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Hoop Pole Creek

Hoop Pole Creek is a North Carolina historical marker in Carteret County, dedicated 1962.

NC 58 (Fort Macon Boulevard) in Atlantic Beach

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Union forces led by General John G. Parke landed here March 29, 1862, during the Fort Macon campaign.

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Monitor map, showing the whole seacoast from Chesapeake Bay, down to Savannah harbor, and…, 1863, covering the location of Hoop Pole Creek, with a pin at the marker's coordinates
Monitor map, showing the whole seacoast from Chesapeake Bay, down to Savannah harbor, and…, 1863, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. 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.

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