Wayne Community College sends two more cannons to Fort Macon

Chad Pate, right, welding instructor at Wayne Community College, pilots a replica of a Civil War cannon, while Ted Koger, computer integrated machining instructor, helps guide the cannon. The aluminum cannon is one of two created by students at the college. They will be placed at Fort Macon after being painted by the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation.

News-Argus/MICHAEL BETTS

Two more Civil War replica cannons have been crafted by Wayne Community College students and are being taken to Fort Macon State Park in time for its 150th Civil War Re-enactment in April.

Machining and welding students followed plans previously drawn by WCC mechanical engineering students based on 1840s-era renderings of...

Full story

Bridal 2012

Restaurants

    • Zaxby's
    • 104 N Berkeley Blvd, Goldsboro

    • Poll

    For whom would you cast your "straw poll" vote if you were in Iowa?

    View Results Poll Archive

    CarFinder

    RentalFinder