From the August 4, 2017, Wilmington (NC) Star- news "New Fort Fisher Visitors Center takes first step" by Adam Wagner.
Plans for the new 20,000 square foot center are underway.
Back in 2015, on the 150th anniversary of the fall of Fort Fisher commemoration, over 48 hours, some 23,000 people visited the current center, nearly as many as the it was supposed to host in a year's time.
Keith Hardison, N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources' director of N.C. Historic Sites said about the crowd: "Talk about overwhelmed. We felt a bit like the defenders of Fort Fisher, with the Union forces coming over, around and through," the fort.
--Old B-R'er
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