A supervised work began clearing the brush, committee members and history professor Chris E. Fonvielle Jr of UNCW, provided a comprehensive plan research document that determined the site to be a part of the Sugar Loaf Line of Civil War earthworks built across Federal Point Peninsula in late 1864 to provide communication and a backup line for the defense of Wilmington in case Fort Fisher )at the tip of Federal Point) fell to Union forces.
Over the past two years, seven planning sessions and numerous informal meetings were held at the History Center and at the site. Brush removal was tedious as it was done by hand and carried by hand some distance before it was removed by city heavy equipment.
--Old B-R'er
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