NORTH CAROLINA LOOKOUTS
ENGELHARD
Hyde County
North Carolina Division of Forest Resources
North Carolina Division of Forest Resources
April 19, 1956: "Approximately 4,000 acres of woodlands were burned over in Hyde County Sunday afternoon and many thousands more would have gone up in smoke except heavy rains that followed gale winds which pushed the flames from the general area of the Engelhard State Fire Tower in a northeasterly direction towards Swan Lake for a distance of some four and one-half miles, according to S.A. Dowdell, district State Forester in Elizabeth City." (The Belhaven Pilot)