Near the southern tip of NC on the east bank of the Cape Fear River. Wilmington, or somewhere near Wilmington is said, by Peter Hinks to have been where David Walker was born and grew up.
An area in which slaves were said (by Peter Hinks) to have had more freedom to develop as artisans, river pilots, etc., than elsewhere in the South.
Southernmost county of NC. Bounded by the Cape Fear River to the east, and Columbus County to the north.
County in which Wilmington lies. It forms a south-pointing penninsula, divided from the rest of NC by the Cape Fear River. Bordered by Brunswick County - to the west, across the Cape Fear, and Pender County to the north.
North Carolina is crossed by many rivers; a major source of hydroelectric power when the much of the New England textile industry moved to NC.
The long chain of sand islands, well out into the Atlantic, called the Outer Banks made the North Carolina "the most dangerous stretch of coast between Canada and Florida" [These United States]. Thus as the coastal state least well-furnished for coastal tranportation, and as a largely mountainous state, it lagged well behind its neighbors, Virginia and South Carolina, in economic development.
A river, very broad at the mouth, whose tributaries drain much of eastern NC. Wilmington, one of the major cities of NC, is on its eastern bank.
Between Beaufort County and the long chain of islands far out in the sea known as the outer banks. The Pamlico River (with its main town of Washington) empties into it.