If you visit the Carolina Beach, North Carolina, Townhall on US-421 (right next to the Federal Point Historical Museum) you can see a diorama of the death of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, as her longboat from the blockade runner Condor overturned in heavy surf and she drowned. There are several other Civil War Cape Fear dioramas as well.
The Greenhow diorama and the other ones were originally in the Blockade Runner Museum which closed in the 1980s and were stored until a few years ago at the Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington.
I used to spend a lot of time at the Blockade Runner Museum and it is good to see the dioramas again. The Cape Fear Museum also has the diorama of Fort Fisher and the Wilmington riverfront during the war which are on display..
--Old B-Runner
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