’s on-the water activities.
Because this approach touches the history of so many families and so many modern-day businesses, in large and small ways that contribute to the whole, the opportunity for sponsorships would help to offset costs. And because of this unique approach, there may be opportunities for funding through the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Main Street program, the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, and other organizations.
To encourage citizen input and buy-in to this concept, a return to Professor Randy Hester’s nationally recognized participatory planning concept including citizens’ identification of “sacred spaces” in the town could be led by a coalition of the Manteo Town Planner, the Manteo Planning Board, the Manteo Preservation & Architectural Review Committee, Manteo Preservation Trust, Outer Banks Conservationists, Pea Island Preservation Society, and the Maritime History Task Force. Each of the existing main venues could benefit from a design charrette to develop ideas for the future best use of the space.
SCOPE OF WORK
Next steps would be to:
• present this plan to the Town of Manteo Board of Commissioners for initial feedback and discussion;
• schedule a meeting to involve townspeople in a series of design charrettes or informal meetings to gauge interest;
• establish a list of quick wins or easily accomplished projects to build excitement, and then implement them;
• engage interested citizens and town staff to break out work assignments for different components such as exhibit topics; sidewalk plaque content and design; sculpture ideas; communications strategy including maritime trail mapping, videography, podcasts, free-standing website, and social media campaign; docent educational handbooks, etc.;
• meet with other maritime museums, art advocates, various state and local partners, business leaders, and non-profits to discuss collaboration and opportunities for funding, including public/private partnerships; and
• work with town personnel and commissioners to discuss a timetable for the realignment of staff duties and volunteer opportunities.
Below are detailed suggestions for a realignment of resources to accomplish this huge, and hugely exciting, effort to bring Manteo’s maritime history to life in a way that engages citizens’ pride and visitors’ imagination.
Respectively submitted by the Town of Manteo’s Maritime History Task Force
LeVern Parker, Chair December 2024
A CONCEPTUAL PLAN AND SUMMARY OF CURRENT USES, CURRENT NEEDS, FUTURE USES, FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS, AND MANAGEMENT FOR THE TOWN OF MANTEO’S OPEN-AIR MUSEUM AND MARITIME TRAIL
ROANOKE ISLAND MARITIME MUSEUM
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Multipurpose
• Museum
• Boatbuilding Shop
• Sailing Program
• Storage (Storm)
• Storage (Town)
• Storage (Opti Boats)
• Displays (Work Boats, Race Boats)
• Kiosk
• Director’s Office
• Public Restroom
• New Floor
• Air-Conditioned Space for TemperatureSensitive Kiosks
• Repair Boat Engines
• Repair Spirit of Roanoke Island Shadboat, Add Vessel Name, Put Back in the Water
• Put Other Historic Boats Back in the Water
• Return to Former Name: George Washington Creef Boathouse
• Sailing Program
• Active Boatbuilding Shop
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Office for Sailing Director / Boatbuilding Volunteers
• Community Use (Yacht Club, Manteo High School Maritime Club Headquarters)
• Move Town Items in Storage
• Utilize 2nd Floor for Maritime-Related Uses
• Add Programming
• Add Boatbuilding Projects in Collaboration w Manteo High School, COA, Dare Boatbuilders Foundation
• Add Exhibits on EII Construction, Boatbuilding, Creef/Davis Family, Sailing
• Maritime Director Fulltime / Oversight or Main Office
• Sailing Director/Staff Seasonal; Docent or Volunteer Boatbuilder Seasonal
• Collaboration w Manteo High School, COA, Dare Boatbuilders Foundation, Roanoke Island Yacht Club
• Promote Tuesday On-the Water Opportunities for Opti Sailboats and Spirit of Roanoke Island
• Add Digital Trail Map, Directional Info on Maritime Trail
ROANOKE MARSHES LIGHTHOUSE
(Possible Use as RI Maritime Museum)
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Exhibit Space
