Wilmington, NC Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Though it's the largest town on North Carolina's coast, WILMINGTON , set back along the Cape Fear River fifty miles short of the southern border, has a welcoming down-home feel. During the Civil War, it was briefly the Confederacy's most important harbor, exporting cotton all over the world. " Blockade-runners " would attempt to outrun the Union navy, racing into the safety of Fort Fisher's guns some twenty miles to the south of town; "Rebel Rose" Greenhow, glamorous Confederate spy, drowned here during a run in 1864. Dozens of blacks were murdered in Wilmington by white … more »