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Merchants Millpond State Park is a North Carolina state park in Gates County, North Carolina, in the United States. Located near Gatesville, in North Carolina's coastal plain, it covers 3,520 acres (14.2 km 2) [2] around a 200-year-old, 700-acre (280 ha) millpond and Lassiter Swamp. Canoeing is one of the park's major attractions.
Colt State Park Fishing Pier in Bristol. The pier is on Narraganset Bay in the East Passage, just a few hundred yards from the East Bay shipping channel that acts as a fish conduit pushing bait ...
Eure is an unincorporated community in mid-western Gates County, North Carolina, United States.It lies at an elevation of 23 feet (7 m). [3] It is approximately 15 minutes away from Merchants Millpond State Park, [4] and about 40 minutes away from the Great Dismal Swamp.
But further downstream, Norfleets Millpond, which was built in 1811, thrived. Gristmills, a sawmill, a farm supply store and other enterprises made the area the center of trade in Gates County. Thus, the pond became known as Merchants Millpond." This appears to be taken verbatim from the NC Parks website on Merchants Millpond.
The Fort Wetherill State Park fishing pier is closed for repairs but the upper lot remains open. The "upper" parking lot just to the south of the fishing pier will remain open, the DEM said.
A mill dam (International English) or milldam (US) is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond. [1]Water passing through a dam's spillway is used to turn a water wheel and provide energy to the many varieties of watermill.
The state park preserves portions of the former Choptank River Bridge as a pier, and includes 25 acres (10 ha) of land upriver from the pier in Talbot County. [2] The fishing pier was created after the Emerson C. Harrington Bridge, which had been dedicated in 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt, was replaced with the Frederick C. Malkus Bridge ...
The millpond is relatively shallow with an average depth of about 4 ft (1 m). The upstream portion of the impoundment is swampy and the shoreline is largely forested. Scenic and decorated with lily pads, Gardy's Millpond is a quiet spot to fish for black crappie, bluegill and redear sunfish, bream, chain pickerel, largemouth bass and yellow perch.