• Operational Beacon
• Short-Term Dock
• Weddings
• Screwpile / Info Panel
• Video Often Not Operable Due to Heat / Add AC & Heat
• Determine Whether Appropriate for Main Museum Space
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Water Taxi Dock
• Use Is Dependent on Choice of Main Museum Site; May Include Some or All of the Following
• Exhibits on Lighthouses, Fishing, Boatbuilding, Lifesaving, Waterfowl Hunting
• Introductory History of Manteo as Hub of Developing County Seat, Importance of Water
Transportation, Significance of
• Use Is Dependent on Managerial Assignment: If Main Museum, Assign Maritime Director to Staff Facility; Otherwise, Museum Docent Fulltime or Combine with Duties of Fulltime Dockmaster to Be Onsite Manager
Shallow Sounds, No Bridges; Kinds of Fish Harvested, and How; Winds and Weather; Design of Boats Reflecting Environment; Shift of Sail to Power
• Develop Digital Trail Map
• Add Directional Info on Maritime Trail
MAGNOLIA PAVILION (2nd Possible Relocation of RI Maritime Museum)
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Special Events
•
• Possible Primary Maritime Museum
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Open-Air Maritime Museum w Moveable Exhibit Panels & Artifacts (Either in Place of or in Addition to Other Facilities)
• If Used as Primary Maritime Museum, Enclose the Space w Shed Doors
• Add Interactive Activity like Sportfishing Fighting Chair if Primary Museum
• Fix Roof
• Remove Florescent Lighting & Replace w Nautical Lights, Warm Kelvin Bulbs
• Use Is Dependent on Managerial Assignment: If Main Museum, Assign Maritime Director to Staff This Facility; Otherwise, Museum Docent
• Museum Exhibits & Programming
• Historic Boats (Move Some From Boathouse)
• Racing Trophies and Race Boat, Exhibit on Race Launch Site at Today’s Boat Ramp
• Info on Capt Warren O’Neal Moved Here, Closer to His Former Boathouse, with Interpretation of Innovative Carolina Flare Boat Design
• Exhibit Panel on Nearby “Croaker Houses” Paid for by Season’s Fish Catch
• Digital Trail Map
• Add Directional Info on Maritime Trail
ROANOKE ISLAND FESTIVAL PARK EVENT ROOM (FORMER ART GALLERY) (3rd Possible Relocation of RI Maritime Museum)
• Event Rental Space (2,230 sq ft)
• Possible Primary Roanoke Island Maritime Museum
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Consider Converting to RI Maritime Museum w Exhibits & Programming
• Digital Trail Map
• Add Directional Info on Maritime Trail
• In Collaboration w Roanoke Island Festival Park Executive Director; Use Is Dependent on Managerial Assignment: If Main Museum, Assign Maritime Director to Staff This Facility
ROANOKE ISLAND FESTIVAL PARK MUSEUM STORE (4th Possible Relocation of RI Maritime Museum)
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Festival Park Museum Store
• Possible Primary Roanoke Island Maritime Museum
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Consider Converting to RI Maritime Museum w Exhibits & Programming
• Digital Trail Map
• Add Directional Info on Maritime Trail
• In Collaboration w Roanoke Island Festival Park Executive Director; Use Is Dependent on Managerial Assignment: If Main Museum, Assign Maritime Director to Staff This Facility
FUTURE LOCATION OF ROANOKE ISLAND MARITIME MUSUEM (POSSIBLE LOCATION ON US 64) Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Possible Primary Roanoke Island Maritime Museum Acting as the Hub, with Trolleys Taking Visitors to Other Maritime Sites; Opportunity for Public/Private Partnership
• Larger Role in Depicting Maritime History of Entire Island Including Wanchese and North End
• Focus To Include Information on the Island’s Four Sounds, Roanoke, Albemarle, Croatan, and Pamlico, and Features Such as the Roanoke Marshes, John’s Ditch, and Maggie’s Drawers
• Suitable Showcasing of Greater Number of Artifacts and Ephemera and Interactive Exhibits
• Maritime Director
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Protective Shelter
• Exhibits on Shadboat
• Walls Need Repair
• Same
• Add Exhibit Panels
Depicting Evolution of Fishing Boats, Trawlers, Sportfishing Boats in Manteo & Wanchese; What Is/Was Shad Fishing
• Add Miniature Climb-Aboard Sportfishing Boat for Children Adjacent to Boat Shed w Exhibit Panel
WATERFRONT GAZEBO
