History of the Assateague Lighthouse

Admin | February 17, 2009

The History of the Assateague Lighthouse By Wilma Young On May 31, 1831, Conway Whittle of Norfolk, VA wrote to W. J. Curtis, the Collector of Customs, Drummondtown, VA; requesting a pilot familiar with the navigation of Chincoteague Inlet in order that said pilot might meet Whittle’s craft to lead such a craft to the [...]

Assateague Island, a Virginia Home to the Wild Ponies Also Home to Wildlife of all Kinds

Admin | February 7, 2009

In the winter I walk the beach, often without another human in sight… that’s when my soul recovers. The first time I saw a peregrine do his stoop…the one and only time I saw a woodcock plunge to earth in his courting flight, the day I saw the first foal of the season being born [...]