The Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson site (Fort Anderson was built across the ruins of the Colonial town of Brunswick during the Civil War) will also will be debuting a few new exhibits to encourage locals and tourists to make the trek out to Brunswick County, including an inciteful 3-D model of what the ruins of St. Philips Church would have looked like before the American Revolution.
"We're going to have another new exhibit based on Fort Anderson highlighting it as a quarantine fort," Said Jim McKee. "It is really the only thing that is completely born out of COVID because it allows us to tell how the fort's primary purpose was as a quarantine station along the Cape Fear River. So it is totally appropriate for the time."
Blockade runners coming into Wilmington during the Civil War would have to stop at Fort Anderson to make sure they didn't also bring in diseases.
--Old B-R'er
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