October 11
2019: Beaufort High School defeats Bluffton, 35-24, at home to give Eagles Head Football Coach Bruce Lybrand his first win as a head coach.
October 12
1565: Jean Ribaut, the founder of Charlesfort on Parris Island and a Huguenot (French Protestant), is captured and killed by the Spaniards at the Massacre of Matanzas Inlet near St. Augustine in what is now Florida.
1935: John M. Trask, Jr. is born in Wilmington, N.C., to John M. Trask Sr. and Flora Graham Trask. He worked in the family farming business on St. Helena Island, chartered First Carolina Bank and served as Associate Administrator for Finance and Investment in the Small Business Administration during the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1979. In 1971, he partnered with Marguerite Broz and Betty Waskiewicz to form the Beaufort County Open Land Trust.
October 13
1862: Gen. Ormsby Mitchel announces plans for a dedicated freedmen’s village on Hilton Head Island. Mitchel would die Oct. 30, but the town of Mitchelville, named in his honor, would become the first self-governing freedmen’s town.
— Compiled by Mike McCombs
