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Category: 31. The Lumbee River; environment and environmentalism
WALT001. Walton, Trudy. “Lumber
River took many lives, inspired poets and bootleggers.” News and
Observer (Raleigh, NC) Sunday, 1 February 1948: 1.
4 photographs, 1 map
Publication type: Newspaper article
This article is tenth in a series of Sunday features
on rivers of North Carolina. This twisting river, which begins in Moore
County and empties into the Little Pee Dee in South Carolina, has a reputation
for whirlpools which earned it the early name “Drowning Creek.”
The river's source near Jackson Springs in Moore County is still called
Drowning Creek.
The article discusses early use of the river for fishing;
water power to run mills; and floating merchandise on barges up the river
from Wilmington, N.C. and Georgetown, S.C.
The article discusses (briefly) the history and origins
of the Lumbee Indians; the towns of Riverton and Lumberton; Baptist
use of the river for “dipping” baptisms; quotations from writings
about the river by Gerald Johnson and John Charles McNeill; the Boy
Scouts led by C.D. Brothers and their canoe trips on the river; and
reminiscences of the river's flood periods.
Photographs include: A.W. McLean, Jr.'s home; a view
of the river from the “old bridge” looking toward the “Lumberton
Legion hut”; and the river at flood stage at the intersection of
highways 301 and 74 (showing an Esso Station).
Additional subjects: Riverton | Lumberton--History | John
Charles McNeill | Gerald Johnson | Abiah's Cove | Catherine Campbell White
This annotation was edited on: June 24, 2002
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