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Ferry View
200 Years <
BY SUSAN USHER
A ride on the Southport-Fort Fisher
Ferry offers more than an interlude
from the stresses of daily living: Tiic
hour-long crossing aboard the Sandy
( raharn offers a panoramic view
spanning 200 years of a changing
county history shaped by the confluence
of the Cape Fear River and
tiie Atlantic Ocean.
Along the rtverbank, relics of the
Colonial and Civil War eras stand ad
Jacent to the smokestacks and
loading docks of modern Industry.
As the ferry slides from Its moorliiKs
on the Soulhport side oi the Cape
Fear lliver, Uie smokestacks of the
Pfiier Chemical Corp. pharmaceutical
plant can be seen to the
rlKht.
In a curve of marshland between
the ferry landing and Pflier's docking
faculties the old Price's Creek
lighthouse stands, hardly visible
against a stand of trees H?e circular
brick tower Ls one of the oldest range
lights still standing In the Cape Fear
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region. It and a .smaller beacon atop
the adjacent iightkeeper's house
were nuilt about 1849 to serve as
range Ugh!" for VftueL* navigating
New Inlet. The tract has been
preserved by Pfizer, its present '
owner.
Ix>oking back toward South port as
the ferry moves across the channel,
two more lighthouses can be
seen-the modern high-beamed Oak
Island lighthouse on CasweU Beach
and "Old Baldy," an octagonal
90-foot tall brick lighthouse on Bald
Head Island, one of three Ughthouses
built there at one time or another.
Just to the left of the Oak Island
light the profile of Fort Caswell can
be seen. Blown up and abandoned by
a fleeing Confederate garrison near
in the final davs of the Civil War it
was one of the most well built forts In
the South. The site has been owned by
the North Carolina Baptist Convention
since 1949 and is used as a
religious conference center. Public
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