Lake Waccamaw, NC

I visited Lake Waccamaw  today.  I liked how this tree covered with Spanish Moss stood against the lake and far shore (about 5 miles) in the early afternoon sun.  Waccamaw is a name from Native Americans, and members of the group still live in the general area of the lake.  A very popular surname among tribal descendants is Jacobs.  Internet Notes:
The Waccamaw inhabited the southeastern section of present-day North Carolina, living along the Cape Fear, Pee Dee, and Waccamaw Rivers. As a water-focused tribe, the Waccamaw were probably “seminomadic river-dwellers who subsisted on hunting and some farming” according to William G. DiNome. Like most other Native American tribes, the arrival of European settlers brought destruction to the Waccamaw.  At the beginning of the Native American-European contact, trade between the two flourished, but war and disease devastated the Waccamaw. The Tuscarora War that lasted from 1711 until 1713 and the Yamassee War of 1715 forced the tribe to retreat to Lake Waccamaw.  Meanwhile, the western Catawba tribe adopted some Waccamaw. After the Indian wars, the Waccamaw remained in obscurity until tribal surnames appeared on the 1790 U.S. Census Bureau.