Morehead City, North Carolina Morehead City, North Carolina Location of Morehead City, North Carolina Location of Morehead City, North Carolina State North Carolina Morehead City is a port town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.
The populace was 8,661 at the 2010 census. Morehead City jubilated the 150th anniversary of its beginning on May 5, 2007.
By the early 1850s, a group of investors had been formed and incorporated a territory evolution universal known as the "Shepard Point Land Company" which purchased 600 acres (2.4 km2) of territory on the easterly tip of the peninsula bordering the Newport River, known then as "Shepards Point", which is the present locale of Morehead City.
The Shepard Point Land Company's objective was to take favor of the natural deep channel of Topsail Inlet, known today as the Beaufort Inlet, which splits Bogue Banks from Shackleford Banks and provides access to Morehead City, Beaufort, North Carolina, the Newport River and the Intracoastal Waterway.
The Shepard Point Land Company was established to construct a deepwater port to allow another access point for North Carolina timber products to relieve pressure at the port positioned in Wilmington.
To make the port accessible to the interior of North Carolina, the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad line between Goldsboro and New Bern was instead of on April 29, 1858.
North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead, for whom the town/city of Morehead City is named, was a principal member of the Shepard Point Land Company investment group.
Fully working rail service began in July 1858 connecting the town to points west, north and south.
The town of Morehead City was laid out using a grid plan, whereby town/city blocks were equally laid out with each block consisting of 16 equally divided lots.
Morehead City was officially incorporated by the North Carolina Senate in 1860, at which time the total number of homeholds consisted of only 300 individual families.
The popularity of this particular hotel, with its train depot entrance, grand ballroom, piers, sailing and ferries to the beaches of Bogue Banks, helped to establish Morehead City as a summer destination.
Subsequent grants, private investment, and town monies have maintained the forward momentum, so that the town now has a new sea wall, underground utilities, brick paved walkways with planters along the waterfront, all in the downtown area, and tree-lined streets, renovated homes, new docks and new businesses.
The Morehead City Historic District and Morehead City Municipal Building are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Morehead City, seen from Atlantic Beach Morehead City's economy is based dominantly on a range of ecotourism activities and a burgeoning retirement community.
The small-town economy is based further on the Port of Morehead City, light trade and manufacturing, territory development, light commercial fishing, sport fishing, and other service-oriented businesses.
The town is inside easy access of New Bern, Havelock and Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Morehead City in Havelock, and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is 30 miles (48 km) west of Morehead City near Jacksonville.
Morehead City is one of two existing ports in North Carolina which primarily export phosphate.
The Port of Morehead City features a dry-bulk facility with a 225,000-ton capacity warehouse and extended open storage facilities.
Carteret General Hospital in Morehead City is the second biggest employer in Carteret County, behind the Carteret County Public Schools.
Morehead City is home to an annual "Bald Is Beautiful" convention and is the home of the command posts of the Bald-Headed Men of America organization. There are a several world-class postgraduate programs and research organizations in the area, including the University of North Carolina's Institute of Marine Sciences,North Carolina State University's Center for Marine Sciences and Technology, and the Duke University Marine Lab in close-by Beaufort. Morehead City also is home to the Research and Compliance Branch of the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Division, a governmental organization. Morehead City and the encircling area is an excellent venue for fishermen of all varieties.
There are many opportunities for recreational fishing when in Morehead City because of its pristine estuaries and close adjacency to the Continental Shelf and Gulf Stream.
The Gulf Stream is a powerful, warm and swift Atlantic Ocean current that originates at the tip of Florida and follows the coastline of the easterly United States to Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean, bringing large sport fish species such as the Atlantic blue marlin and other billfish close to the North Carolina coastline.
Established in 1957, the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament draws large crowds of sporting enthusiasts of all types to Morehead City each year to witness some of the biggest Atlantic blue marlin catches in North America. In addition to a grow sport fishing industry, Morehead City and encircling areas are a prominent scuba diving destination.
Morehead City sits comfortably between a number of famous wrecks, including the German submarine U-352, a wreck identified in part by the late Morehead resident George Purifoy. Morehead City is home to the Morehead City Marlins of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer baseball league.
The Marlins play at O'Neal Field at Big Rock Stadium in Morehead City, and began playing in the 2010 season.
Youth sports in Morehead City include Little League Baseball, soccer leagues, and basketball leagues.
Morehead City is positioned southwest of the center of Carteret County at 34 43 40 N 76 44 48 W (34.727700, -76.746748). It is situated in a peninsula bordered to the south by Bogue Sound and to the north and east by the tidal Newport River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Morehead City has a total region of 8.5 square miles (22.1 km2), of which 6.8 square miles (17.7 km2) is territory and 1.7 square miles (4.3 km2), or 19.55%, is water. Climate data for Morehead City, North Carolina (1981 2010 normals), Amtrak provides a Thruway Bus to Wilson, North Carolina, that joins with the daily Palmetto train to New York City and Savannah, Georgia. Morehead City Primary School Morehead City Elementary School at Camp Glenn Morehead City is part of the Greenville New Bern Jacksonville designated market area, which was the 109th biggest in 2007 (according to Nielsen Media Research).
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