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| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Fort McFadden | See Mountain Creek. |
| Fort McGaughey | See Westminster. |
| Fort Raleigh | NE shore of Roanoke Island, E Dare County. The remains of the earthen fort, constructed in 1585 by Ralph Lane's colony, were reconstructed in 1950 by the National Park Service after extensive archaeological study. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. The Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and the Waterside Theatre—at which Paul Green's symphonic drama, The Lost Colony, has been presented in the summer since 1937—are there. An Elizabethan Garden maintained by the Garden Club of North Carolina and a museum are also nearby. |
| Fort Rollins | See Blowing Rock. |
| Fort Run | stream, rises in W Greene County and flows NE into Contentnea Creek. Named because an early eighteenth-century Tuscarora Indian fort was located nearby. John Lawson was killed near the head of the stream in 1711. |
| Fort San Juan | W Burke County, camp used by Spanish expeditionary force by Juan Pardo. Explorers built fort upon site of Indian village known as Joara or Xuala in January 1567; it was destroyed by Indians, 1568. Archaeological work at what is known as Berry site each summer. |
| Fort Shaw | former fort on the beach of Oak Island in SE Brunswick County. Used to protect Confederate blockade-runners moving in close to shore. |
| Fort St. Philip | See Brunswick. |
| Fort Thompson | Civil War fort, site 5 mi. SE of New Bern on Neuse River in Craven County. |
| Fort Totten | one of the forts built around New Bern by Union forces after they took the town in March 1862. Located in S central Craven County. |