Civil War
CASSIDEY SHIPYARD
Confederate shipyard and outfitting station which completed the ironclad steam sloop Raleigh in 1863. Site is three blocks west.
DDD-3New Hanover County
Where it stands. US 17 Business (Third Street) at Church Street in Wilmington
There is a saying among the Masai of Africa—or maybe it's the Somali—that a brave man is frightened three times by a lion: when he first sees its track, when he first hears its roar, and when he first sees the lion in the flesh.