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The record crest for the Cape Fear River remains the 1945 mark, which was 68.9 feet, according to available records. The river during Hurricane Matthew hit 58.9 feet. During Florence, it rose to ...
Multiple emergency services responded to a single vehicle collision at the Southport waterfront Tuesday evening. Around 11:25 p.m. on Tuesday, officers with the Southport Police Department ...
Christopher Bledsoe Sr. says he encountered orbs and spiritual beings while fishing at the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville with his son Christopher Jr. and three other friends in 2007.
Wilmington, located 30 miles upstream from the mouth of the Cape Fear River (which flows into the Atlantic Ocean), was among the Confederacy's more important cities. It ranked 13th in size in the CSA (although only 100th in the pre-war United States) with a population of 9,553 according to the 1860 census, making it nearly the same size as Atlanta, Georgia, at the time.
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The Cape Fear River is a 191.08-mile-long (307.51 km) [5] blackwater river in east-central North Carolina. It flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Fear , from which it takes its name. The river is formed at the confluence of the Haw River and the Deep River (North Carolina) in the town of Moncure, North Carolina .
Cape Fear is a prominent headland jutting into the Atlantic Ocean from Bald Head Island on the coast of North Carolina in the southeastern United States. It is largely formed of barrier beaches and the silty outwash of the Cape Fear River as it drains the southeast coast of North Carolina through an estuary south of Wilmington .
The fort was located on one of Cape Fear River's two outlets to the Atlantic Ocean on what was then known as Federal Point or Confederate Point and today is known as Pleasure Island. The strength of Fort Fisher led to its being called the Southern Gibraltar and the "Malakoff Tower of the South".