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Fossils and petrified wood are abundant in North Carolina's coastal plain. They range in age from 10,000 years to more than 600 million years old. Almost every major river and stream east of I-95 to the coast has exposures where fossils can be found. The state's most famous fossil site is a huge marl pit near Aurora in Beaufort County. The pit is internationally known for the huge shark teeth discovered there.
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8521
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After the Revolutionary War, farmers in western North Carolina and Virginia could not compete with the farmers in the eastern parts of the two states because of the cost of shipping goods overland. Rivers soon proved an alternative to roads, however. The Roanoke River was selected because it rises in western Virginia and flows 400 miles to the Albemarle Sound. Many improvements were needed to make the river navigable. The biggest project was a canal that started at Weldon and ran about nine miles upriver to bypass the rapids at present-day Roanoke Rapids. Today the canal has been turned into a park and walking trail. The middle canal locks in Roanoke Rapids have been renovated and turned into a museum.
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