A small monument marks the area where the “Gentleman Pirate” Stede Bonnet and members of his crew were executed in 1718. Bonnet’s strange career—from wealthy plantation owner to inept pirate associate of Blackbeard—makes the quiet waterfront location unusually rich in pirate history.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Atlas Obscura