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Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck Discontiguous District

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NRHP Reference #
  
85003195

Added to NRHP
  
23 December 1985

Area
  
120 ha

Nearest city
  
Holden Beach, Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Kure Beach, and Wilmington Beach, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods), Sidewheel Steamer

Nearest cities
  
Holden Beach, Topsail Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Kure Beach, Wilmington Beach

The Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck Discontiguous District is a historic district encompassing a collection of shipwrecks in the Cape Fear area of southeastern North Carolina. The district includes several clusters of underwater archaeological resources associated with as many as 21 shipwrecks dating to the American Civil War. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

List of shipwrecks

  • Ranger
  • Ella
  • USS Peterhoff
  • Beauregard
  • Sophia
  • Wild Dayrell
  • Phantom
  • Duoro
  • Hebe
  • Venus
  • Lynx
  • USS Iron Age
  • Bendigo
  • Elizabeth
  • Stormy Petrel
  • USS Aster
  • Arabian
  • Louisiana
  • Condor
  • CSS Raleigh
  • Modern Greece
  • one unknown vessel (site 0007NEI)

    • References

    Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck Discontiguous District Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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