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The Cape Fear Museum, founded in 1898, has been at 814 Market St. since 1970.
The Lower Cape Fear LifeCare’s Cape Fear Festival of Trees will be held Nov. 17-Jan. 2, 2024. Through Jan. 2 at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher : Longtime local festival is a ...
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]
Holding 235,000 US gallons (890,000 L; 196,000 imp gal), Cape Fear Shoals is the largest of the aquarium's saltwater exhibits. The 24-foot (7.3 m)-deep replica of an offshore reef affords two-story, multi-level views of large sharks , stingrays , groupers , and moray eels .
Cape Fear is a prominent headland jutting into the Atlantic Ocean from Bald Head Island on the coast of North Carolina in the southeastern United States. It is largely formed of barrier beaches and the silty outwash of the Cape Fear River as it drains the southeast coast of North Carolina through an estuary south of Wilmington .
The Cape Fear region is home to three of the eight lighthouses in North Carolina. Cape Fear Facts: 10 things to know about lighthouses in the Wilmington area Skip to main content
Cape Fear is a coastal plain and Tidewater region of North Carolina centered about the city of Wilmington. [2] The region takes its name from the adjacent Cape Fear headland , as does the Cape Fear River which flows through the region and empties into the Atlantic Ocean near the cape.
The river, named for the Cape itself, is formed where the Haw and Deep rivers join together in Moncure, North Carolina. Along with its tributaries, it forms an area called the Cape Fear watershed ...