Historic Albemarle Tour

Historic Albemarle Tour
Route information
Maintained by NCDOT
Existed	1975 (1975)–present
Location
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
Counties	Bertie, Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Washington

Highway system
Auto trails North Carolina Highway System Interstate US State Scenic

The Historic Albemarle Tour or Historic Albemarle Highway is a tour route located in northeastern North Carolina. The tour follows several U.S. and State highways in the seventeen county region, identifying historic sites and towns, marked with brown signs with the George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle coat of arms.

Route description

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras Village

The tour route is not a linear route, like most scenic routes, but a collection of several highways in the region. The following list are the component highways that make-up the tour route:

Highway	Route	Sites of Interest
US 13	Williamston–VA state line
US 17	Washington–VA state line
US 64	Williamston–Whalebone Junction
US 158	Barco–Whalebone Junction
US 258	NC 561–VA state line
US 264	Washington–Whalebone Junction
US 301	Halifax–VA state line
NC 11	Pitt-Martin county line–Murfreesboro
NC 32	NC 99–VA state line
NC 34	Barco–Sligo
NC 37	US 64–US 17
NC 92	US 264–NC 99/NC 306
NC 99	Pantego–NC 32
NC 168	Sligo–VA state line
NC 308	US 13–US 258/NC 561
NC 561	US 301–US 258

Sites

Aurora Fossil Museum
Bath, the oldest continuously inhabited town in North Carolina
Belhaven Memorial Museum, currently housed in Belhaven City Hall, in the town of Belhaven
Camden County Welcome Center, located on the Dismal Swamp Canal
Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station located in Rodanthe
Columbia
Corolla, location of the Currituck Beach Light
Edenton, former colonial capital of the Province of North Carolina
Elizabeth City
Frisco Native American Museum in Frisco, North Carolina
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras Village
Halifax, location of the Fourth Provincial Congress, which authorized the Halifax Resolves
Hertford
Hope Plantation, a restored antebellum plantation house near Windsor
Jackson
Museum of the Albemarle
North Carolina Aquariums with locations in Manteo, Fort Fisher, and Pine Knoll Shores
Ocracoke
Plymouth
Roanoke Island Festival Park in Manteo
Somerset Place, a restored antebellum plantation house near Creswell
Tarboro
Williamston
Windsor

History

The tour route was established in 1975 by the North Carolina General Assembly, which included designated highways, locations and signage. A 1977 act amended the original law to expand the list of designated highways and locations.^[1]^[2]

References

^ "NC Senate Bill 315: An act to designate certain major highways s Historic Albemarle Tours Highways" (PDF). Retrieved March 20, 2016.
^ "NC Senate Bill 409: An act to amend the Historic Albemarle Tour Highway Act" (PDF). Retrieved March 20, 2016.

External links

Historic Albemarle Tour

Authority control databases	VIAF

v t e Outer Banks of North Carolina and Virginia
Landforms	Bodie Island Knotts Island Monkey Island Mary Island Colington Island Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula Roanoke Island Pea Island Hatteras Island No Ache Island Cape Hatteras Shelly Island Ocracoke Island Beacon Island Portsmouth Island Core Banks Cape Lookout
Places	City of Virginia Beach Sandbridge Currituck County Knotts Island Carova Beach Corolla Dare County Duck Southern Shores Kitty Hawk Kill Devil Hills Colington Nags Head Whalebone Junction Manteo Wanchese Rodanthe Waves Salvo Avon Buxton Frisco Hatteras Hyde County Ocracoke Carteret County Portsmouth Cape Lookout Village
Waterways	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Bays Onslow Bay Raleigh Bay Back Bay Knotts Island Bay Sounds Currituck Sound Albemarle Sound Croatan Sound Roanoke Sound Pamlico Sound Core Sound Back Sound Inlets Oregon Inlet New Inlet Isabel Inlet Hatteras Inlet Ocracoke Inlet Drum Inlet Barden Inlet
Lighthouses	Currituck Beach Light Bodie Island Light Cape Hatteras Light Ocracoke Light Cape Lookout Light
Protected areas and wildlife	National Seashores Cape Hatteras National Seashore Cape Lookout National Seashore Wildlife Refuges Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge Currituck National Wildlife Refuge Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge State Parks False Cape State Park Jockey's Ridge State Park State Coastal Reserves Kitty Hawk Woods Buxton Woods Game Lands Currituck Banks Game Land Roanoke Island Marshes Game Land Buxton Woods Game Land Preserves Nags Head Woods Preserve Roanoke Island Marshes Preserve Museums, zoos, and institutes North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum University of North Carolina - Coastal Studies Institute Other Mountains-to-Sea Trail Pine Island Audubon Sanctuary Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Wright Brothers National Memorial Currituck Banks North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve Run Hill State Natural Area Wildlife Banker horse Red wolf
Transportation	Routes North Carolina Highway 12 North Carolina Highway 45 U.S. Highway 64 U.S. Highway 64 Bypass U.S. Highway 158 North Carolina Highway 345 North Carolina Highway 400 North Carolina Highway 615 Historic Albemarle Tour North Carolina Ferry System Bridges Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge Marc Basnight Bridge Herbert C. Bonner Bridge Wright Memorial Bridge William B. Umstead Bridge Washington Baum Bridge Melvin R. Daniels Bridge Rodanthe Bridge Mid-Currituck Bridge Captain Richard Etheridge Bridge Airports Dare County Regional Airport First Flight Airport Billy Mitchell Airport Ocracoke Island Airport
History	Events and places Pea Island Life-Saving Station Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Roanoke Colony Graveyard of the Atlantic Torpedo Alley Battle of the Atlantic Hatteras Weather Bureau Station Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island People Roanoke people Croatan Wanchese Manteo John White Richard Grenville Blackbeard Raleigh Virginia Dare Marc Basnight
Weather	1936 Outer Banks hurricane 1945 Outer Banks hurricane Hurricane Fran Hurricane Irene Hurricane Isabel Hurricane Dorian Hazard mitigation