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Welcome to Duck's Cottage - the most unique coffeeshop and most interesting bookstore on North Carolina's Outer Banks! You've read about us in The Washington Post and The New York Times. We hope you've visited us while vacationing in Duck, NC. Perhaps you've enjoyed a cup of our world-famous Coconut Crunch coffee or spent an afternoon exploring our wide and varied selection of books. Whether you are a java junkie or bookworm, you'll be delighted to know that Duck's Cottage is now on-line!
Need a quick fix of our custom Village Blend coffee? Let us ship you a pound - whole bean or ground? Forget to pick up that perfect souvenir? How about a copy of Pure Sea Glass or the Outer Banks Edge to leaf through this winter? We're the coolest place to sit and watch the world go by… and now we're doing it on the web!
Duck's Cottage opened on July 22, 2002 but before the Mucky Duck started making
history, our building enjoyed a long and storied past as the first, and only,
gun club in Duck. Built as the Powder Ridge Gun Club in the early 1920's by
a group of New York sportsmen, visitors availed themselves of the plentiful
array of waterfowl from whence the town took its name.
Several old pictures
of the building, in addition to its sign, have been given to us and show the
Cottage when it still stood on the point several hundred feet from our current
location. In one, the Club's distinctive crossed whale bones can still be seen
on the peak of the home.
Managed by Lewis Scarborough, a village native and
life-long resident, most hunting was done from battery rigs and shoal brush
blinds. The Club fell into private hands in the forties and remained a private
residence until 2001. Its last inhabitant, 'Duck' Braithwaite, was a Duck legend
and many early comers to Duck have memories of pleasant sunset cocktail hours
spent with he and his wife, Betty, on 'Duck's Porch'.
While the business Duck's
Cottage is owned by partners Allen Lehew and John Power, the building still
remains in the ownership of Duck and Betty's sons, Jimmy and Bill Braithwaite.
