. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. But these men also added a dose of cheer to river life. To combat their loneliness and to break the tedium of their downstream travel, runners would sing, whistle and holler, their voices echoing for miles through the river forests. People, too, used the Black River for travel. Southeastern North Carolina was sparsely populated and roads were few and rough during Colonial times. The river provided an easy avenue for travel among plantations and the ports of Brunswick and Wilmington. People not only travele
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. But these men also added a dose of cheer to river life. To combat their loneliness and to break the tedium of their downstream travel, runners would sing, whistle and holler, their voices echoing for miles through the river forests. People, too, used the Black River for travel. Southeastern North Carolina was sparsely populated and roads were few and rough during Colonial times. The river provided an easy avenue for travel among plantations and the ports of Brunswick and Wilmington. People not only traveled the river's length, but its width too. Several wooden-raft ferries were established to convey people across the Black River. The longest running and most famous was Corbett's Ferry, near present-day Ivanhoe. Only a matter of luck and some British reconnaissance prevented the Revolutionary War Battle of Moore's Creek from being the Battle of Corbett's Ferry. Patriot forces under the command of Col. Richard Caswell took posses- sion of Corbett's Ferry, awaiting the arrival of British soldiers commanded by Brig. Gen. Donald McDonald. The. British bypassed the Patriots by cross- ing the Black River five miles above Corbett's Ferry on a makeshift bridge fashioned from a sunken flat. The To- ries then proceeded to Moore's Creek for the now famous battle that ended British dominance in the area. After the Revolutionary War, settlement along the Black River in- creased and the town of Lisbon (also spelled Lisburn and Lisborne) was built in 1785 at the head of the Black River where the Coharie and Six Runs rivers converge. Lisbon developed as a center for raft and pole boat activity and as a trading outlet for people who lived upriver. With more settlement came in- creased use of the Black River for con- veying goods, still mostly naval stores, timber and lumber. Canoes, rafts, periaugers and pole boats remained the primary means of conveyance until after the Civil War. The first brid
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