North Carolina Coastal Waterfront

The challenge real estate pros face presenting Carolina's coastal waterfront is belief that such places still exist on the Eastern Seaboard. Folks tend to believe every piece of the Atlantic seaboard worth relaxing on was staked out long ago.

But the same geography that pushed the "postal highways" upland from the rivers and sounds of eastern Carolina, which happens to be the part of the seaboard jutting east into the Atlantic, slowed its development until late in the Age of the Automobile.

Although Walter Raleigh set up the first English settlement on Roanoke Island, ease of transport caused the more accessible central and mountainous western sections of North Carolina to become the first developed and heavily populated parts of "The Old North State."

North Carolina's modern city-dweller, hungry for pristine relaxation and room to breathe, can look eastward, back toward the sea. Since 1990, the drive time from Raleigh and I-95 has dropped by nearly

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