Fort Fisher State Historic Site

The ⁠‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌⁠site of the Confederacy's largest earthwork fort, whose fall in January 1865 closed the port of Wilmington. Visitors walk the surviving earth mounds by the ocean, and the site holds living-history days with artillery firings and an annual anniversary commemoration each January.