Buxton
Unincorporated community in North CarolinaWikipedia
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Oct 14, 2026
Colin BrowenHOST
Over time, pieces of the wreckage washed up on Hatteras Island, and local residents used this wood to help construct local homes.
Colin BrowenHOST
On April 11th, 1921, a local fisherman reported finding a message in a bottle drifting near the beach at Buxton, North Carolina, and handed it over to the authorities.
Colin BrowenHOST
The message read, "Deering captured by oil-burning boat, something like chaser.
Colin BrowenHOST
Taking off everything, handcuffing crew.
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As the ocean encroaches, many houses get damaged and become uninhabitable, settling owners with high bills and no income at the very moment they need cash to prevent their homes from collapsing.
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Michael McDaniel is in that situation with his house in Buxton, North Carolina, nicknamed the Sea Star.
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He purchased it for about $500,000 in 2011 when he retired from the Navy and he planned to eventually...
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How did you make that much money in the Navy?
Anisa KhalifaHOST
In it, he reports on the big challenges that many small towns are facing across the state.
Anisa KhalifaHOST
And on a recent trip to a place called Buxton on the Carolina coast, Colin found a community facing an existential problem.
Colin CampbellGUEST
Buxton is, uh, technically not even an incorporated town, so they don't have a mayor.
Colin CampbellGUEST
Uh, it's more of a sort of coastal beach village on the Outer Banks.
Colin CampbellGUEST
Uh, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is there, so that's sort of the, the tourist attraction that most people who've been there have probably been there for.
Anisa KhalifaHOST
Buxton is a beautiful and isolated place.
Anisa KhalifaHOST
It's on Hatteras Island, which is essentially a narrow spit of sand at the end of the Outer Banks.
Anisa KhalifaHOST
Highway 12 stops there, and its location, jutting about 30 miles out from the mainland, presents a challenge: extreme beach erosion, something Colin saw firsthand when he visited the island earlier this year.
JadenHOST
But it, it did help them.
JadenHOST
And then number two is Rodanthe and Buxton, North Carolina.
JadenHOST
So that is the Outer Banks of North Carolina, just so you know.
JadenHOST
Um, I didn't know.
Hillbilly GrahamHOST
The Charm Farm workaround?
JT MalusGUEST
Hey, I'm JT Malus from Hatteras Island in Buxton, North Carolina.
JT MalusGUEST
I met Mike, I don't know, it's been a long time ago, through our mutual friend Chip Chase up in Kinane.
JT MalusGUEST
And we were going to his farmer's market up when he had it up in Davis.