David Stick and the Outer Banks History Center

This NC Department of Cultural Resources library and manuscript repository houses North Carolina's noted historian and environmentalist David Stick's personal library and his papers spanning six decades of journalism, historical research and public service. Adjacent to the Elizabeth II State Historic Site in Manteo, the Center also contains over 300 paintings by his father, the late Frank Stick.

David Stick began his writing career as correspondent for the Elizabeth City Independent at an early age. Stick also served as a U. S. Marine Corps combat correspondent and an associate editor of The American Legion Magazine. He has written or edited eleven books on NC history. So popular are these books that two (Graveyard of the Atlantic -1952 and The Outer Banks of North Carolina - 1958) are still in print.

The David Stick Collection and Papers comprises more than 25,000 books, pamphlets, and 150 cubic feet of correspondence, business records and research notes.

Other collections and libraries are also housed at the Outer Banks History Center, including The Cape Hatteras National Seashore Library and Oral History Collection, The Elizabeth II State Historic Site Library and the Aycock Brown Tourist Bureau Collection. The Center collects books and other items in its field of interest.



For more information: Outer Banks History Center