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story begins in 1585 when the first European footprints were left
in the Ocracoke sand. These English explorers named the
uninhabited island “Wocokon” after an Indian tribe they
encountered on the western shore of the Pamlico Sound. Over the
next one hundred years, the island was settled by a handful of
tough pioneers who survived by fishing, grazing sheep and cattle,
and salvaging the remains of ships destroyed by the treacherous
Atlantic shoals.
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story begins in 1585 when the first European footprints were left
in the Ocracoke sand. These English explorers named the
uninhabited island “Wocokon” after an Indian tribe they
encountered on the western shore of the Pamlico Sound. Over the
next one hundred years, the island was settled by a handful of
tough pioneers who survived by fishing, grazing sheep and cattle,
and salvaging the remains of ships destroyed by the treacherous
Atlantic shoals.