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Timeless stories from our 172-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
Known unknowns in the Cape Fear River
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From behind a parapet on the tower of Litchfield Villa, the Italianate mansion that marks the western edge of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I was barely able to make out —…