From the Back Then column in the Wilmington (NC) Star News. The reporter looks back at Wilmington papers 100 years ago and tells what was going on Back Then.
The February 4, 1910, paper reported that there were efforts going on to make Fort Fisher a national park. The Star ran a report from the Reverend J. A. Smith of Wilmington and H. C. McQueen, also of Wilmington, who had attended a hearing in Washington D.C. on the subject. Two veterans of the Union forces also attended the hearing.
All were members of the Fort Fisher Survivors Association.
Fort Fisher never became a national monument, but it did finally become a North Carolina State Historic Site.
Efforts Even Back Then. --Old B-Runner
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