Also from HMDB, the original "History on a Stick" located at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, by US-421.
FORT FISHER
Built by the Confederacy.
Its fall, Jan. 15, 1865
closed Wilmington, last
important Southern port
for blockade runners.
This sign, close to Battle Acre, always excited a little boy's historical inclinations as I was growing up, especially before there was much to see back in the 1950s.
I always liked the two gates with words Fort Fisher on them north of the fort. Both had cannonballs on top. The gates still stand, but the cannonballs are gone.
Memories from the Past. -- Old B-Runner
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