Cape Lookout Bight has always been home to fishing through all of documented history. Menhaden, Mullet, Shad, Turtles, Bottlenose Dolphin, and many other fish varieties were harvested. “Core Banks estimated 7,000 years old“–researchers Dr. Duncan Heron and Thomas Moslow (geologists for the Park Service) determined the Cape’s age from carbon dating. Cape Lookout was thought… Read more

“….because of the closeness to the sea, this has been a town where water, fishing and shipbuilding influenced the people and architecture of the town…Fishing was the town’s and also the county’s chief economy..  In early days of settlement, Beaufort was known as “FishTown” and earlier as “Hungry Town” because of the poor living conditions… Read more

The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum hosted this reunion of Coast Guardsmen as part of the museum mission for the preservation and the sharing of the story of Core Banks and the Downeast cultural history. Over clam chowder and chili, Guardsmen had the opportunity to share their memories of service with one another. From the first… Read more