Pender County is fortunate to have dedicated people who desire to preserve the past today! In honor of National Museum Week, the Pender County Tourism Development Authority salutes our county's museums. Missiles and More Museum features dug-out canoes and pirates and the guided missile technology developed on the island. Camp Davis memorabilia, an exhibit about women pilots, and a new exhibit of an Operation Bumblebee...
Celebrating America’s 250th with a Roadmap to Freedom CURRIE — The Moores Creek Battleground Association, in conjunction with the First in Freedom Festival, is pleased to present the Roadmap to Freedom Passport. The First in Freedom Passport booklet features more than 40 destinations, including the Wilmington Railroad Museum, Missiles and More Museum, N.C. Maritime Museum, Duplin County Veterans Museum...
The Pender County Tourism Development Authority is pleased to announce that Ocean Fest has been bestowed the 2026 Kaleidoscope Green Initiative Award and the Best Event Impact Support Award in its collaboration with Wilmington Compost Company. Ocean Fest, a Topsail Island-based festival featuring live music, vintage surf competitions and environmental programming, was notified by the Southeast Festivals and Events...
May 9 Historic 1726 Sloop Point Plantation House Event, Hampstead, North Carolina: A Charitable Benefit for Pender County Historical Society & Museum Sloop Point Plantation House, built in 1726, is among the rarest colonial buildings not only in the Cape Fear region, but in the entire state of North Carolina. Built 50 years before the Battle of Moores Creek and the Declaration of Independence, this year is the...
The First in Freedom Festival attracted more than 17,500 visitors to Moores Creek National Battlefield on Feb. 27-28 for the 250th commemoration of the victory at Battle of Moores Creek Bridge and the 250th Anniversary of America's Independence. The week started on Tuesday with a Naturalization Ceremony as the nation welcomed 57 new citizens at the very site of the first Patriots' victory of the Revolutionary...
