Tar River
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Yet Princeville, on the banks of the Tar River in eastern North Carolina, is one hurricane away from disaster.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2022
For evidence, visit Princeville, N.C., a town of 2,000 on the Tar River.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2018
He imagines Bellamy eating eels, sturgeon and shad pulled from the Tar River, and envisions barrels of oysters being brought over from the coast.
From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2017
Jones says Hurricane Matthew’s floodwaters from the Tar River went around the 37-foot-high dike, rebuilt after Floyd.
From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2016
They were from a manufactory of Joel Battle at the falls of Tar River....
From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus
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