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Carteret County is situated along the central coast of North Carolina (figures 13.1 and 13.2). When Edward Earll visited in the 1880s, he observed:
Carteret County . . . is long and narrow. . . . Its shores are so frequently interrupted by bays, rivers, and creeks, and the whole country is so cut up by water-channels, that wagons are almost wholly dispensed with, and the communication between different sections is carried on by means of boats. (Earll 1884, 485)
Despite the addition of cars and bridges in the intervening years, Earll’s physical description of the county remains apt. It