Yesterday, I posted about the 1888 boat review on the Cape Fear River in which over twenty steamships with flags flying and bunting cruised by Wilmington, NC, blowing their steam whistles and so forth. It must have been quite a sight.
The boats started from a place on the Cape Fear River called Point Peter which I had never before heard of. I did some research and once again the MyReporter column in the Wilmington Star News came to my aid.
Point Peter is the land at the fork where the Cape Fear and Northeast Cape Fear rivers flow together north of Wilmington. It is believed the name came from Peter Mallet, a local planter and Revolutionary War leader. It has always served as a terminal for river traffic from Fayetteville.
River traffic during the Civil War would have passed it.
So, That's Point Peter., But There's More. --Old B-Runner
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