NC Gazetteer

Trinity Harbor

Also known as: Worcester Inlet
A waterway in Dare County
… a former inlet from the Atlantic Ocean into Albemarle Sound through North Banks S of the present community of Duck. It opened prior to 1585 and closed prior to 1657. Appears on the White map, 1590. The Smith map, 1624, labels it Worcester Inlet. Probably named because it was discovered on one of the Sundays after Trinity (either the 1st or 8th of August, 1585). The site is now in NE Dare County.