Peletier, NC

Peletier is a Carteret County town named for the late-eighteenth-century Pelletier family, with the tidal White Oak River forming its western edge. The town sits in western Carteret County, bordered south by Cape Carteret and Cedar Point, so the local map reads as a meeting of river water, coastal roads, and neighboring towns. Peletier’s name keeps the family history visible, while the White Oak gives the place its strongest geographic marker. It is coastal North Carolina in a compact frame: one town, one tidal river, and the Carteret County road map around it.