Play It Safe, Stay Off the Fort Fisher Rocks-- Part 1

From the May 7, 2017, Wilmington (NC) Star-News.

A March 25, 2017, editorial in the paper stated "Fort Fisher's "The Rocks" are now safe."

This headline came about after the North Carolina General Assembly voted down a bill to open them.

So, "The Rocks:" are safe, but walking on them is not so safe.

They were built in 1870 by the Army Corps of Engineers and closed New Inlet, a favorite Civil War blockade runner route, to keep out sand sifting into the Cape Fear River.  The head of the construction was Henry Bacon, father  of the Henry Bacon who designed and built the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C..

--Old B-Runner