If you visit the Carolina Beach, North Carolina, Townhall on US-421 (right next to the Federal Point Historical Museum) you can see a diorama of the death of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, as her longboat from the blockade runner Condor overturned in heavy surf and she drowned. There are several other Civil War Cape Fear dioramas as well.
The Greenhow diorama and the other ones were originally in the Blockade Runner Museum which closed in the 1980s and were stored until a few years ago at the Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington.
I used to spend a lot of time at the Blockade Runner Museum and it is good to see the dioramas again. The Cape Fear Museum also has the diorama of Fort Fisher and the Wilmington riverfront during the war which are on display..
--Old B-Runner
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Carolina Beach (NC) Town Hall Gets Historic Fort Fisher Exhibits New Life-- Part 1
From the June 9, 2016, WWAY 3 ABC (Wilmington, NC) by Taylor Yakowenko.
Four exhibits will be unveiled next week at the Carolina Beach Town Hall on US-421. The Friends of Fort Fisher were instrumental in getting these exhibits. They were originally a part of the collection of the long-closed Blockade Runner Museum in Carolina Beach, according to Friends of Fort Fisher executive director Paul Laird.
The diorama inserts had been in storage in the basement of the Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington for over 30 years and not accessible to the public.
I remember seeing these exhibits often as the Blockade Runner Museum was a major hang out for me back when I was growing up. As a matter of fact, the Carolina Beach Town Hall is located in the building that used to be the Blockade Runner Museum, so, in effect, the exhibits are returning to their former home.
I Know Where I'm Going This August. --Old B-Runner
Four exhibits will be unveiled next week at the Carolina Beach Town Hall on US-421. The Friends of Fort Fisher were instrumental in getting these exhibits. They were originally a part of the collection of the long-closed Blockade Runner Museum in Carolina Beach, according to Friends of Fort Fisher executive director Paul Laird.
The diorama inserts had been in storage in the basement of the Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington for over 30 years and not accessible to the public.
I remember seeing these exhibits often as the Blockade Runner Museum was a major hang out for me back when I was growing up. As a matter of fact, the Carolina Beach Town Hall is located in the building that used to be the Blockade Runner Museum, so, in effect, the exhibits are returning to their former home.
I Know Where I'm Going This August. --Old B-Runner
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