America's Wetland: An Environmental and Cultural History of Tidewater Virginia and North Carolina

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213 notes Citations starting with ‘‘RTS’’ and followed by a number and/or initials refer to pagination and interviewee as found in the author’s original notebooks. Copies are filed with the Tyrrell County Genealogical and Historical Society, Columbia, North Carolina , and the Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Introduction 1. McAvoy 1992; McAvoy and McAvoy 1997, 2003; Oaks and Coch 1963; E. Berry 1907; Russell et al. 2009; Haire et al. 1996, 14, 41. 2. Sawyer 2007a, 2007b, 2008a, 2008b, 2009. 3. Martof et al. 1980; Palmer and Braswell 1995; Meyers and Pike 2006. 4. For example, Kirk 1979; Rose 2000; Royster 2000; Simpson 1997, 1998. 1. Ice-Age Enclave 1. Oaks and Coch 1963; S. Olson 1977; Gaskell 2000; Russell et al. 2009; Hobbs 2004; Riggs and Ames 2003; Beyer 1991; Cronin et al. 1981. 2. Clark, Mitchell, and Karriker 1993. 3. McAvoy 1992; McAvoy and McAvoy 1997, 2003; Flanagan 2000, 16; Russell et al. 2009. 4. Firestone et al. 2007; McAvoy 1992; McAvoy and McAvoy 2003; E. Berry 1907; Russell et al. 2009; Davis 2006. See also Science 323 (2009): 26, 94; Nature Geoscience 2 (2009): 202–5. 5. Kirk 1979, 44, 48, 49, 50, 54; Scarry and Scarry 1997; VanDerwarker 2001. 6. Eastman 1994a, 6. Note that care is advised in interpreting the absolute ages of these canoes from radiocarbon technology, in that samples taken from the heartwood of an old tree may be hundreds of years older than the outside when the tree was cut. 7. Rountree 1989, 34. 8. Hyde County, High Tides 25 (Spring 2004): 2, 3; Eastman 1994a, 19; Eastman 214 W Notes to Pages 14–23 1994b, 56–63; Ruffin 1839, 728; Quinn 1991, 1:104–5, 432–33, 461; Hulton 1984, 73, 118, 119; Rountree 1989, 32. 2. Relict Fauna 1. See, for example, Linzey 1998; Palmer and Braswell 1995; Martof et al. 1980; Radford, Ahles, and Bell 1968; Clark, Mitchell, and Karriker 1993; Stephenson 2002, 58 (photo of seal on Meherrin River); USDA n.d. The eastern diamondback rattlesnake and Venus flytrap are currently known as far north as Craven County and Beaufort County, North Carolina, respectively. 2. Russell et al. 2009. 3. Richmond 1963; Beyer 1991, 182–83. 4. O’Brien and Doerr 1986; Meyers and Pike 2006; Scarry and Scarry 1997; VanDerwarker 2001. 5. Smith et al. 1990; Sturman 2005, 312; Brickell 1737, 133, 179. 6. North Carolina Times (New Bern), 24 Mar. 1864; Daily Reflector (Greenville, NC), 24 Nov. 1886, 12 Sept. 1894, 27 Mar. 1895, 6 Aug. 1901, 19 Aug. 1959, 14 June 1960; Washington Gazette (Beaufort County, NC), 12 June 1884. 7. Janson 1935, 314. 8. Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, NC), 16 and 18 May 1935. 9. Palmer and Braswell 1995, 271; RTS (LJC, 69). 10. Rose 2000, 166, referring to Richmond 1963. 11. Stephenson 1995, 95. 12. Brickell 1737, 133, 179. 13. The Albemarle peninsula population of alligators extends to latitude 35\55% N, whereas the Chinese alligator population of Anhui Province extends to 34\40% N. 14. Daily Reflector (Greenville, NC), 29 July 1959. A photo of the killed alligator is in the Joyner Library, Special Collection, The Daily Reflector Collection, #741.18.c.63. 15. Rountree 1989, 49, citing Strachey 1612, 72; Hodge 1910, 299. 16. Quinn 1991, 1:358, 432; Hulton 1984, plate 43, figs. 9, 15, 74. 17. Strachey 1612, 126. 18. Lawson 1967, 150. 19. Brickell 1737, 202. 20. Whan and Rising 2009; Rogers and Hammer 1998; ‘‘2004 Annual Report of the North Carolina Bird Records Committee,’’ Carolina Bird Club, www.carolinab irdclub.org. For an excellent discussion of the current status of the trumpeter swan in the eastern United States see Birding 34 (4) (2002): 338–45. 21. Salter and Willis 1972, 10. 22. Forrest 1999, 116. 23. Ruffin 1861, 151. 24. Dunbar 1958, 35, 148, citing G. R. Weiland, ‘‘Currituck Sound, Virginia and North Carolina,’’ American Journal of Science, Series 4, 4 (19) (1897): 76–77. 25. Dunbar 1958, 148, citing E. Dean, ‘‘Currituck County,’’ The State 18 (2) (1950): 3. (Dunbar added, ‘‘Currituck was undeserving of Dean’s superlative statement, but the area did become very popular with sportsmen after the Civil War.’’) 26. L.S. 1868. 27. New York Times, 24 May 1956; Barnes 2001, 112; M. Berry 2006. 28. Daily Independent (Kannapolis, NC), 15 and 19 Aug. 1955; Statesville Record (Statesville, NC), 22 Aug. 1955. [18.191.135.224] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 17:38...