Shepherd’s Bombproof

Improved artillery made brick forts obsolete. Rooms covered with sand provided better protection for defenders.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

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Bible Depository

1828

Originally two stories, built as a depository by the South Carolina Bible Society on land purchased from the City for that purpose in 1828.

In 1882 the South Carolina Art Association acquired the building and used it for an ...

Shepherd’s Battery

Shepherd’s, one of the oldest batteries in the fort, guarded its western end.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

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Heiman's Brigade

Johnson's Division

C.S.A.

Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson's Division

Colonel Adolphus Heiman's BrigadeOn February 13, 1862, about noon, a Federal force under Colonel William R. Morrison, deployed in the woods opposite the right and center of this brigade and launched an attack against ...

Shepherd’s Battery

Shepherd’s, one of the oldest batteries in the fort, guarded its western end.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Betsy

On this site stood "Old Betsy," Las Vegas' first electric generator, which serviced the power needs of the new town. The generator, operated by the Consolidated Power and Telephone company, supplied electricity from 1906-1916. The company evolved into the Southern ...

Restoration of Shepherd’s Battery

Over the years man and nature destroyed much of Fort Fisher. Restoration of this battery was based on archaeological, historical, and photographic evidence.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

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Lamb Expands the Fort, 1862-1865

Col. William Lamb took command on July 4, 1862. For two years over 1,000 soldiers, slaves, and free blacks worked six days a week.

J.A. McMillan, a soldier at Fort Fisher, wrote: “They everlastingly make us work. … We work nine ...

Fred Morgan Kirby

(1861-1940)

Pioneer of the 5 & 10 cent store sales concept. He opened his first store in Wilkes-Barre in 1884. In 1912, he merged his 96 retail stores with F. W. Woolworth to form the vast international retail chain. A philanthropist, ...

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established by Congressional legislation and approved by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865. Its purpose was "...to care for him who shall have borne the battle..." as stated in President ...