NC Gazetteer

Diamond City

A former community in Carteret County
… former community near the E end of Shackleford Banks, S Carteret County. Named for the diamond-shaped design painted on the Cape Lookout Lighthouse. Site of whaling operations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several storms in the early twentieth century caused the residents to begin moving to Harkers Island, Morehead City, Beaufort, and elsewhere.