Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Search Results
1 result
for "Timber rafting"
Currently viewing results 1 - 1
Abstract:
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.