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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GLT_bogue-sound-blockhouse_Newport-NC.html
Company K, 9th New Jersey Volunteers, built the Bogue Sound Blockhouse here in the summer of 1862 to guard the junction of the Bogue Sound Road and Newport Road. Protected by a surrounding ditch and earthworks, the log blockhouse was armed with on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GLL_bogue-banks-lighthouse_Atlantic-Beach-NC.html
In order to promote safe navigation of shipping through Beaufort Inlet past numerous shoals and sand bars, the US Lighthouse Board established the Bogue Banks Lighthouse and a navigational beacon on the eastern end of Bogue Banks near Fort Macon …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GLI_fort-macon-coast-guard-station_Atlantic-Beach-NC.html
Fort Macon Life-Saving Station
In 1903, the US War Department approved a request from the US Treasury Department to establish a US Life-Saving Service station on the Fort Macon Military Reservation. In 1904 a wood frame hip-roofed station house a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GL9_world-war-ii-defenses_Atlantic-Beach-NC.html
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, US Coast Artillery troops occupied Fort Macon State Park for the defense of strategic points in the Beaufort Inlet-Cape Lookout area.
In the sand dunes southwest of the fort, artillery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GL8_world-war-ii-barracks-area_Atlantic-Beach-NC.html
A Military City
During World War II (1941-1945) the US Army occupied Fort Macon once again for military defense. Although some soldiers lived and worked inside the fort itself, the area outside the fort once again came to life as a small militar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GL7_fort-macon-in-the-1920s-and-1930s_Atlantic-Beach-NC.html
Fort Macon became a state park in 1924. At that time, the fort was all that remained of the military post. All other traces of the Army presence from the 19th century were gone.
The fort itself, and a US Lifesaving Service (later Coast Guard) Sta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GL5_officers-quarters-at-fort-macon_Atlantic-Beach-NC.html
Following the end of the War Between the States Fort Macon returned to its peacetime status as one of the US Army military posts. During the last half of the 1860s a lack of suitable quarters for officers and their families became a serious concer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GL0_the-military-post-of-fort-macon-in-the-nineteenth-century_Atlantic-Beach-NC.html
If you could go back in time to the years of the last half of the Nineteenth Century you would find this area looked quite a bit different than it does today. The area around Fort Macon was cleared of any vegetation. The fort itself was only one b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GKZ_30-pounder-parrott-rifle_Atlantic-Beach-NC.html
This cannon is a replica of a 30-pounder Parrott Rifle, one of the most widely used siege cannons in the War Between the States. Invented by Robert P. Parrott in 1861, the 30-pounder Parrott Rifle quickly became one of the Union Army standard sieg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GKM_ss-pevensey_Pine-Knoll-Shores-NC.html
Blockade runner, iron steamer, chased ashore by Union ship, June 9, 1864. Remains lie off-shore, 220 yards SE.