Water and Rails

 

Lumber River . A favorite quote about the Lumber River appeared in John Charles McNeill's Argus “writing about the Lumber River , to a man who has spent his summers in dalliance with her, is like writing about his sweetheart. She is coquettish, as subject to change, as teasing as any girl that goes; and no human angel ever possessed more variable hues and tints and shadows in her misty eyes than this unconscious flirt.”

Iron Bridge . This wonderful iron bridge typical of those installed in the early 1900s was located over the Lumber River just outside of Lumberton near the Robeson County Health Department.

Straightline at Alma . This postcard of an autumn sunrise shows a section of railroad between Alma and Maxton. This section is part of the longest stretch of straight railroad track in the United States which runs between Wilmington and Old Hundred in Scotland County . The Wilmington , Charlotte and Rutherfordton Railroad laid 78.86 miles of straight through pine forest and swamps.