During the conflict, federal troops occupied the town, and many denizens fled. Morehead City continued to experience steady demographic and economic growth until the Civil War. Another aid to Morehead City's development occurred when the terminus of the 1857 Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad was constructed to Shepard's Point. Developers considered this location more advantageous than the Beaufort and Carolina City's channels depths of only twelve feet. Morehead City grew because the port, Pier 1, was built at Shepard Point, where the Newport River was eighteen to twenty feet deep and had a mile wide channel. On February 20, 1861, with Bridges Arendell, Jr. With that property, the Shepard Point Land Company was formed, and on November 11, 1857, the first lots were sold. Impressed by the location and potential of Shepard's Point, Morehead purchased six hundred acres of property from the Arendell family.
In 1853, before the North Carolina Legislature provided partial funding for railroad construction across the state, John Morehead and Silas Webb visited Carteret County to study Beaufort Harbor and Port and determine whether a larger port could be developed. In the mid-nineteenth century, John Morehead expressed interest in establishing a port city. The Arendells were an important and powerful family in Carteret County and Morehead City. The youngest of Fishers's daughters, Sarah, married Bridges Arendell, Sr. William Shepard, David Shepard's son, sold 600 acres to William Fisher in 1791. In 1723, David Shepard, for whom Shepard Point is named, also bought property. In 1714, a prospector named John Shackelford acquired 1,400 acres throughout present day Carteret County.
Envisioning an important port city, John Motley Morehead, the twenty ninth Governor of North Carolina, and others carefully planned Morehead City.ĭuring the early 1700s, white settlement began in present day Carteret County and Morehead City.
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