Visit Wilmington's New Hanover County Library

From the December 22, 2017, Wilmington (NC) Star-News  "On the Map: Dig up the past in the North Carolina Room" by Ben Steelman.

The North Carolina Room has a local history collection consisting of 200,000 books and bound materials.

For Civil War buffs, one is a Union chart showing plans for the attack on Fort Fisher.

They also have several runs of old Wilmington newspapers, some covering the Civil War years.

--Old B-Runner