Carteret County
30 places on the trail: 28 highway markers, 2 battlefields and state sites.
Before 1585
Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774
- C-35CORE SOUND MEETINGQuaker center for more than 100 yrs. after 1733. Migration west was one cause of decline. Meeting house was 50 yards W.
- C-4OCRACOKE INLETOnce chief trade inlet of N.C. In 1718 pirate "Blackbeard" was killed near there, 17 mi. N.E., across Pamlico Sound.
- C-43OLD BURYING GROUNDDeeded to town, 1731, by Nathanael Taylor. Capt. Otway Burns of the War of 1812, Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers ar...
- C-86QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGEFlagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard. Ran aground and abandoned offshore, June 1718. Remains are 1 1/2 mi. SW.
- C-8SPANISH ATTACKSpanish force landed and captured Beaufort, 1747. Driven away a few days later by local troops.
Revolution and founding, 1775-1789
The young state, 1790-1860
- C-24CAPE LOOKOUT LIGHTHOUSEConstructed, 1857-1859, to replace the original 1812 tower. The present lighthouse, standing 150 feet tall, is 4 miles S...
- C-9FORT MACONBuilt 1826-34 to protect Beaufort Inlet. Replaced Fort Hampton. State park. 5 1/2 miles southeast.
- CCC-1FORT MACONBuilt by U.S. Corps of Engineers, 1826-34. Good example of brick fort. Seized by Confederates, April 14, 1861. Scene of ...
- C-83JACOB HENRY ca. 1775-1847First Jewish member of N.C. legislature, 1808. Delivered a landmark address on religious freedom. Lived here.
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- C-75CAROLINA CITYUnion occupied the town March 22, 1862, & used this area in staging the Fort Macon campaign. Union camps remained in vic...
- C-49CONFEDERATE SALT WORKSThe largest Confederate salt works in Carteret County was 50 yards S. It was burned by Union forces in April, 1862.
- C-62HOOP POLE CREEKUnion forces led by General John G. Parke landed here, March 29, 1862, during the Fort Macon campaign.
- C-57NEWPORT BARRACKSCommand post for Union defense system from New Bern to Morehead City, 1862-1865. Was 1/3 mi. E.
- CC-3SIEGE OF FORT MACON
- C-77SS PEVENSEYBlockade runner, iron steamer, chased ashore by Union ship, June 9, 1864. Remains lie offshore, 220 yards SE.
- C-58UNION ARTILLERYUnion artillery was placed in this area during the siege of Fort Macon, March 23-April 26, 1862.
The New South, 1878-1929
- C-56ATLANTIC HOTELA prominent resort hotel opened June 21, 1880, and visited by citizens from N.Y. to Ga. Burned April 15, 1933. Stood her...
- C-63CAMP GLENNNational Guard camp, 1906-1918; later site of U.S. Navy base, and first U.S. Coast Guard air station, 1920-1921.
- C-69MARINE RESEARCHThe marine environment in this vicinity has long attracted researchers. In the 1880s Johns Hopkins University operated a...
- C-76N. C. STATE HIGHWAY PATROLEst. 1929 in response to increased traffic & accidents. First training school was held here; graduated 27 officers.
- C-48NORTH CAROLINA BANKERS ASSOCIATIONOrganized at Teachers’ Assembly Hall, nearby, July 24, 1897. Thomas Battle, first president.
- C-85NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL GUARDMilitia Act formed the National Guard in 1903. First N.C. encampment held at Camp Rodman nearby, July 22-28.
- C-40TEACHER'S ASSEMBLY (NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION ASSN.)Headquarters and annual meeting-place, 1888-1900; razed 1934. The building stood here.
Modern North Carolina, 1930 on
Battlefields, sites and undated markers
- BattleFORT MACONIn late March, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's army advanced on Fort Macon, a third system casemated masonry fort that c...
- SiteNORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM (BEAUFORT)Maritime history, transportation.
- C-21WHALE FISHERYAt Shackleford Banks, six miles southeast by boat, was located a whale fishery of the 18th and 19th centuries.