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LITTLE BOAT
WITH A BIG HISTORY.
The Hattie Creef,
a
Carolina Sharpie once owned by the Globe Fish
Company, was moored for many years on the P.P. Gregory
property (which is now the Jennette Brothers Inc. parking
lot). The 55-foot-long vessel was built as an oyster boat in
1888 by George Washington Creef Jr. of Nags Head. Creef
constructed the vessel of heart pine logs that had washed
ashore from a wrecked ship. He named it for his daughter,
Hattie. Over her long life, the
Hattie Creef
would become a fishing boat, a mail boat, a passenger and
freight vessel, a tug boat, a crabber, and a pleasure
cruiser on the Dismal Swamp Canal. Her most famous
passengers were Orville and Wilbur Wright, the
Ohio brothers
who invented the first powered aircraft. In her retirement
years, the Hattie
Creef, was sunk in the
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The Hattie Creef sails the Pasquotank River. The
Woodley Grocery Company, the Burgess Street Wharf, and
the old train yard are shown in the background. This is
the location where the steamer Annie blew up in 1918. |
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