Lockwood Folly River or Lockwood's Folly River is a short tidal river in Brunswick County , North Carolina , United States. Waters from the Green Swamp drain into the river near Supply and flow southward to empty into the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway near Sunset Harbor . The Lockwood Folly Country Club in Varnamtown takes its name from the river.
7-684: Lockwood Folly Inlet is a nearby inlet connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway and was once the mouth of the Lockwood Folly River prior to construction of the Intracoastal and natural sand shifting. The inlet separates the barrier islands of Oak Island and Holden Beach Isle . There are two folklore stories that explain the genesis of the name "Lockwood Folly". The first states that
14-425: A man by the name of Lockwood began building the "boat of his dreams" along the banks of the river. Working tirelessly for many months, Lockwood finally completed his sailing ship, but when he tried to float the boat, he discovered that he had made the draft too deep to clear the sandbar at the inlet. So with no way to sail the ship out of the river, Lockwood disappointedly left the ship to rot. The locals began calling
21-482: A river in North Carolina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline , such as a small arm , cove , bay , sound , fjord , lagoon or marsh , that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake , estuary , gulf or marginal sea . In marine geography , the term "inlet" usually refers to either
28-404: Is Scandinavian for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals , e.g., Portland Canal , Lynn Canal , Hood Canal , and some are channels, e.g., Dean Channel and Douglas Channel . Tidal amplitude, wave intensity, and wave direction are all factors that influence sediment flux in inlets. On low slope sandy coastlines, inlets often separate barrier islands and can form as
35-452: The actual channel between an enclosed bay and the open ocean and is often called an "entrance", or a significant recession in the shore of a sea, lake or large river. A certain kind of inlet created by past glaciation is a fjord , typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes. Multi-arm complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds , e.g., Puget Sound , Howe Sound , Karmsund ( sund
42-399: The ship "Lockwood's Folly" and according to the story, eventually the name was applied to both the river and inlet. The second tale tells the story of a group of settlers led by a man named Lockwood that decided to colonize the banks of the river. Lockwood supposedly did not bring enough supplies or got into a dispute with the local Indian tribe and the colony had to be disbanded. According to
49-502: The story, the remains of the colony were named "Lockwood's Folly" and later the name came to encompass the nearby river and inlet. The river name appears on a John Ogilby map from 1671, making Lockwood's Folly River one of the oldest named rivers in North Carolina. This article about a location in Brunswick County , North Carolina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
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