The new visitor center and archaeology facility carry a price tag of $2.5 million, funds primarily secured through state budget appropriations.
Nearly $3 million more is needed to complete the overall site improvement project, which includes reconstruction of a series of Civil War-era mounds. To clear the site for a runway, the Army bulldozed three of the mounds after activating Fort Fisher as a training base during World War II.
A fourth mound was taken out by the construction of U.S. Highway 421 before the war. US-421 ends at the "Rocks" by Battery Buchanan. Also, North Carolina's Fort Fisher Ferry is located there (where people can go across the Cape Fear River to Southport.
The idea is to tell a complee and inclusive story of Fort Fisher.
Construction of the Fort Fisher visitor center is expected to be complete by mid-to-late May 2024. Once the building is up and operating, the current visitors center will be torn down.
--Old B-Runner
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