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Waterfront, Cape Fear River - Wilmington, looking east.
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Title
Waterfront
,
Cape
Fear
River
-
Wilmington
,
looking
east
.
Subject
Waterfront
,
Cape
Fear
River
,
Tidewater
Gas
Works
,
Castle
Street
Description
Steamer
arrives
in
port
on a
National
holiday
.
Tall
smokes
stacks
, at
left
, are those of the
Tidewater
Gas
Works
,
located
at the
foot
of
Castle
Street
. The
Native
Americans
called
the
river
, "
Sapona
"
which
is
formed
by the
junction
of the
Haw
and
Deep
Rivers
in
Chatham
County
,
NC
, and
flows
southeasterly
toward
the
Atlantic
Ocean
and the
Cape
that would
eventually
give
the
river
its
permanent
name
. In
1526
, the
Spanish
explorer
,
Vasquez
de
Ayllon
,
wrecked
a
ship
in his
fleet
near
the
mouth
of the
River
Jordan
as the
river
was then
named
.
Early
English
explorers
knew
it
as the
Charles
and
later
the
Clarendon
River
.
Cape
of
Fear
appears
on
maps
as
early
1585
. In the
nineteenth
century
,
local
citizens
debated
whether
the
cape
should be
called
Cape
Faire
or
Cape
Fear
. By
all
rights
, the
name
, "
Fear
" was
appropriate
. At the
mouth
of the
river
are the
treacherous
Frying
Pan
Shoals
,
which
jut
out
twenty-eight
miles
into the
ocean
. These
dangerous
underwater
sandbars
have
caused
countless
ship
wrecks
and have
caused
sailors
to "
fear
" the
place
;
hence
,
Cape
of
Fear
.
Source
Louis T. Moore Collection 232
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