Record #:

38933

Author(s):

Abstract:

Port Ferdinando, located on the north end of Hatteras Island near the present day Bodie Island lighthouse, was the principal entry point for men and supplies for the Roanoke Colony in pre-colonial North Carolina. It was named for the Portuguese explorer and sometimes pirate Simon Fernandez and there was evidence of a fort there. John White, the Governor of what is now the Lost Colony, is the only person to cartographically record Port Ferdinando.

Source:

Carolina Trees & Branches (NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 3, July 2016, p86 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Port Ferdinando; Bodie Island Lighthouse--History; Roanoke Colony