Talk:Merchants Millpond State Park

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Hate to be picky, but I see some problems with this article and wonder if it needs to be edited a bit...Here goes:
First: the history of the region. The article states "In the early 1700s, Hunters Millpond was built at the head of Bennetts Creek to provide a means of processing and marketing regional produce. Highway construction destroyed this millpond in 1922. But further downstream, Norfleets Millpond, which was built in 1811, thrived. Gristmills, a sawmill, a farm supply store and other enterprises made the area the center of trade in Gates County. Thus, the pond became known as Merchants Millpond."
This appears to be taken verbatim from the NC Parks website on Merchants Millpond. Is that allowed on Wikipedia?

Second: the reference to the American Alligator. I cannot find any reference to alligators in the Merchants MP State Park website (see Ecology tab). It mentions talk about some rare fish, the beavers, birds, frogs, mink, snakes (including the venomous Cottonmouth), etc etc....but nothing about alligators. That is quite odd. Surely they would be a major attraction?? I'm going to look for more sources on American Alligators. I've always heard (yeah, spoken like a true Wikipedian:) that the southern coastal plain of North Carolina (ie the Wilmington NC area) was their northernmost habitat....Gates County is almost to VA. I've never seen anything about alligators naturally that far north...Engr105th (talk) 00:21, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected: the Merchants MP State Park website does have photos of an alligator there. Not sure it was on the website when I posted above...btw, given the American Alligator was almost extinct - or greatly reduced - at one time in N.America, I suspect the Merchants MP gator(s) was a transplant, from fairly recently:) Engr105th (talk) 16:59, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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