History of Stumpy Point: Village in the Wilderness

The village of Stumpy Point is surrounded by water and the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. Its wilderness location has influenced the history of the village, making it unique in character in comparison to the other villages and towns along the Inner and Outer Banks of North Carolina. Author Harold Lee Wise wrote this oral history-based story and has given the work as a gift to Stumpy Point Civic Club so that it may use the royalties to fund community-building projects such as Community Thanksgiving and providing scholarships to the village's young people.

Harold Lee Wise, a Stumpy Point native, is a frequent contributor to military history encyclopedias. He also is the author of Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-88, Naval Institute Press, 2007.