Blackbeard's Point Access

While the landscape is now dominated by modern navy installations and the stately homes of Old Hampton, the ground beneath carries the weight of one of the most enduring legends of the Golden Age of Piracy. It is a story of greed, retribution, and a severed head that supposedly refused to die.

If you stand at the water’s edge on a foggy evening, looking out toward the bay, it isn’t hard to imagine the silhouette of a schooner on the horizon, or the ghostly creak of a pike bearing its terrible burden, watching over the river for eternity. blackbeard's point