Record #:

1942

Author(s):

Alford, Michael B.

Abstract:

Discovery in 1989 of a flatboat in a Trent River meander near New Bern gave insight into the building and use of an important transportation mode, the ferry in colonial North Carolina.

Source:

Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1991, p10-16, il, f

Subject(s):

Ferries; North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Trent River; Underwater archaeology--New Bern