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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.
The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge is a steel vertical-lift bridge in North Carolina. It carries US 17/US 76/US 421 across the Cape Fear River between Brunswick County and New Hanover County. It also carried U.S. Route 74 until that designation was shifted to the Isabel Stellings Holmes Bridge. It has a lift span that can be raised 135 feet (41 m). [2]
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
Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. While the N.C. Department of Transportation works on finishing up a $7.1 million preservation project on the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, Wilmington officials have been ...
The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in Wilmington will be closed in one direction or the other for weeks at a time this winter and spring. What to know. Repairs begin soon on busy Cape Fear River bridge.
During a visit to the Port City on Friday, a White House official made the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge his first stop.
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.
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