Union occupied the town March 22, 1862, & used this area in staging the Fort Macon campaign. Union camps remained in vicinity until 1865.
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Brig. Gen. Gabriel Rains and Col. George Rains, graduates of West Point, inventors of explosives for Confederacy. This was their boyhood home.
Community was founded here in 1863 as resettlement camp for formerly enslaved people. It was named for Horace James, U.S. Army Chaplain.
Union forces led by General John G. Parke landed here, March 29, 1862, during the Fort Macon campaign.
Union artillery was placed in this area during the siege of Fort Macon, March 23-April 26, 1862.
Command post for Union defense system from New Bern to Morehead City, 1862-1865. Was 1/3 mi. E.
Site of Union outpost captured by Confederate Generals Hoke & Pickett on February 1, 1864. The earthworks are 300 yards North.
The largest Confederate salt works in Carteret County was 50 yards S. It was burned by Union forces in April, 1862.
Deeded to town, 1731, by Nathanael Taylor. Capt. Otway Burns of the War of 1812, Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers are buried here.
Confederate 6-gun fort guarding the entrance to Bogue Inlet; burned by Union troops, Aug. 19, 1862. Remains, 1 mi. S.W.