Preliminary chart of Frying Pan Shoals and entrances to Cape Fear River, North Carolina.

• Main Author: United States Coast Survey.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources 1857
• Subjects: Cape Fear River (N.C.) > Maps.;Frying Pan Shoals (N.C.) > Maps.;Cape Fear River (N.C.) > Navigation.;Fear; Cape (N.C.) > Maps; Nautical charts > North Carolina > Cape Fear River.;Nautical charts > North Carolina > Fear; Cape; Region.;Nautical charts > North Carolina > Frying Pan Shoals; Adolph; Smith Island
• Online Access: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/ncmaps,5351

Print, mounted. The map was engraved by John Peter Van Ness Throop and Adolph Maedel. It illustrates the Western Bar Channel and New Inlet entrances to the Cape Fear River, and the courses of navigation from the ocean through the entrances and up river to Smithville (now Southport) and Wilmington re...