Once an important Outer Banks shipping settlement, Portsmouth declined after hurricanes, shifting inlets, war, and isolation undermined the village. Its final residents left in 1971, leaving a collection of preserved houses, church, post office, and other structures on a remote island reached by boat. NPS: https://www.nps.gov/calo/learn/historyculture/portsmouth.htm
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Atlas Obscura