. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Tracing Cape Fear Legend and Lore By Carta B. Burgess Nearly two centuries of Cape Fear history sleep beneath the canopy of oaks, dogwood and Spanish moss in Wilmington's Oakdale Cemetery. The tiny lamb that shelters 6-year-old "Annie," the mausoleums as big as houses and the mass grave of Confed- erate soldiers tell the story of this river town. Just west, the river and its main tributary from the northeast converge and begin a 30-mile southern journey to the Atlantic Ocean. In the days when riv
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Tracing Cape Fear Legend and Lore By Carta B. Burgess Nearly two centuries of Cape Fear history sleep beneath the canopy of oaks, dogwood and Spanish moss in Wilmington's Oakdale Cemetery. The tiny lamb that shelters 6-year-old "Annie," the mausoleums as big as houses and the mass grave of Confed- erate soldiers tell the story of this river town. Just west, the river and its main tributary from the northeast converge and begin a 30-mile southern journey to the Atlantic Ocean. In the days when rivers were highways, the 200-mile Cape Fear connected New Hanover to a family of inland counties and their commercial offspring. In 1853. it was said to be the outlet for the products of more than 28 North Carolina counties. Through its mouth at the Atlantic breathed vital trade between the West Indies, Spain and other ports of call. As the wind whips around granite crosses and white stone angels in Oakdale's 160 acres, one can almost hear voices whispering the Cape Fear legend. Wilmington owes its existence to the river, whose waters carved this high, dry outpost for early settlers and their ancestors. The river put New Hanover County on the map and in the history books. In Oakdale lies Rose Greenhow, a rebellious woman and Confederate spy who drowned while attempting to run the federal blockade at Fort Fisher, 18 miles south of Wilmington. When President Lincoln ordered his navy to block all Southern ports, the inlet there provided vital access for blockade run- ners bringing supplies through the town, the last major Southern port to fall. Through this breach, swift, shallow-draft vessels with such names as Beauregard, Banshee, Spunkie and Night Hawk fueled General Lee's Richmond army and the ire of federal officials. One night in 1863, another woman who desperately wanted to visit her son in England boarded the blockade runner Advance leaving Wilmington for Nassau. Anna Matild
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