The site closed to the public in mid-April to allow staff members to relocate offices, artifacts and exhibits to the site’s new long-awaited visitor center. Fort Fisher protected the port of ...

WILMINGTON – Historians, Civil War buffs, and people curious about what happened at one of the largest forts ever built in the United States will gather at the Fort Fisher State Historical Site ...

KURE BEACH, N.C. (WECT) - The state has announced that the new visitor center at the Fort Fisher State Historic Site will ...

Parking is available at the visitor center, located at 1610 S. Fort Fisher Blvd. in Kure Beach, but consider carpooling with friends and family if possible. There is limited extra parking ...

Fort Fisher State Historic Site’s newly renovated Visitors Center is a 20,000-square-foot facility, three times larger than the original center. It includes a 100-seat theater for films and ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The 160th Anniversary of the Second Battle of Fort Fisher is this weekend. The anniversary commemoration will begin on Jan. 18 and the doors open at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m ...

Fort Fisher's cannons will be fired during the upcoming 160th commemoration of the capture of the fort by U.S. forces in January 1865. Parking is available at the visitor center, located at 1610 S.