NC Gazetteer

Sloop Point

A point in Pender County
… extends from the mainland of S Pender County into Virginia Creek estuary in Topsail Sound. Named for the fact that sloops entering the sound moored there. Sloop Point post office, 1879-1936, was located at what is now Barlowes, which see. Site of oldest house in North Carolina, "Sloop Point" (ca. 1726).