Topsail Tower #3
by Cynthia Wolfe
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Topsail Tower #3
Artist
Cynthia Wolfe
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Photograph
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At the end of World War II, the United States Navy established a missile testing facility on Topsail Island, N.C. The site was one of three along the Atlantic coast, part of a top-secret project for assembling, firing, monitoring, and perfecting experimental ramjet missiles. Navy and Marine personnel, numbering 500 men, arrived in mid-1946 to begin installing the necessary facilities. The buildings included a number of masonry observation towers that are still standing, both beach- and sound-side.
Tower #3 was stripped of its one-story addition by Hurricane Fran in 1996
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February 15th, 2017
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