Mattamuskeet Lake

Mattamuskeet is a broad, shallow lake on the low coastal plain near Pamlico Sound. Before drainage channels altered it, the lake had no streams flowing into it and was fed by rain, runoff and groundwater. Its shores were home to Indigenous communities whose name the lake bears. After the Tuscarora War, colonial authorities established a reservation here in 1715 for the Coree, Cotechny and Mattamuskeet peoples, although settlers continued to encroach on their land.