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Title
Cape
Fear
River
-
Eagles
Island
.
Subject
Cape
Fear
River
,
Eagles
Island
Description
A
freighter
passes
Eagles
Island
.
Eagles
Island
is
located
on the
west
bank
of the
Cape
Fear
River
,
directly
opposite
downtown
Wilmington
. The
seven
mile
long
island
was
named
for
Richard
Eagles
, a
native
of
Bristol
,
England
,
who
was
granted
a
part
of the
island
by
King
George
II
in
1737
.
Eagles
purchased
additional
tracts
on the
island
in
1738
and
1739
. The
causeway
was
begun
in
1764
by
Colonel
William
Dry
,
Collector
of
Customs
for the
port
of
Brunswick
.
Dry
used
ballast
from
ships
,
coming
into the
ports
of
Wilmington
and
Brunswick
as a
foundation
for the
causeway
,
which
was
finished
in
1791
.
Among
the
dirt
ballast
of the
foreign
ships
were
seeds
from
many
different
countries
. These
seeds
often
took
root
;
therefore
,
growing
wild
along
the
causeway
are
many
plants
that are not
native
to the
lower
Cape
Fear
.
During
the
nineteenth
century
,
it
was an
important
center
of the
local
naval
stores
industry
and was also the
western
terminus
of the
Cape
Fear
River
ferry
. The
causeway
island
allowed
vehicular
traffic
to
drive
to the
river
.
Source
Louis T. Moore Collection 238
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