Island Farm Timeline

An Etheridge family reunion is held at the homeplace.

Restoration work begins on the Etheridge farmhouse

A researcher is hired to document the timeline of the Etheridge Homeplace and family history.

OBC begins the process of assessing and identifying the original portions of the farmhouse.

The Etheridge Homeplace is officially donated to Outer Banks Conservationists by descendants.

The Etheridge Cemetery adjoining the Etheridge Homeplace property is deeded to OBC.

Etheridge descendants convince the developer, who now owns the homeplace, to sell the historic farmhouse and surrounding ½ acre to them.

Etheridge Homeplace is sold to a developer who planned to build a large condominium project. This is the first time that the homeplace was owned by someone other than an Etheridge in more than a century.

Richard Etheridge, son of John B. Etheridge and brother of Adam Etheridge IV, becomes the keeper of the first all African-American life-saving station.

Adam Etheridge IV dies.