• Maritime Director’s Oversight
• Docent Occasional
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Open to Public for Sightseeing, Fishing
• Occasional Maritime Talks
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Maritime Museum (open or enclosed)
• Seating
• Maritime Director’s Oversight
• Docent Occasional
ELLA VIEW BOAT SHED
GEORGE WASHINGTON CREEF PARK
Current Use
• Downtown Market
• Sailing Program
• Kids Fishing Tournament
• Annual Boat Show
• Dare Day
• July 4
• Halloween
• Concerts
• Picnics
• Dogs
• Open Space
• Weddings
• Open Space
• Maritime Trail Locale
JULE’S PARK
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Minimize Size/Height of Fenced Enclosure
Around Junction Box If Possible
• Maritime Director’s Oversight in Coordination with Special Events Coordinator,
• Public Works Director
• Children’s Playground
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Add 1 or 2 Maritime Themed Playground Features
• Public Works
• Public Works
DAVID FARROW PLAYGROUND
• Add Fence for Safety and Put Maritime
Exhibit Panels
Appropriate to Children on Fence
Interior
WEATHER TOWER
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Weather Flags Changed Daily
• Exhibit Panel
• Metal Work
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Dockmaster
MANTEO WATERFRONT MARINA
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Transient Boats
• Long-Term Slip Rentals
• Commercial Slips
• Day Trippers
• Piling & Decking Repairs
• Water Taxi Arrival/Departures
• Maritime Trail Locale
• See Below for Marina Office Use
• Evaluate Transient Boating Needs
• Courtesy Golf Cart
• Full Time Dock Master
• Improved Hospitality, Direct Contact w Transient Boaters
• Children’s Feature Such as Dolphin or Crab Sculpture in
• Fulltime Dockmaster
Adjacent Park w Educational Info
• Comfort Station Improvements for Hospitality
MANTEO WATERFRONT MARINA OFFICE
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Convert to Boater’s Lounge
• Add Ice Machine, Sofa/Chairs, Table/Chairs
MANTEO BOARDWALKS
• Fulltime Dock Master
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• One Mile of Public Boardwalks
• Ongoing Repairs
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Sculpture Depicting Child Atop Luggage Cart for the Trenton; Exhibit Panel on Trenton’s Importance to Early 20th Century Travel, Transportation, Shipping
• Public Works
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
DAVIS PARK (Between Poor Richard’s & Waterfront Shops)
• Public Park
• Arts Council
• War Memorial
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Name the Park in Honor of Davis Family
• Paint Trash Receptacle Screen Brown/Gray to “Quiet” Its Appearance
• Reduce Number of Light Bollards or Switch to Smaller Fixtures
• Add Exhibit Panel or Sculpture re: Elizabeth II (design already created by RIFP), Ice Plant Island or Exhibit Panel on 19th C Mercantile
DARE ARTS / FORMER COURTHOUSE
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Small Exhibit Panel at War Memorial About Boatbuilding During WWII
• Small Sculpture of Shipwrecked Goods Sold at Courthouse
• Public Works
• Occasional Docent When Lots of Pedestrian Traffic
• Dare Arts in Collaboration w Public Works, Maritime Director
Vendue Sale Adjacent to Courthouse
NET SHED
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Boardwalk Feature with Exhibits
• • Maritime Trail Locale
• Educational Programs
• Exhibits and Interpretation: Variety of Catch; Where Catch Was Sold or Shipped; How Do Nets Work, Kinds of Nets, Net Needles; How Does Crabbing Work, Pots, Soft Crabbing, Dip Nets, Lines Baited with Bull Lips; Clamming, Rakes; Oyster Beds, Types; Knots
• Artifacts
• Educational Activities Such as Children’s Program on Crabbing, Painting Crabpot Buoys w Their Names, How to Tie
• Maritime Director’s Oversight
• Occasional Docent
Current
• Boat Ramp • Not Sure
EDWARD’S LANDING
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Kayak / Paddleboard Launch or Signage to Direct People Across the Bridge
Knots, Other HandsOn Projects
• Kayak Launch
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Add Kayak / Paddleboard/ Rowing Scull Launch
• Collaboration w Kayak, Paddling , or Rowing Clubs
• Exhibit Panel on Dough’s Creek and Marsh and Environmental Function of Estuaries
