Title	North Water Street - 0 block - early 1920s.
Subject	N. Water Street, Coast Guard, Cutters, Modoc, McAdoo, Custom House, Menantic
Description	The Coast Guard Cutters, Modoc and McAdoo, arrive at the government dock in front of the U. S. Customs House on North Water Street. At left is the ferry boat, Menantic. 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.
Date	c. 1925
Source	Louis T. Moore Collection 233