For many years before the war, Currituck Sound was a busy avenue of commerce sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Outer Banks. Vessels carried produce and goods between North Carolina and Virginia. After hostilities began, the sound became . . . — — Map (db m56980) HM
“Currituck” is from the Algonkian word meaning “land of the wild goose.”Currituck Sound is located in Currituck and Dare Counties in Northeast North Carolina.
Currituck Sound, a brackish water estuary separated from the . . . — — Map (db m257087) HM
Thursday the 31st December 1767
"On motion the following Bills were ordered to be read ... A Bill to impower the justices of Currituck County to build a prison pillary and stocks in the said county on the lot were the Court House stands for the . . . — — Map (db m9468) HM
The town of Currituck has been the seat of county government since 1723, and the core of the courthouse to your right and jail in front of you were here before the Civil War. By 1860, the county had 7,415 residents, of whom 4,669 were white, . . . — — Map (db m276262) HM
Currituck County played a vital role in a prisoner-of-war escape in 1863. At 1:30 P.M. on June 10, the troop-transport steamer Maple Leaf sailed from Fort Monroe, Va., for Fort Delaware, carrying 97 captured Confederate officers bound for . . . — — Map (db m56981) HM
Indiantown, a commercial center with a shipyard, store, and mill, became a focal point for military activity during the Civil War. On June 10, 1862, U.S. Navy Lt. Charles W. Flusser led several gunboats up the North River to capture a prominent . . . — — Map (db m56814) HM
Currituck Outer Bankers depended on the land and the water for their livelihoods. Besides waterfowl hunting and fishing, the Sound provided an important transportation route to and from the Currituck mainland and up and down the Banks. The first . . . — — Map (db m91802) HM
Member N.C. Assembly and U.S. Congress. Confederate colonel. Killed in attack on New Bern, Feb. 1, 1864. Home & grave about 150 feet West. — — Map (db m9507) HM
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This monument honors
Patriots who assembled
at this site in the Cause of
American Freedom in 1775
American Patriots
at the Battle
Second Virginia Regiment
Commanded by
Colonel William Woodford,
of . . . — — Map (db m211239) HM
Preached first Methodist sermon in colony, 1772, at Currituck Courthouse. Pilmoor Memorial Methodist Church is near the site. About 300 ft. north. — — Map (db m2763) HM
"The Grand Old Man Of North Carolina"
Captain, 8th North Carolina, CSA
Lt. Governor & Governor of North Carolina
U.S. Ambassador to Brazil
U.S. Senator
The Father of East Carolina University In life he embodied the motto
of the . . . — — Map (db m66885) HM
