It’s Bastille Day and we’re marking the occasion on these shores by remembering Crusoe Island. Legend has it that the Columbus County community, which now goes by the name Riverview, was founded by French refugees from the revolutions in France and Haiti. Supposedly Jean Formy-Duvall, a French army surgeon in the late 18th or early […]
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Crusoe Island and the French Revolution
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia on July 14, 2011 | 60 Comments »
