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NC: Rice was the king crop of the Carolinas at one time
Sunday, September 7, 2014 11:25
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Via Bob
Eagles Island reveals a piece of its history at low tide, when neatly placed wooden fences peek above the murky water.
The fences stand out as the sole man-made objects among swampy reeds and cypress tree debris, relics of the once vibrant rice plantations that lined the Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers.
More than 60 plantations dotted the waterways in northern Brunswick County, and an estimated 50 percent of Eagles Island was once rice fields, according to James Kapetsky, a consultant mapping and studying the history of the fields for the Eagles Island Coalition.
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Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/09/nc-rice-was-king-crop-of-carolinas-at.html
