Bogue Banks
Bogue Banks form a 21-mile (34 km)
NC 58 traverses a majority of the island's length. There are several hotels that dot the island, but most of the land contains private houses, some of which are rented out during the summer, or maritime forest
. Stores and other commercial properties are limited to the five main communities.
History
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During a survey titled "The Greater Beaufort Area at 1800" completed by the North Carolina State College, or present-day
place names for the area surrounding Beaufort. The School of Design delineators were; L. B. Askew Jr., W. M. Coble and E. H. Williams Jr. and show the place name of present-day Bogue Banks as Bordens Banks with the present-day inlet near Beaufort, North Carolina as Topsail Inlet. Also represented is the present-day location of Morehead City, North Carolina
, known in 1800 as Shepard's Point, which was owned by the Shepards Point Land Company.
Salter Path
The decline in the
Salter Path is believed to be named after Owen Salter or possibly Riley Salter although Riley Salter’s true whereabouts during the 1880s has been questioned by historians and native Bogue Bankers. Schools of mullet that ran close to the ocean shorelines were the prime catch for many of the natives. These fishermen would quickly tramp from the sound to the ocean, wearing a path in front of a Salter household, hence the name Salter Path. Many of the families who moved to Salter Path in the late 19th century and early 20th century established their residences without deeds before Bostonian John A. Royall purchased Salter Path and 8,000 acres on Bogue Banks in 1910. Royall acquired nearly two thirds of the Island. (8,000 acres). The area of Salter Path subsequently became known as a squatters'
community until Royall later provided deeds to any of the families on Salter Path who had an actual structure. Royall and his wife, Agatha Freeman Royall, helped the Salter Path families establish a school and a church for their community.
John Royall built a house on the island known as Pine Court. Royall was a conservationist and steward to the natural beauty of the island In addition to the main house, Royall built a physician’s cottage (later renovated and leased to Alice Green Hoffman) and a Tea House on the ocean side of the island now a popular look-out.
In 1923, John A. Royall sold 2,000 acres of his property to Alice Green Hoffman, a distant relative of
taxes on the former squatter’s village.[2]
Points of interest
The Emerald Isle
Pine Knoll Shores in the middle of the island. Surrounding the aquarium is the Theodore Roosevelt Natural Area, a 265-acre (1.07 km2) maritime forest owned, maintained and protected by the state. It is one of the few remaining maritime forests on North Carolina's barrier islands. A historic marker stands at the corner of N.C. 58 and Pine Knoll Boulevard (at mile marker 7), noting the spot of the first landing of Europeans on the North Carolina coast. Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine navigator in the service of France, explored the state's coast from Cape Fear to Kitty Hawk in 1524. His voyage along the coast marked the first recorded European contact with what is now North Carolina.[5]
Communities
The island is located in Morehead Township and White Oak Township. The following are communities on Bogue Banks:
Surrounding waters
- Onslow Bay (Atlantic Ocean) - south
- Bogue Sound (Intracoastal Waterway) - north
- Bogue Inlet - west
- Beaufort Inlet - east
- White Oak River - northwest
- Newport River - northeast
Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier
The Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier, located on the western end of the Bogue Banks is one of the only fishing piers left on the island. In 2006, a beachfront development company applied to purchase the pier's land for the construction of
to stop demolition of the pier.References
- ^ Orrin H. Pilkey, The North Carolina Shore and its Barrier Islands: restless ribbons of sand 1998:161
- ^ "Carteret County Shore Protection Office - WWW . PROTECT THE BEACH . COM". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- ^ David S. Cecelski, A Historian's Coast: adventures into the Tidewater past, "Elliott Coues, a naturalist at Fort Macon", 2000:49ff; Coues' unique faunal catalogue, "Notes on the natural history of Fort Macon, N.C. and vicinity", in five sections, was published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
- ^ David M. Bush, Orrin H. Pilkey and William J. Neal, Living by the Rules of the Sea 1996:151.
- ^ "OV Bogue Banks2 - Bogue Banks including Atlantic Beach, Pine Knoll Shores and Indian Beach Area Overviews | NC's Central Coast | Insiders' Guide". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- ^ newsobserver.com |At the Beach - Emerald Isle wants to save Bogue Inlet pier Archived November 17, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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