Mooresville Enterprise
I.D. Harris brought to the Enterprise office last Saturday afternoon a cocoanut which had been dug up out of the bed of one branch of Rocky River, which runs through his bottoms. A ditching force was at work cleaning the rafts and sandbanks from the creek channel and at a distance of four feet under the earth a cocoanut in its original husk was brought to the surface. Some of the ones working had never seen a cocoanut in full dress, and were strongly of the opinion that it was a petrified pumpkin, or something. Mr. Harris himself was in doubt as to the nature of the find, but was of the opinion that it might be a cocoanut. His doubts were satisfied when the husk was pulled off and there before his eyes was a genuine cocoanut. Mr. Harris was mystified as to how the cocoanut got in the stream and how long it had been buried there beneath the sand and mud.
From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 29, 1925. Coconut was also spelled “cocoanut” 100 years ago.
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