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small islands at the mouth of the Cape 

 Fear River. Sand dunes and swamps. 

 Loblolly pine, cedar, palmetto, oaks 

 and wild olive principal trees. Pre- 

 served by owners. Southport, reached 

 by steamer from Wilmington, N. C., 

 thence by launch. Atlantic Coast Line 

 and Seaboard Air Line R. R. 



Areas of cypress swamp may be easily 

 reached from any of the coastal cities 

 and towns such as Elizabeth City, 

 Edenton, Washington, New Bern, Beau- 

 fort, on Norfolk-Southern Railroad; or 

 from Wilmington on the Atlantic Coast- 

 line or Seaboard Airline Railroads. 

 Typical savanna localities are found 

 near Burgaw, 25 mi. north of Wilming- 

 ton on the Atlantic Coastline Railroad, 

 or at Have lock, 25 mi. southeast of 

 Newbern, on the Norfolk-Southern R. R. 



Piedmont. University Forest. (C4.) 

 500 acres of deciduous and eastern 

 coniferous forest, level plain with hills, 

 sandy and rocky situations, springs and 

 brooks. Preserved by the University 

 of North Carolina. In Orange County, 

 one mile from Chapel Hill, Southern 

 Railway. 



*Riverside Park, Rocky Mount. (B3.) 

 This is an area of about 5 acres of forest 

 land in a 30 acre park bordering Tar 

 River, one mi. west of Rocky Mount, 

 in Nash County. The Park is owned 

 by the Rocky Mount Mills, Mr. Turner 

 B. Bunn, Secretary. It is to be used 

 perpetually as a public park. The 

 land is rolling and is where the higher 

 Piedmont land breaks off in the lower 

 lands of the coastal plain. The forest 

 is fairly typical, mixed hardwood and 

 pine of the eastern Piedmont and west- 

 ern Coastal Plain regions, containing 

 mature and young trees of shortleaf 

 pine, loblolly pine, southern red oak 

 (Quercus digitata], white oak, sweet 

 gum, and some 25 other species. The 

 remainder of the Park, containing 

 altogether about thirty acres, has been 

 recently thinned in order to obtain the 

 best development for the remaining 

 trees. The preserved area is to be left 

 uncut, and although some cutting has 

 been done in the past, it is left in a semi- 

 natural condition. The Park will be 

 visited by hundreds of people from the 

 town of Rocky Mount and the sur- 

 rounding country, and this area will be 

 valuable as an educational exhibit. 



The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 

 station of Rocky Mount is only two mi. 

 away, a hard-surface road leading to the 

 border of the Park. Well graded auto- 

 mobile roads wing through the Park 

 itself. 



Principal points of interest in the 

 mountains are Grandfather Mountain, 

 reached by bus about 25 mi. from Lenoir, 

 Carolina-Northwestern R. R.; Black 

 Mountains, reached by motor from 

 Black Mountain, Southern R. R. 15 mi. 

 east of Asheville; Pisgah Mountains by 

 motor 15 mi. southwest of Asheville; 

 Smoky Mountains 10 mi. north of 

 Bryson City, Southern R. R., 50 mi. 

 west of Asheville. 



Principal mountain summits of in- 

 terest, Roan Mountains, virgin spruce 

 forest, reached by driving 20 mi. from 

 Burnesville, Clinchfield R. R.; Mt. 

 Mitchell, reached (a) 15 mi. from Black 

 Mountain, Southern R. R., 15 mi. east 

 of Asheville ; Balsam Mountains, reached 

 (w) 6 mi. from Balsam Station, Southern 

 R. R., 35 mi. west of Asheville; Smokies, 

 10 mi. from Bryson City west, Southern 

 R. R., 50 mi. west of Asheville. 



Grandfather Mountain. (C3.) 1000 

 acres on the summit of the mountain. 

 Covered chiefly by hardwoods. Mostly 

 above 5500 ft. two mi. northeast of 

 Linville on the Eastern Tennessee and 

 Western North Carolina Railroad or 30 

 mi. Northwest of Lenoir on the Carolina 

 and Northwestern Railroad. 



Santille Creek Forest. *Large tract 

 of virgin hardwood, one of the best in 

 the southern Appalachians. Tract was 

 recently acquired by the Government. 

 Part of the area under the supervision 

 of the Ashville-Alton. The area is 

 known as the Olmstead tract. Located 

 on the Santille Creek, head waters of 

 the Checoh River. Located in Graham 

 County, 35 to 45 mi. from the Southern 

 Railway at Amherst, N. C. E. H. 

 Frothingham. 



*Pisgah National Game Preserve. 

 (B3.) 90,000 acres upper water shed of 

 the French Broad River. In Transyl- 

 vania, Haywood, Buncombe and Hen- 

 derson Counties, N. C. Mostly decidu- 



