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Deer exhibit at Cape Fear Museum. Hurricanes! exhibit. Restored 1876 classroom at Cape Fear Museum. Fox exhibit at Cape Fear Museum. Cape Fear Museum of History and Science is a museum located at 814 Market Street in downtown Wilmington in southeastern North Carolina. Founded in 1898, it is the oldest history museum in the state. [1]
The Cape Fear Museum traces its roots back to March of 1898, when the United Daughters of the Confederacy opened the museum on the second floor of the Wilmington Light Infantry building at Fourth ...
The Project Grace development in downtown Wilmington will house the New Hanover County Library's main branch and a new location for the Cape Fear Museum.
The city of Wilmington is located 21 miles (34 km) upstream from the mouth of the Cape Fear River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean. During the war, Wilmington was one of the most important points of entry for supplies for the Confederacy. Its port traded cotton and tobacco in exchange for foreign goods, like munitions, clothing and foodstuffs.
For the latest episode of Cape Fear Unearthed, we talk about some of the important, notable and just plain cool photos in the sprawling collection. Take a deep dive into Cape Fear Museum's ...
Wilmington: New Hanover: Lower Cape Fear: Art: website, "museum without walls", public display in various buildings at University of North Carolina at Wilmington, includes clothing, textiles, jewelry, pottery, furniture, figures, drawings, photographs, prints and scrolls from all over the world Mystery Hill: Blowing Rock: Watauga: Western: Multiple
The film looks at past mass attacks on Blacks, including Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre, and how they connect to today. 2:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Cape Fear Museum.
Wilmington, located 30 miles upstream from the mouth of the Cape Fear River (which flows into the Atlantic Ocean), was among the Confederacy's more important cities. It ranked 13th in size in the CSA (although only 100th in the pre-war United States) with a population of 9,553 according to the 1860 census, making it nearly the same size as Atlanta, Georgia, at the time.