Record #:

16179

Author(s):

Warren, Harry

Abstract:

Cape Fear River connected communities in eastern Carolina's coastal plain. Transportation transformed from sail and rowboats to steamboats in the 19th-century. River traffic again evolved in the early 19th-century when motorized boat traffic replaced steamboats. Regardless of propulsion, river traffic promoted growth of two of the river's largest cities, Fayetteville and Wilmington.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 28 Issue 2, Spring 1989, p16-19, il

Subject(s):

Cape Fear River--History