Wash Woods, was a small town on the Outer Banks of Virginia. The was abandoned in the 1930′s, and all that remains now is a church steeple and the cemetery. The urban legend states that Wash Woods was a town of survivors of shipwrecks offshore in the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” and these survivors built their town from the cargo and wreckage of ships that sank near by, in all actuality Wash Woods was a town of fisherman and farmers that also supported the Wash Woods lifesaving station to the South.
The path to Wash Woods Steeple in distance
Another Steeple shot
Steeple in perspective of surrounding trees
Mary E. Waterfield Died January 10 1933
Mamie Bunch Died July 11 1909
G.L. Newbern Died Oct 12 1906
Zina Pallette Died March 17 1922
Fred Lee Pallett Died March 27th 1917
Derwood Ewell This one almost looked fake, there is also a foot stone as show in the following picture, and you can see that Derwood was a child.
Della Waterfield Died February 28 1900
Rosa Stevens Died October 23 1918
Ellington Newbern Died July 1899
This was interesting in that these are the only graves that are fenced off…
The steeple from th
e Cemetery…