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Waves off Sandfiddler Rd Corolla, North Carolina as Hurricane Gonzalo churned off shore.

The place names of this area reflect the early Native American heritage. Currituck is a derivation of a Native American word meaning �land of the wild goose.�

Keepers at Corolla Lighthouse 1893

Chowanog, Poteskeet, Pamunkey and other tribes that lived on the mainland used the barrier island as fishing and hunting grounds and named it for its abundance of geese. Europeans, who began settling in the area in the 1600s, applied the word to the barrier island, the county, the sound and two inlets.

In the late 1600s and early 1700s, a few European settlers resided on the northern barrier islands, but most people preferred to live on the mainland. Until the early 1800s, Currituck Banks was separated from Virginia by Old and New Currituck inlets and from Duck by Caffeys Inlet, so getting there was only possible by boat.

By the mid-1800s there were several communities,...

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