From the October 2, 2021, Wilmington (NC) Star-News by John Staton.
It has now been sixty years since the famed battleship USS North Carolina arrived at her permanent home of Wilmington, North Carolina.
It arrived October 2, 1961, before over 100,000 onlookers and moored across from Wilmington on the west bank of the Cape Fear River.
It was dedicated on April 29, 1962, as a memorial to the more than 10,000 North Carolinians who died fighting in World War II. For the past sixty years, the 728-foot decommissioned Navy vessel has not only been a vital part of the downtown Wilmington skyline, but also its economy, attracting tens of thousands of visitors a year, including more than 200,000 since October 1 of last year. (Not too bad in these days of the pandemic.)
--GreGen
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