The 500-year anniversary of Verrazzano’s landfall on the Carolina coast

Ocracoke Observer

The 500-year anniversary of Verrazzano’s landfall on the Carolina coast

Verrazzano's route across the Atlantic. Graphic by Kevin Duffus By Kevin P. Duffus Five-hundred-year anniversaries don’t come around very often. An opportunity to observe the earliest documented exploration and survey of the North Carolina coast slipped by the attention of the state’s stewards of its history this past spring with nary a nod. Five centuries…