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      • Howard Hewett
        • Part 1: The October – November Mullet Run
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        • Part 3: Ethyl-Dow Plant in Kure Beach
        • Part 4: Monroe Shigley – Plant Manager at Ethyl Dow Plant
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        • Part 7: Abundant Seafood on Federal Point – 1948-1956
        • Part 8: Remembrances of Life on Federal Point, 1940 -1959
      • Joseph Ryder Lewis Jr.
        • Part 1: CB Earthworks
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        • Part 5: The Hermit and the Buffer Zone
      • Mike Robertson
        • Part 1: Family
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        • Legacy of Hans and Ellen Kure
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      • Jennie Kure Robertson Bagley
      • Granddaddy – Crawford and Ed Lewis
      • Pearl Winner Fountain
      • Jimmy Davis
        • Part 1: Memories of the Boardwalk
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        • Part 3: Up and Down the Boardwalk
        • Part 4: World War II on the Beach
      • Earl and Margaret Page
        • Part 1: Family
        • Part 2: Army Truck
        • Part 3: Blue Top Cottages
        • Part 4: Fishing for Mullett
        • Part 5: Salting Fish
        • Part 6: Fort Fisher Pier
        • Part 7: Fishing
        • Part 8: Oysters and Clams
        • Part 9: Fort Fisher
      • Faye and Norris Teague
        • Part 1: Trailways and the Tie Factory
        • Part 2: Sand Castle Hotel
        • Part 3: Kure Beach Post Office
      • Brenda Coffey
        • Part 1: Living at Kure Beach
        • Part 2: Kids in Kure Beach
        • Part 3: Family Meals
        • Part 4: Kure Beach Celebrates
        • Part 5: Politics, Ft. Fisher, Seabreeze
        • Part 6: Hurricanes
      • Dorothy McQuillan
        • Part 1: Carolina Beach
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        • Part 3: Heglars Restaurant
        • Part 4: Freeman
      • Ray Rothrock
        • Part 1: Kure Beach
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        • Part 3 Fort Fisher
        • Part 4: Charter Fishing Marina
        • Part 5: Lewis Store
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      • Dub and Hazel Heglar
        • Part 1: Moving Houses
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      • Andy Canoutas
        • Part 1: Canoutas Restaurant
        • Part 2: A Kid in Kure Beach
        • Part 3: Town Attorney
      • Margaret and Bob Ford
      • Isabel Foushee
        • Part 1: Mackerel, Milk and Mountains
        • Part 2: Lewis Grocery
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      • Fessa’ John Hook
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Walk the Sugar Loaf Line of Defense with Chris Fonvielle!

Saturday March 21   (2 pm – 4pm) $10.00 donation requested.  Limited to 30 people Call 910-458-0502 for reservations We’re doing it again this year!  This is your chance to discover the Civil War ruins that stretch from Myrtle Grove Sound … read more

March 9, 2020Posted in Sugar Loaf EarthworksReply

May Meeting — Chris Fonvielle on the Battle of Sugar Loaf

Monday, May 20, 2019  7:30 PM The Federal Point Historic Preservation Society will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, May 20, 2019, at 7:30 pm at the Federal Point History Center, 1121-A North Lake Park Blvd., adjacent to Carolina Beach … read more

May 12, 2019Posted in Sugar Loaf EarthworksReply

Statement by Chris Fonvielle on Confederate Monuments

From Wilmington Star News (August 29, 2018)  “Our past has been good more often than not, but sometimes it has been bad and ugly. We must not forget any of it.” It has been my honor and privilege to serve … read more

May 12, 2019Posted in History ShortsReply

Boyhood Book Helped Forge Chris Fonvielle’s Career

By Ben Steelman StarNews Staff,  May 18, 2018   Civil War historian Chris Fonvielle is retiring from UNCW at the end of the spring 2018 semester. When Chris Fonvielle was 8 years old, the Civil War centennial broke out, and he received … read more

May 20, 2018Posted in Carolina Beach • Federal Point • Fort FisherReply

Walk the “Sugar Loaf Line-of-Defense” with Chris Fonvielle

    Saturday, April 22, 2017 – Rescheduled Original date of March 18, 2017 was canceled due to rain. Donation $10.00 To register call 910-458-0502. This program fills up quickly so call as soon as you can.       … read more

February 12, 2017Posted in FPHPS News • Sugar Loaf EarthworksReply

Chris Fonvielle – February Meeting

by Nancy Gadzuk The Federal Point Historic Preservation Society will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, February 16, 7:30 pm at the Federal Point History Center, 1121-A North Lake Park Blvd., adjacent to Carolina Beach Town Hall. Our speaker this … read more

February 8, 2015Posted in Fort Fisher • Lower Cape Fear River • Monthly Meeting ReportsReply

Walking Tour of “The Sugar Loaf Line of Defense” with Dr. Chris Fonvielle

Again this year, on Saturday March 21, 2015, our esteemed Society member and UNC-W History professor, Chris Fonvielle, will lead a fascinating walk through the remnants of General Robert Hoke’s Sugarloaf-line-of-defense. These embankments and earthworks, which kept the Union army from … read more

February 8, 2015Posted in Carolina Beach • Federal Point • FPHPS NewsReply

Chris Fonvielle Leads Walk to Sugarloaf – March 22, 2014

  Chris Fonvielle Leads: Walk to Sugarloaf Saturday March 22, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Parts of the Civil War “Battle of Fort Fisher” were fought across the Federal Point peninsula well north of the Fort itself. And … read more

March 8, 2014Posted in FPHPS News • Sugar Loaf Earthworks
Wilmington Water Tours

Civil War Prisoner Exchange with Dr. Chris Fonvielle – Nov. 17, 2013

WILMINGTON WATER TOURS November 17th – Sunday Civil War Prisoner Exchange with Dr. Chris Fonvielle Do Not Miss This One!   Dr. Chris Fonvielle will join us as we cruise up the beautiful Northeast Cape Fear River in her fall …

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November 9, 2013Posted in FPHPS News

Dr. Fonvielle: “1864: The Beginning of the End of the Civil War in North Carolina.

United Daughters of the Confederacy Sesquicentennial Talk Saturday September 6, 2014 – 10:00 AM On Saturday September 6, 2014 Cape Fear Chapter 2, United Daughters of the Confederacy will sponsor a lecture featuring Dr. Chris Fonvielle to mark the Sesquicentennial … read more

August 9, 2014Posted in Fort Fisher • FPHPS NewsReply
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