On June 17th

The June 17, 1876 battle is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Rosebud'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. It remains the site's standing claim.

In summer 1999, engineers slid the 4,830-ton Cape Hatteras Lighthouse 2,900 feet inland on steel rails — the 'move of the century' — to escape beach erosion that had put the surf at its base. It took 23 days at a few feet per move and saved the tallest brick lighthouse in America from becoming a dive site; the old foundation pad still marks the shoreline.