John's Island Cluster 2
Convenient to Historic Downtown Edenton
(incorporated in 1722), John's Island offers two single platforms
and one cluster of three platforms. Not an actual island, the
protective elbow of swamp and hardwoods keeps prevailing winds and
currents from harshly attacking Edenton's beautiful waterfront.
The five platforms are strategically located on the northern side of
the 'island' along Pembroke Creek. Easily accessible from four
different launch points, each is only a ten-minute paddle or short
boat ride to your overnight destination. You can choose from a
floating dock at Colonial Waterfront Park, a boat ramp at Edenton
Marina, a launch platform at Pembroke Creek Park, or a boat ramp at
Pembroke Creek Marina.
John's Island Cluster Platforms
The platforms are located
along the Pembroke Creek Paddle Trail and a short distance from the
Queen Anne Creek Paddle Trail, both of which are part of the
Albemarle Regional Canoe and Small Boat Trails System. Historic
documents state the Honorable Francis Corbin, Land Agent for Lord
Granville, owned a plantation house on the currently undeveloped
'island' in the 1750s. Corbin also built the Historic Cupola House
in Edenton in 1758. Legend also claims the 'island' housed a
hospital for quarantined patients during the Civil War. Now only
inhabited by an abundance of wildlife and flora, John's Island
provides the nature lover the opportunity to be close to the heart
of Historic Edenton yet isolated from noise and congestion of
civilization.