Marshallberg is located in Carteret County, North Carolina at the end of Marshallberg Road, approximately 3 miles south of the village of Smyrna. Marshallberg and Smyrna are both hamlets along with Davis, Sea Level, Atlantic and Cedar Island that are collectively referred to as Down East Carteret County. Marshallberg is an unincorporated town with approximately 400 residents. Like Harker’s island,the small town is known for local boat building and repairs, especially small and large fishing vessels.
See link:
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-07-28/news/vw-5705_1_harkers-island-boat
Marshallberg boasts craftsmen like Mr. Mildon and his two sons, Grayer and Kenneth, Ray Davis and his grandson Gary, Gerald Davis, Myron and Buddy Harris, and Keith Willis. These talented men built boats for many purposes including Core Sound skiffs, Core Sound work boats, offshore party boats, pleasure yachts, and small electric powered lake boats by Budsin Wood Craft.
Three sea food business operated here during the period of the late 30’s and mid 40’s, buying and selling soft crabs, hard crabs, shrimp, clams and oysters.
During the late 1950s, engineers dredged a harbor of refuge Deep Hole Point and the sand spoil pumped into creeks along the south waterfront of the community, drastically changing the shoreline. Where there were once sandbars along the shore with creeks between there and the mainland, now the waters of the Straits wash on the mainland.
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http://www.downeasttour.com/marshallberg/history.htm
Lady Barbara previously docked in the small town of Oriental, where the boat sank and spilled oil, before it was towed to Marshallberg.
See links:
https://towndock.net/news/the-lady-vanishes?pg=1
http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/article_653353e8-60eb-11e2-ac5e-0019bb2963f4.html
