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What could be a better way to celebrate the new year? Join the Town of Burgaw & Pender County on December 31st from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (12 midnight GMT) for the 3rd Annual New Years Eve Blueberry Drop. Festivities take place in Historic Downtown Burgaw with live music, & family-friendly entertainment! We host some of your best food trucks around, a big crowd of happy people, and home in time for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
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109 N Walker Street
An island favorite started in 1988, is held on the grounds of the Historical Society of Topsail Island and the Assembly Building which houses the Missiles & More Museum in Topsail Beach, NC. The festival features a juried Artists’ and Crafts Court with over 100 regional artists displaying and selling their work. Enjoy exciting live musical entertainment, a variety of amazing food with beer and wine, games and rides for children, and much more!
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Topsail Beach
The Ghost Walk of Pender's Past is a family-friendly event that promises to be a ghostly good time. Come learn about Pender's Past on the grounds of the Historic Burgaw Cemetery. Listen to Mrs. Mattie Bloodworth gossip, hear mysteries of Topsail Island, learn about the haunting side of Burgaw, and hear many other tales, legends, and lore.
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Burgaw Antiqueplace
Just a family with a lot of Christmas lights that provide a musical light show to spread Christmas cheer that provides a family fun holiday event to enjoy. What was once Hampstead's best-kept secret is a must-do holiday tradition that has also been featured on ABC’s The Great Christmas Light Fight. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s many travelers on U.S. Highway 17 unknowingly drive past one of southeastern North Carolina’s best musical Christmas light shows. Nestled behind a small tree line is the half-hidden entrance to a Christmas wonderland.
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218 Old House Rd
The NC Blueberry Festival celebrates the historic, economic, and cultural significance of blueberries in the Southeastern region of North Carolina. The North Carolina Blueberry Festival is a great source of local pride, with the entire community involved in promoting Burgaw in its finest shade of blue with fresh blueberries from local blueberry farms and fresh BBQ. Shop downtown Burgaw for special Blueberry décor, gifts, & foods all created and sold by our hometown merchants. Cap off your first night in Blueberry Town by enjoying live music, the beer & wine tent, and dancing. Events include a BBQ Cookoff, a 7 am 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk, the 8 am Tour De Blueberry Bike Ride, kids area, all-day entertainment and live music, a car show, scholarship awards, and blueberry queens. The Festival grounds open at 9 am with lots of your favorite vendors selling food, homemade décor, jewelry, gifts, leatherwork, woodwork, candles, soaps and so much more! Make sure to visit their website!
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PO Box 1554
The NC Spot Festival is Pender County’s longest-standing festival celebrating tradition where the coast of Pender County celebrates one of its most abundant fish types, the Spot! The Spot Festival is a popular festival with Spot Fish Plates, Bands, Entertainment, Food Vendors, Arts & Crafts, Blow-up rides, and Hampstead's largest Firework display! Proceeds benefit the local Topsail Area Schools & the Pender EMS and Fire! With thousands in attendance and over 6,000 "Spot" dinner plates served annually, the festival is the largest fundraiser for the Topsail schools and the community. There is also an annual scholarship pageant held as queens represent the festival each year. Every year, the residents of Hampstead celebrate their history with the North Carolina Spot Festival. Hampstead is one of Pender County’s most growing communities. It prides itself on being the "Seafood Capital of the Carolinas,” a friendly pride that is evident with the large welcome sign and home to the NC Spot Festival!
Visit the Seafood Capital of the Carolina’s, visit the NC Spot Festival!
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PO Box 565 Hampstead
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Surf City
