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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GMW_north-carolina-shipbuilding-co_Wilmington-NC.html
Constructed 243 vessels at shipyard one mile west, 1941-1946. Its first Liberty Ship, the S.S. Zebulon B. Vance, launched Dec. 6, 1941.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GMV_fall-of-wilmington_Wilmington-NC.html
Union assault on Hoke's entrenched Confederates led to the city's fall, February 22, 1865. Earthworks were nearby,
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GMT_state-salt-works_Wilmington-NC.html
The state of North Carolina to relieve a wartime scarcity, operated salt works from here to Myrtle Grove Sound, 1861-64.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ27_last-stand-at-wilmington_Wilmington-NC.html
Here, in the earthworks in front of you, Confederate Gen. Robert F. Hoke's troops made a stand on February 20-21, 1865. They were attempting to halt the Union army's advance on Wilmington, the Confederacy's principal seaport. Blockade runners, tog…