Born in Tarrytown, New York, our founder lands in North Carolina in 1913 and never leaves. After working as a newspaper reporter and publisher in eastern North Carolina, Carl Goerch starts The State in Raleigh in 1933, intending it to be the first statewide publication dedicated to the appreciation of his adopted — and beloved — home. In the first issue, he writes: “I do not believe that there is any other state in the Union of which the people are in as close and intimate touch with one another as they are here. The people in the Coastal Plain are interested in what the folks up in the mountains are doing and vice versa.”
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
For the owner of The Country Biscuit, welcoming diners is the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. And diners’ dreams come true when they try the glazed biscuit doughnut holes.
Black bears are the embodiment of North Carolina’s adventurous spirit, immense and wild.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.
