I love small town museums. Now Fayetteville, North Carolina is not really a small town and the Museum of the Cape Fear is in a big building but it has that small town feel. (Because of nearby Fort Bragg there are some Army museums here too. I already blogged about them.) Adjacent to the museum are the remains of an Arsenal. Originally a United States Federal Arsenal, it was abandoned to the Confederates. They used it for making ammo and repairing guns. It was destroyed by the Union Army during the Civil War.
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- The museum featured a full-size recreation of a stern wheeler that used to ply the area rivers.
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- Homage was paid to the area’s textile industry.
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- Old-fashioned retail store.
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- The nearby freeway destroyed some of the arsenal ruins, so here’s what’s left.
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- Each corner of the arsenal had a defensive tower. This is the ghost tower providing the location and scale of one of them.
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- Mostly dead tree because I find dead trees photogenic.
Hi Carl, thanks for the history tour. (A couple notes: the second last sentence is missing a word “They used . . .” and two slides have arsenal misspelled.)
Thanks, Dean. I fixed those now. I may have to appoint you “official proofreader.”
I appreciate the gesture but do prefer Grammar Nazi.