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Avon, North Carolina
About
Avon sits roughly midway down Hatteras Island, the largest village between Salvo and Buxton and the main services stop — grocery store, hardware, restaurants — for the island's northern half. Long before it was Avon, the village was known as Kinnakeet, an Algonquian word roughly meaning "that which is mixed," reflecting the intermingling of Native and English settlers here; the U.S. Postal Service renamed it Avon in 1883, but longtime locals still call themselves Kinnakeeters.
A Village Built on Boats and Eelgrass
Kinnakeet was once Hatteras Island's most prosperous village, thanks to its stands of live oak and cedar, prized for boatbuilding, and a now-vanished eelgrass industry — rafts of dried sound grass baled and shipped off to furniture makers as upholstery stuffing. Its fortunes shifted when an 1846 hurricane tore open Hatteras Inlet, redirecting maritime traffic away from the area.
The Island's Best Surf Fishing
Today Avon is best known among anglers as the top surf-fishing spot on Hatteras Island, with the Cape Point stretch and Avon Pier drawing fishermen after red drum, bluefish, and Spanish mackerel from the beach itself. Its central location and full range of services make it a practical, less crowded base for exploring the rest of Hatteras Island.
Avon is widely regarded as the best surf-fishing location on Hatteras Island, with Avon Pier and the surrounding beach drawing anglers after red drum, bluefish, and Spanish mackerel.
Avon was known as Kinnakeet until the post office renamed it in 1883; the old name, an Algonquian word for that which is mixed, is still used by longtime residents, who call themselves Kinnakeeters.
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