The Future of Fort Fisher-- Part 1: New Visitors Center

From the Friends of Fort Fisher, July 27, 2017.

A meeting was held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday August 4 at the Fort Fisher Museum.

State Representative Ted Davis Jr. and North Carolina Department of Natural & Cultural Resources Secretary Suzi Hamilton and local officials presented the Future of Fort Fisher including major improvements and rebuilding parts of the fort.

Among the things to be done:

1.  Demolish existing visitors center.

2.  New visitors center to be built north of current one.

3.  The old one will become the parking area for the new one and will be enlarged.

4.  Recreate the earthen mounds and sally port.  (These were taken down when the Army built the airfield during World War II.)

--Old B-Runner