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July 21, 2016

$9M visitor center will tell story of Civil War site

KURE BEACH, N.C. (AP) — A new $9 million visitor center is planned for Fort Fisher in North Carolina to better tell the story of one the last strongholds of the Confederacy.

Local media outlets report the state historic site south of Wilmington attracts about 800,000 visitors a year. The existing visitor center built a half century ago was designed to accommodate only about 30,000 annually.


 
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