The South River is a tidal estuary, approximately 8 mi long (13 km) long in Carteret County, North Carolina in the United States.
It flows NNE and empties into the estuary of the Neuse River near its entrance into Pamlico Sound. The town of South River sits on western side near its mouth.
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“My course is a firm assertion and maintenance of the rights of the colored people of the South according to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, coupled with a readiness to recognize all Southern people, without regard to past political conduct, who will now go with me heartily and in good faith in support of these principles.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“but we wish the river had another shore,
some further range of delectable mountains,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)