Pea Island Lifesavers - Waves NC - Civil Rights Memorials on Waymarking.com

LOCATION: SR12 Near the Pea Island NWR visitor Center.

TEXT ON THE HISTORIAL MARKER:
Only U.S. Lifesaving Station manned by black crew. Led by Richard Etheridge, 1880-1900. Operated near here.

From Wikipedia:

"Pea Island Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was the first life-saving station in the country to have an all-black crew, and it was the first in the nation to have a black man, Richard Etheridge, as commanding officer. On August 3, 2012, the second of the Coast Guard's 154-foot Sentinel-Class Cutters, USCGC Richard Etheridge (WPC-1102), was commissioned in his honor."

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Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)

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Date Logged Log User Rating   10/24/2022 Don.Morfe visited it