The Beautiful Island Called Harkers Island, North Carolina (THE GATEWAY TO CAPE LOOKOUT LIGHTHOUSE)

Vacationers who want to experience a slice of authentic “Down East” culture will want to visit picturesque Harker’s Island. Located just east of the town of Beaufort and the Crystal Coast beaches, this small coastal community has retained its small-town charm throughout the centuries, and is a popular destination for fishermen, mariners, and anyone who appreciates a slower pace of life. Core Sound begins at the mouth side of the North River. East of the river, the region called "Down East" is bounded by Harkers Island on the south and Cedar Island on the north. The Coree Indians lived on the Core Sound mainland and fished and hunted on Cape Lookout and Core Banks islands (part of what is known as the Outer Banks, a chain of barrier islands). In 1713, when Enoch Ward and John Shackleford bought 7,000 acres of the Banks, permanent settlement by whites began. New England whalers came to stay in the 1720s. Harkers Island is named after one of them, Ebenezer Harker. "Bankers" hunted whales in harpoon boats launched from the beach. They fished for mullet, salted it, and shipped it to distant ports. The village of Portsmouth, at the northern tip of Core Banks, had become the largest settlement on the entire Outer Banks by 1770. By 1890, Diamond City, a community of fishing families, occupied over half of Shackleford Banks. In 1899, a massive hurricane roared across the islands, flooding homes and sweeping away livestock as well as the Bankers' will to stay. They moved their homes, board by board or in large pieces lashed to skiffs. Within a few years, Core and Shackleford Banks were deserted, but their memory remains in the minds of many of their descendants, who now live in small Down East communities such as Bettie, Otway, Smyrna, Marshallberg, Gloucester, Davis Shore, Stacy, Sea Level, Atlantic, Cedar Island, and Harkers Island, as well as Beaufort, Bogue Banks, and Morehead. Many Down Easterners keep that memory alive through carving wooden decoys, intricately knotting fishing nets, and carefully crafting boats as their ancestors did. To See More of Somewhere Up A Creek Videos, Fishing Comedy, and Travel please Like, Subscribe and Comment to our channel. We would love to have you become a part of our enjoyable world here on Youtube. Thank you for watching and God Bless You! Music Credits; Long Road Ahead by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/