Category: 31. The Lumbee River; environment and environmentalism

    1051. “Lumberton as it now is. With a brief sketch of its early organization and the origin of its name.” Robesonian 10 May 1904: 1.

Publication type: Newspaper article

Croatans’ ancestors gave the river the name “Lombe,” which in their language meant “black.” Lumberton, formerly known as Red Bluff, was an Indian trading post.

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr.

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