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Annals of the Fleeting Years Bt TUntEB R. l.tTTt.ETO* II b my Mratiw to present to the readers of this paper, weekly under this heading, articles telling the history of the Town of Swans boro. I do not think it illogical ?ltt such historical articles should appear in the Carteret County pa yer, for 1 have always felt that there wn t strong tie between (tie County of Carteret and the little village of Swansboro that (its Just acroai the White Oak River and gazes all day at the other bank at If yon Carteret were the Promised Land. And there is just reason why the Town of Swansbors should feel a kinship M Carteret folk, for (toot the time of the Cirll War aeveral Down Eiat families migrated to Swanitare and made up almaat half at ita native population until the coming of the Marine Baaea. These familtea were the tiarla, Willis, Heady. Bloodfood. Parkin, Piner, Hill, and Moore families; and their descendants still proudly claim their Carteret origins. MM ? year age Mr. John S. Jonea of Cedar feint asked me to write a history of the Cedar feint fishety, and 1 think there ia no better plate to begin thia series of historical sketehea. Cedar faint ll somewhat of a common ground between the two counties of Car teret and Onslow, symbolising the close relations between the two. The Cedar folnt folk get their mail addressed Swansboro and their children go to school In Swansboro; so It is only right that Cedar folnt feels that it is a part of Onslow, and Swansboro feels a part of Carteret. And so, a brief history of the fishery . . . Carteret County Is probably the only county that has the distinction of having two Cedar foints. The map of the county published by the US Department of Agriculture shows a Cedar foint in the eastern extreme of the county situated on the Neusc Hlver between Adams Creek and South River. The other Cedar foint, the one this article will be about, is located in the op posite end of the county near the conflux of Bogue Sound and the White Oak River. The name of Cedar folnt is well established in the history of Swans boro and Carteret County, for the settlement there is very old, a land grant having been issued to Thom as Lee a? early as 1713/14. We know that the name of Cedar foint was commonly applied to that area in early years, for the Colonial Records of North Carolina mention Cedar Point as early as 1764. No one can say exactly when the fishery was first established at Ce dar Point, but there is every rea son to believe that it was In con tinuous use for at least a century. Because the name Cedar Point takes in a large territory today, it is hard for one to visualize where the approximate location would have been. However, a map drawn by a fam ous surveyor, Claborn Ivey, and dated October 2, 1824, shows Hick ory Point as what is now called Cedar Lane; and Cedar Point was just that? a small point just past Hickory Point and not far from Swansboro. There on that little point was a fishery that figured very Importantly in the income of people from both counties. Now, that fishery fools a lot of people by its name, but local folk know that a fishery is simply a fisherman's shack where he can keep out of the weather while wait ing to make a haul and where a Taxes MUST be Listed During January LIST YOUR TAXES TODAY This is the reproduction of a portion of "Ittj'l Map of Cedar Point," dated 1814. Hickory Point at the center of the map ti now known as Cedar Lane. (Photo by 9. F. Mllsted). WORTH MORE BECAUSE THEY WORK MORE MlMtilrtlfla Ifcnhrt ?fcifhirJ MM lld.IrfB wwiji new lorsion springs afiu oiurni-Diii owp work a tree* em 4a. Laat ytmr't icMtan ?at? 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Though the fishery wss operated only a small part o f the year, it was Important to the financial wel fare of a good segment of the coun ty and of Swansboro folk. During the spring and summer months there were farms and regular Jobs to be tended to; but when the fall Came, more money could be made fishing, and so men turned out to work at the nets at Cedar Point. The Cedar Point Fishery came Into being early in the lMO's and was at first manned by fishermen from Down East in Carteret. How long the Down lint fishermen ran (he fishery is not known, but it Was apparently a number of years before the fishery came into the hands of men from west Carteret and Swaniboro. The earliest boss at <he fishery, ftill remembered by living persons, was a Mr. Beg Lewis from the re gion of the Straits. Mr. Lewis had a crew from Dawn East who fished the waters of Bogue Sound at Ce dar Point until moiit of that erew died out, and new hands took over. Mr. Edward Franklin Littleton, now in his Mth year, remembers his maternal grandfather, Mr. Burns B. Smith, as having told him that Beg Lewis wis the first man who aver had charge of the fishery, and that was long before Mr. Burns Smith himself had charge of It. To get some idea of the datei of the operation of the fishery, one must start with the date of closing and work backwards, since na date of beginning ii known. Mr. Ed ward F. Littleton was in charge of the fishery whefl it closed in 1930. The deepening of the aonnd when the Inland Waterway was dredged by Cedar Point in 1930 ruined the fishing grounds, and the fishery ceased operations that year. Ed ward Littleton, however, had fish ed at the fishery for twenty-seven years prior to the doting of it, and hit father George Littleton had fished there ahead of him for more years than that. Before George Littleton Uwk over the fishery, his father-in-law, Burns Smith, had been head man there since the middle of the century. And before that, Btg Lewis had hia crew. All that Aeans that for roughly a century Cedar Point | Fishery had been one of the best fishing grounds in Carteret County and vicinity. Of ntm, the red?r Point land has been in the family of Mr. John S. Jones since the days of his fore beats, the Mills. Fishing privileges See FISHERY. Page 1, Section 2 The Sky's The Limit . . . Enter Colonials -ABOUND? WORLD CONTEST! 280 FABULOUS PRIZES! K 1" PRIZE Ttlp aroufel (h? world $800 spending mon?y. plus baby ?m?r ?***???- 9? London. India, ' JUnfllpK. Ho<\Q Kent. 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