Stacy is a very small fishing community
that is home to about three hundred five people, two churches, one post
office, a school, and a cemetery. The school is not there anymore. There
are lots of marsh. Although there are not many newcomers the majority of
the people are friendly.
This community was named by Dr. William T. Paul
in the seventeen hundreds. Stacy is made up of two communities: Masontown
and Piney Point. Masontown was named after the Mason family and Piney Point
was named for all the pines. The down east directions to Stacy are "around
the ridge" or "through the swamp."
The two churches in Stacy are the Free Will Baptist
Church and the United Methodist Church. The Free Will Baptist Church has
been in Stacy for more than two hundred years. Malcey Gaskill gave the
land for the church to be built on. In 1955, Reverend Louie Lewis founded
the United Methodist Church. Both churches are made mostly of bricks.
The first postmasters were Martha and Alonzo Lewis.
They were postmasters for twelve years in a row. The post office was located
near where the fire department is now or "through the swamp." This post
office was opened in 1885. Later, it was moved into one half of a store
owned by Ralph Nelson.
A school was opened in Stacy in 1925. It had
grades one through seven because there was no kindergarten. There was a
ball park on school grounds. It was closed before the school was demolished.
After that there were several other ball parks in different locations.
The cemetery is over three hundred years old. A
long time ago before the cemetery was here there were no roads. People
had to travel everywhere by boat. Later there were sand roads and wooden
bridges. In 1927, two years after the school was built, roads were paved
and boats were only used to go to the beach or somewhere that had no roads.
Stacy was one of the first communities in Carteret
County. I think it is very special and I wouldn't want to live anywhere
else.
