Currituck
Albemarle And Chesapeake Canal
Constructed 1855-59 by steam dredges to assist commerce.
Dividing Line
Commissioners drove the first stake for the Virginia-Carolina boundary, Mar. 18, 1728, three miles N.E., across Currituck Sound.
Dividing Line
Moyock, NC
In 1728 the Virginia-Carolina boundary was first surveyed from the Atlantic coast to a spot two hundred twenty miles west of here.
Henry M. Shaw
Member of N.C. Assembly and U.S. Congress.
Joseph Pilmoor
Pioneer missionary. He preached first Methodist sermon in colony, 1772, at Currituck Courthouse, 300 ft. N. Church named for Pilmoor...
Mc KNIGHT'S SHIPYARD
Thomas McKnight, colonial merchant and legislator; Loyalist during Revolution.
Yeopim
Reservation established for Yeopim Indians in 1704; sold after 1739.