or why Blackbeard's House wasn't Blackbeard's House
By John B. Green III
|Simpson-Oaksmith House, photo c. 1890.|
|Blackbeard's wives (actually two lions and a Greek goddess)|
|Simpson-Oaksmith House, photo dated 1884.|
|Simpson-Oaksmith House, photo ca. 1900.|
|Handbill advertizing the Vance Academy, c. 1889-1891.|
|Simpson-Oaksmith House, March 1971|
But what about Blackbeard and his treasure and his wives and his tunnels?
Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach or Thatch, was killed near Ocracoke Island, North Carolina on November 22, 1718 or at least ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE years before the Simpson-Oaksmith House was built. And that's why Blackbeard's House wasn't Blackbeard's House!