The Big Freeze in Eastern North Carolina, 1917-1918

"The Big Freeze" by Bryan Mims, WRAL reporter writing for Our State magazine. For about 10 days, the end of 1917 and beginning of 1918, waters from the Great Dismal Swamp to the Outer Banks froze. To read the story, go to https://www.ourstate.com/big-freeze/. The article was posted online Jan. 6, 2014 with the following photograph from the North Carolina Museum of History.