The Dram Tree on the Cape Fear River-- Part 2 "A Cup of Conviviality"

As State Representative George L. Morton put it in 1909, the Dram Tree "umpired loving cup conviviality and good fellowship on the Lower Cape Fear."

The Dram Tree was destroyed sometime in the 1940s by the dredging of the Cape Fear in connection with activity at the N.C. Shipbuilding Co. (built over 240 Liberty Ships during WW II) located where the State Port is today.

In 1988, the City of Wilmington opened Dram Tree Park in its memory, on the river front, just north of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge near the intersection of Castle and Front streets, Wilmington.

A young cypress tree was planted as a replica near the park's boat ramp.

And, you just know those old blockade-runners stopped for a dram by that tree.

A Tree of History.  A Drink for Me.  --Old B-R'er