Lockwood Folly Inlet and River-- Part 2: Two Stories As To How It Was Named

There are two folklore stories as to how this name came to be:

1.  A man by the name of Lockwood was building the "boat of his dreams" on the river.  He worked tirelessly, but when finished it, he discovered that his boat's draft was too deep for it to cross the bar at the mouth of the river.

All he could do was to leave his ship to rot.  Locals began calling it "Lockwood's Folly" and eventually that name was applied to both the river and inlet.

2.  The second story revolves around a man named Lockwood who tried to build a colony along the river but did not bring enough supplies and got into a dispute with a local Indian tribe and the colony had to be disbanded.

The name appears on a 1671 map making the name one of the oldest named rivers in North Carolina.

--Old B-Runner