J.D. Shadduck of Oak Island, N.C., said he was fishing at Caswell Beach Sunday when he spotted the object. "It was my first time there fishing. The tide was low, so that's how I saw it," he said. "It looks like a cannon to me."
Fort Caswell is in Brunswick County and was built on the eastern tip of Oak Island between 1826 and 1838, according to NCpedia. However, it was not fully armed until the Civil War when it became one of the main Confederate defenses on the Care Fear River guarding Wilmington.
The U.S. Army took control of it until after World War I, when it was sold.
Since 1949, it has been owned by the Baptist State Convention of NC and serves "as a facility for programs and ministries of the Convention, according to the Fort Caswell website. The fort, however, is not open to the general public.
--Old B-Runner
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