Topics Related to Carteret County

Core Sound Meeting (C-35)

Quaker center for more than 100 yrs. after 1733. Migration west was one cause of decline. Meeting house was 50 yards W.

Cape Lookout Lighthouse (C-24)

Constructed, 1857-1859, to replace the original 1812 tower. The present lighthouse, standing 150 feet tall, is 4 miles S.

Whale Fishery (C-21)

At Shackleford Banks, six miles southeast by boat, was located a whale fishery of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Salt Works (C-13)

Est. in 1776 by order of N.C. Provincial Congress to help Patriot Army preserve foodstuffs. It stood 1 ½ miles east.

Fort Macon (C-9)

Built 1826-34 to protect Beaufort Inlet. Replaced Fort Hampton. State park. 5 1/2 miles southeast.

Spanish Attack (C-8)

Spanish force landed and captured Beaufort, 1747. Driven away a few days later by local troops.

Ocracoke Inlet (C-4)

Once chief trade inlet of N.C. In 1718 pirate "Blackbeard" was killed near there, 17 mi. N.E., across Pamlico Sound.