Dasemunkepeuc

Hyde County, NC

Mattamuskeet, the largest natural lake in North Carolina, has drawn people to its shallow waters for centuries. In 1715 it became the center of an Indian reservation for the region's Native people, and in later eras ambitious schemes twice drained the lake to farm its rich bottomland. Since 1934 the lake and its marshes, a mile to the north, have been protected as a national wildlife refuge.

Currituck County, NC

In 1704 colonial authorities set aside a reservation for the Yeopim people, an Algonquian community of the Albemarle region, only for the land to be sold off after 1739. The marker locates the reservation's northern boundary and notes the Yeopim village once stood two miles to the southeast. Their story traces the swift dispossession of coastal Native nations as English settlement expanded.

Edenton, NC

Weapemeoc was the principal town of the Weapemeoc people, an Algonquian nation whose homeland lay along the sounds of what is now northeastern North Carolina. When Ralph Lane and his colonists from the 1585–86 Roanoke expedition ranged through the region, they encountered this thriving Indigenous community near present-day Edenton. The marker recalls a Native world that long predated and briefly overlapped with England's first attempts at American settlement.

Hertford County, NC

Choanoac was the principal town of the Choanoac people, the largest Algonquian-speaking group in what is now North Carolina at the time of English contact. In the 1580s their leader Menatonon encountered the English explorers connected to the Roanoke ventures, making his nation part of the earliest recorded meetings between Native people and the English in the region. The village site lay about three miles east.