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Traveling On the Tar River
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Other than dug out canoes used by Native Americans, the earliest conveyances along the Tar River wee flat boats. these were usually 50 or 60 feet long and were propelled by pushing poles along the banks of the river bottom. Steamboats first started to appear around 1836.
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