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The Shallotte River name dates back to at least 1734. [1] According to some accounts, the waterway was once known as the "Charlotte River", a name coined by a traveler who crossed it by ferry. [1] Over time the word Charlotte morphed into Shallotte. [7] Another explanation is the river was so named on account of there being wild shallots along ...
Shallotte is located in west-central Brunswick County. U.S. Route 17 (Ocean Highway) passes through the town, bypassing the town center to the northwest. (Main Street is designated US 17 Business.) US 17 leads northeast 33 miles (53 km) to Wilmington and southwest 38 miles (61 km) to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Shallotte River; manmade canal NC 130 (Holden Beach) Lockwoods Folly River; manmade canal (Future Second Oak Island crossing) NC 133; NC 211; NC 87; Cape Fear River; manmade canal US 421; Masonboro Sound US 74 / US 76; Middle Sound; Topsail Sound NC 50 / NC 210; Stump Sound NC 210; New River; White Oak River; Bogue Sound. NC 58; Bay View Road ...
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This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brunswick County, North Carolina.Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Though NC 179 begins at the state line, SC 179 is a short 0.7-mile-long (1.1 km) road that connects to US 17 in Little River. From the state line, NC 179 goes through the town of Calabash.
By 1944, NC 130 was rerouted in Shallotte onto Whiteville Road and Powell Street to US 17 on Village Road; its old alignment of Bridger Road and Mulberry Street was downgraded to secondary roads. In 1949, NC 130 was extended north on new primary routing from Southport, through the Sunny Point Army Terminal (opened 1955) and Orton Plantation ...