This past Tuesday I paid my membership dues for three years ($20 a year)with this outstanding organization in Carolina Beach, North Carolina. I have belonged to it for six years now and sure wish I lived closer so I could take more advantage of their programs and do some work as well.
They are located on the present-day Carolina Beach Town Hall and offices which used to be the Blockade Runner Museum (which I so enjoyed and actually almost became an assistant curator there back in the 1980s). The structure the society's museum is in was also part of the Blockade Runner's grounds and was reputed to either be a real slave auction structure or a recreation of one. It has since been enclosed for the organization.
Federal Point is the original name of the long peninsula formed by the Cape Fear River and Atlantic Ocean. Fort Fisher was at the southern extremity of it. During the Civil War, it was renamed Confederate Point. Now it (between Carolina Beach and Kure Beach) is referred to as Pleasure Island. When Snow's Cut was constructed to connect the Cape Fear River and Myrtle Sound as part of the Intercoastal Waterway, the peninsula became, in effect, an island.
When the organization was formed , there was thought of calling itself Pleasure Island Historic Preservation Society, but that was deemed to be not serious enough for a history group, so the origainal name was taken.
Good Move. --Old B-Runner
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