Bricks & Mortar.

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From 1886 until 1941, perched upon pilings screwed into the bottom of Albemarle Sound, it marked the mouth off the Roanoke River, guiding commerce to places upstream. The last and grandest off 15 off its kind that stood sentinel on the state's rivers and sounds, it has squatted on dry land in Edenton since 1955. Once...