OLD PHOTOS OF THE TOWN OF RIVER BEND NC

I created this page partly from old photos received from town hall many years ago for River Bend's first web page which Councilman Jim Findley asked me to create. If you have any old interesting photos of River Bend I will be glad to add a few of them by scanning and returning them to you (not a shoebox full). Add a description on the back of each photo and place them in an envelope with your name, address and phone number on it. Drop it off on my porch at 110 Portside. No need to ring bell. 

Dave Wallace 

In September of 1967 Frank Efird began construction on the 12,000 acre site known as River Bend Plantation. The first phase included 636 homes on the Trent River and on the River Bend Golf Course. The next phase involved a lengthy dredging project which formed a channel linking inland lots with the river. Circling the channel's end is an area called Harbour Town including condominiums, shopping, tennis and recreation areas. Here are the beginnings of the planned development which became a town in 1980.

See River Bend history at http://www.riverbendnc.org/files/history2.pdf written around 1988 by Betty S. DeBow, Frank Efird, Thomas B. Montgomery, Helen Olson, Constantino T. Pietrini, Viola K. Smith, Paul Stewart, and Richard H. Wright.

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Early dredging of Plantation Canal in the '70s	Early dredging of Plantation Canal in the '70s	Early dredging of Plantation Canal in the '70s
Clearing land for Pier Point and setting pilings for pier	Building that became Scotchman store plus apartments	Clearing lots on Trent River
Town Hall not yet constructed	Early aerial view in late '70s with few homes	Harbour Town construction
Oldest standing house in River Bend (1920) on Old Pollocksville Rd.	Old school next door to old house was torn down in 2005	Abandoned cemetery on 11 acre parcel across US-17 from Shell station.
1918 tombstone in wooded cemetery	Broken tombstone of someone born in 1859	Red Caboose before restoration
Last photo of historic Old Pollocksville brick road behind Baptist Church built in early 1900s.	Oar House Restaurant about 1999	Tearing down Oar House to make way for new Marina Restaurant
Tearing down old Oar House Pier to make way for new floating pier	Old Country Club before it was rebuilt	New Marina bulkhead 1999
New Marina/Restaurant almost finished	Fishing store in new marina	Dredging of Plantation Canal starts in 2001
Dredge waste was piped all the way back to fill the low field where the Red Caboose now stands	Dredge in Plantation Canal	End of dredge pipe that filled the field across from Town Hall
Town Hall expanded in 2001	Plantation Canal about year 2000	Island Lake about year 2000

Updated 12/20/2014