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416 YEARS OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN NORTH CAROLINA
The Roanoke Island Fishing Weir
And The Midgette Goose Impoundment
The photos below are of approximately the same stretch of Roanoke Island where DeBry depicts Indian fishing practices and the use of a "fishing weir" in 1585
Coincidentally, Mr. Lewis Midgette of Roanoke Island built a goose impoundment in the 1960's which resembles, and is generally oriented, like the weir depicted in the DeBry engravings below. Mr. Midgette, now in his 80's, visits the impoundment every day and maintains an immense flock of geese.
Looking northwest over Roanoke Island from the DeBry engraving
Looking north up the eastern shoreline of Roanoke Island and the Midgette Impoundment
Looking southeast from Roanoke Island and over the Midgette impoundment
Looking east from Roanoke Island in 1616
Looking east from Roanoke Island today
Other views of the Midgette Property from the ground.
1998 USGS color infrared aerial photo of central Roanoke Island
North Carolina Antique Map Gallery
John Lawson's Trek Through the Carolinas
And the improvement of North Carolina in 1815
Penguins and Parrots in North Carolina?
