Roanoke Marshes

… extensive string of low marsh islands in Croatan Sound, E central Dare County stretching from SW end of Roanoke Island to a large marshy area on the mainland. Site of a beacon est. approx. 1875; last of manually operated lights along the coast replaced by automatic beacon in 1955. The islands for the most part have washed away. Shown on the Collet map, 1770, as Daniels Marshes. Unnamed but shown prominently on the Moseley map, 1733.