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15030
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Timber rafting was a big industry on the Upper Cape Fear River during the 19th-century before railroads. The industry employed hundreds of men who stripped virgin pine forests of their finest sticks and bound them into long rafts for the 125-mile trip down the river to sawmills at Point Peter near Wilmington. The rafts also carried bales of cotton and barrels of turpentine.
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15035
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Founded by pirates, developed by American colonists, destroyed by the railroads; that is the history of the host town of old Averasboro lying at the foot of Smiley's Falls on the Cape Fear River in the southern part of Harnett County.
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15130
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Iron mining was a one time a quite sizable industry in the Upper Cape Fear River region. There is a large body of rich ore particularly in Chatham County where numerous mills and blast furnaces took advantage of the many tributaries of the Cape Fear River.
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15287
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In Harnett County lies a small, famous, old church called Barbecue, founded in 1757. This Presbyterian church was the pastorate of Reverend Campbell for a time until the Revolutionary War turned this Whig against his Tory congregation. Angus McDairmid next occupied the pulpit until 1802 when he tried to prevent Barbecue from being swept up in the frenzy of the Presbyterian revival; his efforts failed. Many others followed, even a Methodist preacher, and among worshipers at Barbecue were Flora McDonald and Alexander McRae.
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15299
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Boston still brags about its Tea Party, but one hundred years before they started throwing out tea in Boston, North Carolina was throwing out governors in this state. In protest of the tax on tobacco, open rebellion began in 1677. In 1766, many North Carolina towns were also up in arms about the Stamp Act, and the people of Wilmington had their own tea party while under the leadership of Ashe, Harnett, and others. Inhabitants marched on Governor Tyron's house and demanded the surrender of the official in charge of the stamps.
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18102
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In this second of a series of three articles on old Averasboro, Fowler recounts the ups and downs in the town's struggle for glory with the building of the Averasboro Canal and the discovery of iron a few miles from the town.
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18103
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Averasboro pinned its hopes of becoming a great and progressive city on the Cape Fear River. In this third of a series of three articles on old Averasboro, Fowler recounts the series of misfortunes that doomed that hope.
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18199
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In Part 2 of his series on iron mining in the upper Cape Fear, Fowler writes about the blast furnace at Endor, near Sanford. It is difficult to identify the builders at this date. As to when, most feel it was before the Civil War. The stone Endor furnace was thirty-two feet square at the base and rose to a height of forty-five feet.
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18216
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In Part 3 of his series on iron mining in the upper Cape Fear, Fowler writes about the blast furnace at Buckhorn in Harnett County. It was built in 1855 by John Colville and his foreman Jim Henry.
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