Cape Fear River Atlas – First Edition, 2016
The Virginia Canals & Navigations Society is proud to announce the publication of the Cape Fear River Atlas, First Edition - 2016. Authors W.E. Trout, III, John Hairr and Nancy R. Trout. This new atlas is 151 pages plus covers and is plastic spiral bound. PLEASE POST Before railroads were unheard of, rivers were the superhighways of the time – the arteries of commerce. Rivers carried the products of the farm, of the mine, and of the forest to market – preferably to coastal markets and to the world. North Carolina had only one river with a deep-water coastal port, and that was the Cape Fear. All of her other major rivers run out of the state, or into coastal sounds with only shallow openings to the sea. Put a…