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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Henry Nutt Papers, #1440-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Oscar A. Hamilton of Chapel Hill, N.C., March 1948.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Cape Fear River (N.C.)--Navigation--History--19th century.
• Harbors--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Nutt, Henry, fl. 1843-1881.
• Public works--North Carolina--Wilmington--History--19th century.
• River engineering--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Rivers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• United States. Army. Corps of Engineers--Civil functions.

Henry Nutt (fl. 1843-1881), of Wilmington, N.C., was a merchant and director of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad. He also served on the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce and was actively involved in the improvement of the city harbor and of navigation in the Cape Fear River.

The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and a few related items, almost all relating to the improvement of the river and the harbor, 1843-1881, and a manuscript report (29 pages), 1853, of United States Army engineers on the improvement of the river below Wilmington, N.C.