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Chowan Swamp Game Land (part) [25] Chowan Swamp State Natural Area; Merchants Millpond State Park; In 1811, the Norfleet family built the first dam at the millpond. At that time, it consisted of around 750 to 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) of water. The mill ground corn. In 1856 the Millpond was sold and became known as Williams Millpond.
Chowan Swamp State Natural Area — Coastal Plain Gates [2] 6,066 acres (24.55 km 2) [5] 1973 [2] Open Located along the northern shores of the Chowan River, this natural area is leased by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for management as part of the larger Chowan Swamp Game Land. Hemlock Bluffs State Natural Area: Piedmont ...
Flowing for approximately 50 miles (80 km) before ending in the Albemarle Sound on North Carolina's coast, the river drains about 4,800 square miles (12,000 km 2) of land in North Carolina and Virginia. Flowing through mostly swamp land with occasional high ground, the Chowan River grows to nearly two miles wide (3 km) at its opening to the ...
Chowan and lower Roanoke drainage basins. ... Briery Swamp Great Branch Meadow Branch; ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of North Carolina (1974)
Bertie County (/ ˌ b ɜːr ˈ t iː / bur-TEE) [1] [2] is a county located in the northeast area of the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,934. [3]
North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
The major rivers of Eastern North Carolina, from north to south, are: the Chowan, the Roanoke, the Tar, the Neuse and the Cape Fear. Many of those rivers are navigable far inland, owing to their breadth as they traverse the low, flat Atlantic Coastal Plain in the eastern part of the state.
North Carolina game lands are areas of public and private land comprising some 2,000,000 acres (8,000 km 2) in North Carolina managed by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for public hunting, trapping, and inland fishing.