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978-0-89587-126-8
0-89587-126-2
$15.95 paperback
363 pages
maps, black-and-white photographs, appendix. index
Other books in the Touring the Backroads™ series:
Touring the Backroads of
North Carolina's Upper Coast
Touring the Backroads of
North and South Georgia
Touring the Carolinas
Civil War Sites
Touring the East
Tennessee Backroads
Touring the Middle
Tennessee Backroads
Touring North Carolina's
Revolutionary War Sites
Touring South Carolina's
Revolutionary War Sites
Touring the
Shenandoah
Valley Backroads
Touring Virginia's and
West Virginia's Civil War Sites
Touring the Western
North Carolina Backroads
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For those familiar with the
story of "Brad's Drink"--known today as Pepsi-Cola--North
Carolina's lower coast needs no introduction. People of more recent
vintage may remember headless Joe Baldwin, the Lumina, the Ghost Fleet
of Wilmington, Hurricane Hazel, and the Fort Fisher hermit.
Historians have remarked on
the irony that Masonboro Island--perhaps the first piece of American
coast written about by a European--is now deserted. North Carolina's
lower coast is not bothered by such contradictions. It is home to
pristine settings like Cape Lookout and Hammocks Beach State Park,
historical treasures like Fort Macon, Beaufort, Wilmington, and New
Bern's Tryon Palace, and popular tourist spots like the Crystal Coast,
Pleasure Island, and the Battleship North Carolina.
The 13 tours in this book
introduce the sights and history of the lower coast. Those visitors who
begin in the north with the ferry to Portsmouth village and partake of
the golf-cart ride around Bald Head Island may well find themselves all
the way south in Calabash, lining up for dinner with the rest of the
crowd.
about the author
Daniel W. Barefoot is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate of the University of North
Carolina School of Law. In 1994, he was appointed to the USS North
Carolina Battleship Commission by Governor Jim Hunt. Barefoot spent
more than 10 years compiling the information in this book and its
companion volume, Touring the
Backroads of North Carolina's Upper Coast. He is also the author
of Touring North Carolina's
Revolutionary War Sites and Touring
South Carolina's Revolutionary War Sites. He lives in
Lincolnton, North Carolina.
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