Scuppernong Scuppernong River in North Carolina mainly along the coastal plain. It was first mentioned as a "white grape" in a written logbook by the Florentine explorer Giovanni de Verrazzano while exploring the Cape Fear River Valley in 1524. He wrote "...Many vines growing naturally there...". Sir Walter Raleigh's explorers, the captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, wrote in 1584 that North Carolina's coast was "...so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them...in all the world, the like abundance is not to be found." He may have been referring to Sargasso seaweed from coral
Stoney Creek (North Carolina) Stoney Creek (North Carolina) Stoney Creek, or Stony Creek, is a watercourse in Wayne County, North Carolina, USA, that flows through the city of Goldsboro, North Carolina in its lower course before joining the Neuse River. Stony Creek is named in local records as early as 1756. In the Price map of 1808 it is called Rocky Creek. It is a tributary of the Neuse River. It is about long. The Stoney Creek watershed covers in central Wayne County. The headwaters are near Wayne Executive Jetport at an elevation of about . From there the creek drops about 4 to