Dasemunkepeuc

Dasemunkepeuc is a North Carolina historical marker in Dare County, dedicated 2012.

US 264 at US 64 south of Mann's Harbor

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Algonquian village at the time of Roanoke voyages. Home of leader, Wingina, slain by colonist, 1586. Abandoned in 1587, it was in this vicinity.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1795 · State of North Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · North-Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1818 · North Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · (Virginia, N. Carolina) Railroad Map of the United States. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Harvard University, Harvard Map Collection, G1059_W57_1654_pf_sh15 (Harvard Library, Harvard Map Collection)

(Virginia, N. Carolina) Railroad Map of the United States, 1891, covering the location of Dasemunkepeuc, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — (Virginia, N. Carolina) Railroad Map of the United States, 1891, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

Dasemunkepeuc

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