The Lordship Mermaids are a series of19th and early 20th-century mermaid sightings reported near the Stratford Point Lighthouse in the Lordship section of Stratford, Connecticut.
The legend of the Cape Fear mermaids centers on Mermaid Point in North Carolina, where the Deep and Haw rivers meet to form the Cape Fear River. Dating back to the 1700s, tales told by Revolutionary War soldiers describe mermaids sunning on sandbars, combing their hair, and singing, having traveled over 100 miles inland to wash seawater from their hair
