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
Little River, South Carolina Little River, South Carolina Little River is a census-designated place (CDP) in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 8,960 at the 2010 census. Little River is named for the Little River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the border between North and South Carolina. The inlet has long been a breakpoint for tropical cyclone warnings. Little River is located at (33.871629, -78.627733). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 10.8 square miles (28.0 km²), of which 10.5 square miles (27.1 km²) is land and 0.4 square mile (0.9 km²)