MARINE RESEARCH --- C-69
N 34° 42.820 W 076° 39.603
18S E 347984 N 3842544
Located on Front St. at Live Oak St in Beaufort NC
Waymark Code: WM82AF
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 01/14/2010
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The area around Beaufort and Morehead City long has been valued by marine biologists for its research potential. Army surgeons at Fort Macon in the 1870s published articles about marine life. In the 1880s the Johns Hopkins University for six summers used the Gibbs House on Front Street in Beaufort as a seaside laboratory. In 1899 the federal government chose Beaufort as the site for a fisheries laboratory, the nation's second after Woods Hole, Mass. That lab moved 1-1/2 miles west to Pivers Island in 1902. Duke University founded its marine laboratory on the island in 1938. The University of North Carolina since 1947 has operated a marine studies facility at Camp Glenn in Morehead City. Rachel Carson (1907-1964), pioneer environmentalist and author of Silent Spring and The Edge of the Sea, conducted research in Beaufort in her later years. The estuarine sanctuary across from the Beaufort waterfront is named in her memory.
Marker Name: Marine Research
Marker Type: City
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