Lockwood's Folly River and Inlet-- Part 1: An Inlet to a Short Tidal River

Since I was writing so much on the USS Iron City and the blockade runners which sank at this place, I did some more research on it.

From Wikipedia.

I have seen it spelled both Lockwood and Lockwood's.  Over the last couple weeks I have been writing about the Civil War shipwrecks at Lockwood's Folly Inlet.  It is near Wilmington, North Carolina.

LOCKWOOD FOLLY RIVER

A short tidal river in Brunswick County, North Carolina, that runs from near Supply, N.C., southbound to the Atlantic Ocean.

LOCKWOOD FOLLY INLET

Connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Intercoastal Waterway and was once the mouth of the Lockwood Folly River prior to the construction of the Intercoastal and natural sand shifting.  It separates the barrier islands of Oak Island and Holden Beach.

--Old B-Runner