NE shore of Roanoke Island, E Dare County. The remains of the earthen fort, constructed in 1585 by Ralph Lane's colony, were reconstructed in 1950 by the National Park Service after extensive archaeological study. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. The Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and the Waterside Theatre—at which Paul Green's symphonic drama, The Lost Colony, has been presented in the summer since 1937—are there. An Elizabethan Garden maintained by the Garden Club of North Carolina and a museum are also nearby.

See Blowing Rock.

stream, rises in W Greene County and flows NE into Contentnea Creek. Named because an early eighteenth-century Tuscarora Indian fort was located nearby. John Lawson was killed near the head of the stream in 1711.

former fort on the beach of Oak Island in SE Brunswick County. Used to protect Confederate blockade-runners moving in close to shore.

See Brunswick.

Civil War fort, site 5 mi. SE of New Bern on Neuse River in Craven County.

one of the forts built around New Bern by Union forces after they took the town in March 1862. Located in S central Craven County.

the westernmost of a small group of islands in Core Sound about 3 mi. SE of community of Davis, SE Carteret County.

rises in SW Hyde County near Beulah and flows NW into Pungo River.

community in SW Watauga County on Watauga River. Alt. 2,969.