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Currituck County

9 places on the trail: 9 highway markers.

Exploration and settlement (4)Government and law (4)Roads, rivers and rails (2)Native nations (1)Faith and congregations (1)The Civil War (1)

Colonial North Carolina, 1585-1774

A-15DIVIDING LINECommissioners drove the first stake for the Virginia-Carolina boundary, Mar. 18, 1728, three miles N.E., across Currituc...
A-16DIVIDING LINEIn 1728 the Virginia-Carolina boundary was first surveyed from the Atlantic coast to a spot two hundred twenty miles wes...
A-59JOSEPH PILMOORPioneer missionary. He preached first Methodist sermon in colony, 1772, at Currituck Courthouse, 300 ft. N. Church named...
A-47YEOPIMReservation established for Yeopim Indians in 1704; sold after 1739. Northern boundary nearby; village was 2 miles S.E.

The young state, 1790-1860

A-76ALBEMARLE AND CHESAPEAKE CANALConstructed 1855-59 by steam dredges to assist commerce. Now part of Intracoastal Waterway. N.C. Cut 5 miles long.

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

A-62HENRY M. SHAWMember of N.C. Assembly and U.S. Congress. Confederate colonel. Killed in attack on New Bern, Feb. 1, 1864. Home & grave...

The New South, 1878-1929

Battlefields, sites and undated markers

A-66McKNIGHT'S SHIPYARDThomas McKnight, colonial merchant and legislator; Loyalist during Revolution. Operated large shipyard which stood near ...