Blake Tyner – Historian & Storyteller

Step into the shadows with historian Blake Tyner for a chilling stroll through Lumberton’s most haunted tales! Prepare to be captivated by the dark back stories of murder, crime, and mayhem that still echo through the streets. Saturday, October 26, 2024 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm During the Hogtoberfest (for more information about Hogtober) Free…

It doesn’t matter if you call it Drowning Creek, Lumber River or the Old Lumbee the dark waters that wind through Moore, Scotland and Robeson Counties draws you in almost hypnotizing you. In the early years of the county the river served as a highway for commerce. Trees harvested in the county were rafted down…

Dark Waters of the Lumber River Bring Pleasure The dark swift waters that wind through southern North Carolina like a black velvet ribbon have gone by many names – Lumbee, Drowning Creek and the Lumber River. It travels from Scotland and Hoke counties into Robeson and Columbus counties before merging into the Pee Dee River….

Hurricanes have always plagued the coast of the Carolinas even before the first successful English settlement. In Jay Barnes’s book North Carolina’s Hurricane History, we find that in 1526 Lucas de Ayllón led a large Spanish expedition in search of gold along the Cape Fear. It is believed that the ship was wrecked near Bald…

{Writer’s Note: Retold from Hunter’s words as found in his book “Negro Life in North Carolina with My Recollections”.} While doing some research in Duke University’s archives, I stumbled across a mention of Charles Norfleet Hunter’s teaching in Shoe Heel (modern day Maxton).  Pouring over the letters, scrapbooks and newspaper articles in the Charles N….

There was one thing that connected Lumberton’s Ida Van Smith to Orville and Wilber Wright, and that was the desire to fly – to soar with the birds. From the time Ida was about 3 in 1920, her desire grew as she watched the science of flight unfold after its historic beginning in her North…