NC Gazetteer

Tucker Island

Also known as: Pughs Island
A island in Northampton County
… a silty clay and loam island in Roanoke River, NW Northampton County. Formerly approx. 2 mi. long, but now largely covered by the waters of Roanoke Rapids Lake. Appears as Pughs Island on the Price map, 1808, and as a part of Hamlins Shoals on the MacRae map, 1833.