• Dockmaster
• Add Directional Signage at Edward’s Landing
• Roanoke Island Festival Park
ROANOKE ISLAND FESTIVAL PARK KAYAK LAUNCH
ROANOKE ISLAND FESTIVAL PARK ADVENTURE MUSEUM
• Exhibit Hall • Not Sure
• Public Parking
• Public Restrooms
•
• Picnic Area
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Improved Collaboration w Town of Manteo
• Add Directional Info on Maritime Trail
• Exhibit Panel on Festival Park Grounds About Former Property Owners, the Lennon Family, and History of Ice Plant Island
MANTEO TOWN COMMONS
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Maritime Sculpture
• Maritime Exhibit Panels
• Maritime Podcast Information
• Pickup/Dropoff for Multi-Seat Open-Air
Golf Cart or Small Trolley
• Add Sculpture of Manteo
• Add Exhibit Panels
• Develop Podcast or Digital Trail Map
• Add Directional Info on Maritime Trail
• Multi-Seat Open-Air
Golf Cart or Small Trolley
• Roanoke Island Festival Park
• Public Works
• Maritime Director
• Docent Driving Guests on Circuit to Other Venues
PEA ISLAND COOKHOUSE MUSEUM
• Museum Open by Appointment
• Exterior Exhibits When Not Open
• Staffing
• Maintenance of Cookhouse and Boathouse
• Annual Protective Treatment for Sculpture: Wash and Wax
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Museum Open on Regular Schedule
• Storage Building w Restrooms
• Multimedia Exhibit
• Life-Saving Drill Perhaps in Conjunction with Chicamacomico
• Life-Saving Artifacts
• Maritime Director’s Oversight
• Docent to Staff for Regular Opening Hours
• Open-Air Pavilion
• Restrooms
• Church Ruins
• Refurbish/Rebuild Pavilion & Restrooms
• Stabilize Church Ruins & Add Exhibits on Safe Haven, Freedmen’s Colony, Roanoke Island Civil War Battles, First Black Missionary to Africa
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Maritime Director’s Oversight
• Docent on Rotation w Other Venues
• Public Works
• Traffic Circle
• Sculpture
• Landscaping
RICHARD ETHERIDGE ROUNDABOUT
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Public Works
CARTWRIGHT PARK
• Annual Protective Wash and Wax on Sculpture
COLLIS GALLOP PLAYGROUND
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Children’s Playground
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Add 1 or 2 Maritime Themed Playground Features
• Add Fence for Safety and Put Maritime Exhibit Panels
Appropriate to Children on Fence Interior
VARIOUS MANTEO STREETSCAPES
• Public Works
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Sidewalks
• Streets Remove Utility Poles from Sidewalks
• Maritime Trail Locales
• Traffic Solutions on US 64
• Bronze or Ceramic Plaques Embedded in Sidewalks and/or on Small Signs Adjacent to Locations w a Maritime Connection (Ex: Plaque at Captains’ Houses, Boatbuilders’
• Maritime Director’s Oversight
• Public Works
• Collaboration w NC DOT
Houses, Life-Saving Station Builders and Coast Guardsmen’s Houses, All Paid for Through Donations, Sponsorships)
• With Permission of Property Owners, Small Sculptures on Private Property Depicting Maritime History (Ex: Sculpture of Jerry, the Shipwrecked Dog, at White Doe Inn)
• Add Roundabouts on US 64 with Maritime Sculpture & Landscaping
• Add Median Flanked by Roundabouts on US 64 Between Chesley Mall & COA and Eliminate Multiple Curbcuts, Add Maritime Sculptures and Landscaping
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Town Cemetery
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Exhibit Panel at Cemetery Gate or in Eventide Chapel w Cemetery Map Marking MaritimeRelated Gravesites
PIRATE’S COVE MARINA
• Maritime Director
• Manteo Cemetery Committee
• Public Works
Current Use Current Needs Future Use Future Improvements Management
• Private Marina
• Maritime Trail Locale
• Exhibit Panel on Sportfishing History
• Exhibit Panel on Modern-Day Boatbuilding and Historic Antecedents Such As Carolina Flare
• Alternative Location for Fighting Chair
• Marina Operator
MARITIME HISTORY
TASK FORCE MEMBERS
LaVern Davis Parker - Chair
Angel Khoury
Bill Parker
Michael McOwen
Frank Hester
Joan Collins
Ricky Scarborough
Commissioner Michael Basnight - Liaison
THANK YOU TO OUR MARITIME HISTORY TASKFORCE MEMBERS
“In
one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” — Kahlil Gibran