Modern Greece

Modern Greece is a North Carolina historical marker in New Hanover County, dedicated 2012.

US 421 (Fort Fisher Boulevard) in Kure Beach

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Blockade runner. Ran aground and sank 400 yds. E., June 1862. Its salvage 1962 led state to open an underwater archaeology office.

TodayHistorical map

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Historical maps covering this location

1818 · North Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1823 · North Carolina (Lucas, 1823) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1863 · Monitor map, showing the whole seacoast from Chesapeake Bay, down to Savannah harbor, and… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1891 · (Virginia, N. Carolina) Railroad Map of the United States. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Monitor map, showing the whole seacoast from Chesapeake Bay, down to Savannah harbor, and…, 1863, covering the location of Modern Greece, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Monitor map, showing the whole seacoast from Chesapeake Bay, down to Savannah harbor, and…, 1863, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Modern Greece

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