And, Speaking of New Inlet: "The Rocks"

After the war, New Inlet was determined to be detrimental to navigation on the Cape Fear River and it was determined to close it by means of a dam across it.  That dam, completed in the 1880s is still there and called "The Rocks."

I have been writing about "The Rocks" and the closing of New Inlet in my RoadDog's RoadLog blog the last several days.

Of interest, the engineer who designed the dam and constructed it, Henry Bacon, Sr. is the father of Henry Bacon, Jr. who was the architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C..

--Old B-R'er