Columbia, NC

Columbia was once an important shipping point and is now popular as a boating center.
Sportsmen use Columbia as a year-round base to fish the waters of Albemarle Sound and the improved waterfront provides access to downtown shops and restaurants. Within a few blocks of the municipal marina there are an array of restaurant choices as well as a pharmacy, banks (with ATM), a hardware store and a Post Office.
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The Town of Manteo wraps around Shallowbag Bay on the eastern side of Roanoke Island, part of North Carolina's Outer Banks. In the early days, every store lining the waterfront had two doors - one for those coming by boat, and the other for those coming from the courthouse or one of the inns on Water Street. Today, county business still brings people to town, as well as many reminders of the island's history, including the representative 16th-century ship at Roanoke Island Festival Park, or the George Washington Creef Boathouse and Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse, part of the North Carolina Maritime Museum.

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