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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
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area is a 287-acre (1.16 km 2) [1] North Carolina state park in New Hanover County, North Carolina in the United States.Located near Kure Beach, North Carolina, it includes Fort Fisher, site of a major naval engagement during the American Civil War.
The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American Civil War in January 1865.
Robert E. Harrill, or Harrell (February 2, 1893 – June 4, 1972), was an American man also known as the Fort Fisher Hermit. He became a hermit in 1955, at the age of 62, having hitchhiked to Fort Fisher on the North Carolina coast from Morganton , North Carolina .
Fort Fisher Historic Site's new visitor center will be triple the size of the current visitor center.
Hoke commanded three of his brigades on the east side of the Cape Fear River, along Sugar Loaf north of Fort Fisher; Hoke's fourth brigade occupied Fort Anderson on the west side of the river. Bragg remained in Wilmington in order to remove a stockpile of government stores and also to prevent the Union forces on the coast from reinforcing Major ...
The Fort Fisher State Historic Site will temporarily close beginning Tuesday, April 16, while workers relocate exhibits, artifacts and staff offices to the new facility, according to a news ...
The mysterious death of North Carolina’s reluctant coastal celebrity will get an update in a new documentary. Did someone kill The Fort Fisher Hermit? NC filmmaker chases a 50-year-old cold case.