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===Fort Ocracoke=== [[Image:Fort-Ocracoke.JPG|thumb|left|Fort Ocracoke]] Fort Ocracoke, a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] fortification constructed at the beginning of the [[American Civil War]], was situated on Beacon Island in Ocracoke Inlet, two miles to the west-southwest of Ocracoke village. The octagon-shaped fort was built on a previous [[War of 1812]] site. At one point nearly 500 Confederate troops were stationed in and around Ocracoke and the fort. The Confederates abandoned and partially destroyed the fort in August 1861 after [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] victories on nearby [[Hatteras Island]]. Union forces razed it a month later on September 17, 1861. Beacon Island and the fort subsided beneath the waves of the inlet after the 1933 hurricanes that struck the area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fort Ocracoke |url=https://www.ocracokenavigator.com/fort-ocracoke/ |website=Ocracoke Navigator |date=17 December 2014 |access-date=25 April 2016}}</ref> The remnants of Fort Ocracoke were relocated and identified in 1998 by the Surface Interval Diving Company.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fort Ocracoke |url=https://www.sidco.org/fort-ocracoke |website=SIDCO |access-date=22 November 2019}}</ref> {{Clear}}
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