BeaufortThe third-oldest town in North Carolina (1709), Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge wreck site, and the boat dock to Cape Lookout National Seashore

Beaufort, North Carolina sits at the eastern end of the Crystal Coast on the Beaufort Inlet — the 1709 colonial port and Carteret County's seat, the third-oldest town in North Carolina after Bath (1705) and New Bern (1710), and the cited 2012 "America's Coolest Small Town" winner. Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge was discovered in 25 feet of water at the inlet in November 1996 (the 1718 Edward Teach pirate-fleet flagship that ran aground after a Spanish privateer engagement); the recovered cannon, anchors, and navigational artifacts are displayed at the North Carolina Maritime Museum on Front Street. The 1731 Old Burying Ground behind the Ann Street United Methodist Church holds the "Little Girl in a Rum Barrel" grave, the Beaufort Historic Site complex on Turner Street preserves the 1796 Joseph Bell House and the 1825 Carteret County Courthouse, and the Front Street waterfront is the cited Crystal Coast restaurant strip (Beaufort Grocery Co., Aqua, Aroma).

Our Beaufort rentals concentrate in the historic district and the Beau Coast neighborhood — Bridgeview on Broad is a 1-bedroom waterfront studio with the cited screened-in porch overlooking the sound, Chadwick Cottage is a 3-bedroom 2.5-bath townhome in the sought-after Beau Coast community with the community dock and pool, Taylor Cottage is a coastal-cottage walk to Front Street, and the rest of the inventory runs single-family historic-district rentals. The Atlantic Beach Causeway is 5 minutes west across Bogue Sound; Cape Lookout National Seashore is 30 minutes via ferry from Front Street; Harkers Island and the Cape Lookout National Seashore Visitor Center are 30 minutes east on Hwy 70.