OF HISTORY AND SYNCHRONICITY I often describe Hillsborough to visitors as a crossroads of history and synchronicity. That could be said of Wilmington, too. These towns have a shared history. Hillsborough has a 600 million-year-old mountain with a panoramic view that goes on for miles. Down below, the scenic Eno River weaves through the Colonial-era town. The Native American Occaneechi (also spelled Occoneechee) tribe of Hillsborough and the Cape Fear Indians of Wilmington, whose origins have been lost to history, had lived in these areas for generations before John Lawson, an early 18th-century explorer, traveled through the Carolinas. With the coming of European settlers in the 18th century, two towns now Orange County Historical Museum. On this location the Constitutional Convention convened in 1788. 76 WBM may 2014 PHOTO COURTESY OF N.C. DIVISION OF PARKS AND RECREATION By Scotty Wa{hington crossroads
Wrightsville Beach Magazine May 2014
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