Topsail Beach in Pender County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Missile Tests

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 17, 2014

1. Missile Tests Marker

Inscription. U.S. Navy successfully tested ram jet engines in rocket flights, 1946-48. Observation towers line Topsail Island; Assembly Building 2 blocks west.

Erected 2008 by North Carolina Office of Archives and History. (Marker Number D-104.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Air & Space • War, Cold. In addition, it is included in the North Carolina Division of Archives and History series list.

Location. 34° 21.977′ N, 77° 37.733′ W. Marker is in Topsail Beach, North Carolina, in Pender County. It is at the intersection of South Anderson Boulevard (State Highway 50) and Flake Avenue, on the left when traveling south on South Anderson Boulevard. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 801 S Anderson Blvd, Holly Ridge NC 28445, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in North Carolina’s Coastal Plain and on the Cape Fear Coast.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

in the Tidewater,

and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North

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Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 15 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Topsail Battery (approx. 5½ miles away); Nicholas N. Nixon (approx. 10.2 miles away); George Davis (approx. 10.3 miles away); Davis-Patteson Cottage (approx. 14.2 miles away); Churchill Cottage (approx. 14.3 miles away); Hanby-Debnam Cottage (approx. 14.3 miles away); Myers Cottage (approx. 14.4 miles away); Ewing-Bordeaux Cottage (approx. 14.4 miles away).

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 17, 2014

2. Missile Tests Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2023. It was originally submitted on September 14, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 754 times since then and 30 times this year. Last updated on June 15, 2023, by Michael Buckner of Durham, North Carolina. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 14, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.