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This list of museums in North Carolina is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Fort Fisher is the subject of an exhibit at the Cape Fear Museum in downtown Wilmington. Included are impressive dioramas of the fort and the Civil War waterfront of Wilmington originally created for the former acclaimed Blockade Runner Museum at Carolina Beach. Shows the present day of the land face of Fort Fisher in Wilmington, North Carolina
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum CSS H. L. Hunley: United States South Carolina: Charleston: Confederate States: 1863 Submarine: Warren Lasch Conservation Hall [23] [circular reference] CSS Neuse: United States North Carolina: Kinston: Confederate States: Albemarle class: Ironclad ram: CSS Neuse Civil War Museum [24] USS Hoga: United States ...
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.
Fort Sumter is an historic sea fort in the southeastern United States, near Charleston, South Carolina.Built on an artificial island at the entrance of Charleston Harbor to defend the region from a naval invasion, it was constructed after British forces captured and occupied Washington during the War of 1812 via a naval attack.
Wilmington has lots of historic neighborhoods, places with names like Sunset Park, Forest Hills and Love Grove. One neighborhood that's been largely lost to history is the old Maffitt Village ...
The Fort Sumter Visitor Education Center is located at 340 Concord Street, Liberty Square, Charleston, South Carolina, on the banks of the Cooper River. [3] The center features museum exhibits about the disagreements between the North and South that led to the incidents at Fort Sumter, particularly in South Carolina and Charleston.
The Murchison Building (location: ) enjoys a commanding view of Battleship Park and the floating museum USS North Carolina (ship memorial location: ) located across the Cape Fear River. The ship is viewable in aerial photography of the area, e.g. Google Earth and can serve as a landmark when pinpointing the building from them.