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alfway down Blossom Ferry Road in Castle Hayne, the pavement ends
and deep indentations in the sandy dirt road filled with marl crunch
beneath tires. A thick forest of dogwood, pine, oak, gum and wax
myrtle blankets the adjacent acres, not unlike the native landscape that
greeted explores more than 200 years ago.
Blossom Ferry Road led travelers and merchants on buggies, horseback or in wagons to
the Northeast Cape Fear River long before it was named for the late ferry owner, Samuel
Blossom. This was the colonial road that connected New Hanover County to the rest of the
country by way of ferry — one of the first in the region dating back to 1731.
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Robert W. Corbett ran Samuel Blossom’s Ferry on the Northeast Cape Fear River, connecting New Hanover
and Pender counties in the early 1900s.
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