Description Pamlico Sound is one of the most storied bodies of water among North Carolina\'s Outer Banks.
Said to be capable of mounting fifty guns, the Fort was part of the coastal defense sy.
It wasn\'t a surprise, then, that the Confederate bastion of Fort Ocracoke was built in those same waters.
Blackbeard the pirate was killed there in 1718, and General Washington relied on it for transportation in the Revolutionary War.
Early colonists to Roanoke Island used it for protection.
Description Pamlico Sound is one of the most storied bodies of water among North Carolina\'s Outer Banks