One of dozens of "screwpile" lighthouses that used to sit atop a series of metal legs drilled into the Pamlico, Abermarle, and Croatan Sounds, the Roanoke River lighthouse was the only structure that survived the move ashore. Since 2007 it has sat deserted and dilapidated on a small penisula in Edenton, NC.


Long silent Revolutionary War era canons serve as sentinels, looking over the wide mouth of the Chowen River to the Barker House and to a resilient grove of bald cyprus.