The Burgwin-Wright House has been magnificently restored and is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. An admission fee is charged. There is no better place to become acquainted with the natural character and history of the entire Cape Fear River basin. I have always been taken with the re-creation of the Civil War battle that took place at landmass is the most tropical spot in North Carolina. Such warm-weather plants as Spanish bayonets, palmettos, and palm trees grow here.
Tradition claims that frost has never touched the island.