Inlets

How many inlets have existed along the Outer Banks of North Carolina? Here is a partial list (of existing and historic inlets), beginning at the north (source, Place Names of the Outer Banks by Roger L. Payne):

1. Currituck
2. New Currituck
3. Musketo
4. Caffey's
5. Trinitie
6. Roanoke
7. Gunt
8. Oregon
9. New
10. Chickinacommock
11. Chaneandepeco
12. Hatteras
13. Old Hatteras
14. Wells Creek
15. Ocracoke
16. Whalebone
17. Swash
18. Sand Island
19. Old Drum
20. Drum
21. Cedar
22. Old Drum 
23. Barden
24. Beaufort
25. Cheeseman
26. Bogue

The number of inlets, and their changing locations, attest to the dynamic nature of these fragile barrier islands.

This month's Ocracoke Newsletter is an article about one of the early July 4th Parades written by Alice Rondthaler in 1953. It is accompanied by vintage photos.You can read the Newsletter here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news062116.htm.