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Community History Archive Partner

Dare County Library

Buxton, North Carolina

Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Buxton.

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1973 to 2002Dates represented

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4,665Archive pages

Historical pages reported for this collection.

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Discover the people, places, and stories of Buxton, North Carolina.

Explore the collection shared by Dare County Library, beginning with a question about Buxton. The archive includes Sea Chest Magazine, with material from 1973 to 2002.

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    Dare County Library shares “Sea Chest Magazine”.

  • Free and open access

    No subscription or payment required.

  • Ways to explore

    Begin with a question of your own. Keep any date or description shown with your notes so you can return to the material.

When a title or date is available, keep it with any detail that interests you. Let evidence guide what you conclude and what remains open. For family-history research, a classroom project, or personal curiosity, local history can be explored from many different starting points. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.

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Titles in this collection

Explore Sea Chest Magazine through 4,665 digitized pages, with material from 1973 to 2002. This collection is shared through Dare County Library's partnership with Advantage Archives. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.

A family name, place or date can help you decide where to begin.

Sea Chest Magazine

4,665 pages from 1973 to 2002

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More ways to explore and share local history

Research Guidance

Turn a question into a source trail

A family name, familiar place, or question about Buxton can be a starting point for exploring its history. The collection details shared by the Dare County Library can help you choose a direction. Choose a person, place, organization, or event to investigate. Record the source title and date for each lead, and mark what is still uncertain.

When a promising lead runs out, return to the titles and dates shown for the collection, where available. Try another spelling, name, place, or nearby period connected with your question. Keep searches that did not help alongside useful findings; gaps in historical coverage can limit what any search reveals.

As you piece together a story from the past, note where each detail came from and why it matters. Include the title, date, and page or item reference. Mark uncertain identifications and unanswered questions so a promising connection does not become an unsupported fact.

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Community Partnership

Keeping local history a community resource

This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Dare County Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.

Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.

Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.

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Read All About It

Stories, research tips, and archive news

Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.

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March 18, 2025

It’s Your Community’s History, So Why Rent Something You Own?

We believe that history belongs to the communities where it was made - not locked behind paywalls or inaccessible due to budget restrictions. Subscription-based services and large content aggregators are generally more concerned with "content" and less concerned with the history that content contains. Their models typically involve a reoccurring charge for a plan that renews annually or licensing agreements with the library based on population served or circulation numbers. You are essentially Renting Access To YOUR History.
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