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Beaufort (pronounced "Bo-furt") is the third-oldest Anglo-European town in North Carolina, after Bath and New Bern. It is the site of the North Carolina Maritime Museum, the official repository for all the artifacts discovered on the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Displays include seashells from around the world, with 5,000 specimens from more than ...
Beaufort (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t / BOH-fərt, different from that of Beaufort, South Carolina) [4] is a town in and the county seat of Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. [5] Established in 1713 and incorporated in 1723, Beaufort is the fourth oldest town in North Carolina (after Bath , New Bern and Edenton ).
Beaufort County, North Carolina; List of census-designated places in North Carolina; List of counties in North Carolina; File talk:Map of North Carolina highlighting Beaufort County.svg; Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Beaufort County, North Carolina
Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula is a large peninsula (about 3,200 square miles) on the North Carolina coast, lying between the Albemarle Sound to the north and the Pamlico Sound to the south. The 5 counties of Dare, Hyde, Beaufort, Tyrrell, and Washington all lie wholly or partly on the peninsula. Much of the peninsula is covered with marshland.
The 996-gross register ton and 203-foot (62 m) long steamer headed from New York to the Pacific Coast for Tacoma to Alaska service. Leaking, she stopped for repairs at Newport News, Virginia where she was deemed seaworthy. She developed catastrophic leaks and sank 110 nautical miles (200 km; 130 mi) off North Carolina. The use of radio to ...
Cape Lookout National Seashore preserves a 56-mile (90-km) long section of the Southern Outer Banks, or Crystal Coast, of North Carolina, United States, running from Ocracoke Inlet on the northeast to Beaufort Inlet on the southwest. Three undeveloped barrier islands make up the seashore - North and South Core Banks and Shackleford Banks.
Fort Macon's purpose was to guard Beaufort Inlet and Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina's only major deepwater ocean port. Named after a U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina, Nathaniel Macon, who procured the funds to build the facility, Fort Macon was designed by Brig. Gen. Simon Bernard and built by the US Army Corps of Engineers ...
Beaufort County (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t / BOH-fərt) is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,652. [1] Its county seat is Washington. [2] The county was founded in 1705 as Pamptecough Precinct. Originally included in Bath County, it was renamed Beaufort Precinct in 1712 and became ...