Editor's note: This is the first installment of Quick Trips, a series of local travel stories that will be published Fridays through July 29.

Take the ferry ride across the Pamlico Sound from Swan Quarter or Cedar Island and you can land on a little piece of history.

Ocracoke Island lies along the North Carolina coast as part of the Outer Banks, a string of islands connecting the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the sounds.

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