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Morehead City

North Carolina, United States
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Morehead City, town, seaport resort, Carteret county, eastern North Carolina, U.S. It lies on Bogue Sound (there receiving the Newport River) and on the Intracoastal Waterway opposite Beaufort, to which it is bridged. In 1853 John Motley Morehead, governor of North Carolina (1841–45), purchased land on the site (then called Shepherd’s Point) of the projected eastern terminus of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, which he believed had great potential for an Atlantic seaport. The...

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