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The Croatan Sound, for instance, lies between mainland Dare County and Roanoke Island. The water bordering the eastern shore of the island to the Outer Banks is commonly referred to as Roanoke Sound (this is also a historical name for the entire body of water now known as Albemarle Sound [1] [2]). The long stretch of water from near the ...
The Dismal Swamp Canal is one of two inland routes connecting the Chesapeake Bay and the Albemarle Sound. About 2,000 recreational boaters transit the canal each year as they pass through the Intracoastal Waterway. The canal was closed to boating traffic in October 2016 after Hurricane Matthew caused a flash flood in Chesapeake, Virginia. The ...
The Battle of Albemarle Sound was an inconclusive naval battle fought in May 1864 along the coast of North Carolina during the American Civil War. [1] Three Confederate warships, including an ironclad , engaged eight Union gunboats .
The Blackwater River was an exception. It flowed south to Albemarle Sound. The Blackwater's headwaters were close to the main settlements along the James River (some within three miles). By the early 18th century, Virginians were living along the upper Blackwater River and using the river for travel and transportation.
Albemarle Sound • average: 619.03 cu ft/s (17.529 m 3 /s) at mouth with Albemarle Sound [6] Basin features; Progression: North: River system: Albemarle Sound: Tributaries • left: New Lake Fork Northwest Fork Gum Neck Creek Goose Creek Second Creek Little Alligator River • right: Swan Creek Whipping Creek Milltail Creek
Pettigrew State Park surrounds Lake Phelps, North Carolina's second largest natural made lake. [3] The lake, on a peninsula between Albemarle Sound and the Pamlico River, is one of a series of Carolina bay lakes that stretch from New Jersey to Florida along the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
Lake Phelps is North Carolina's second largest natural lake. It has a surface area of 16,600 acres (67 km 2), [2] and is located primarily in Washington County on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula between the Albemarle Sound and the Pamlico Sound.
The boat type is named after the shad which was the type of fish caught from the boats. The Ella View was built in 1883 by George Washington Creef. Shad boat built by Alvirah Wright in 1904. Located in the Museum of the Albemarle. Initially, the shad boat had a round-bottomed hull and single mast rigged with a sprit sail.