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• #NEW HANOVER COUNTY LIBRARY MONKEY JUNCTION DRIVER#

Non-natives can be readily identified as they refer to the locale as it appears on maps "Myrtle Grove Junction", a reference to the local residential neighborhood nearby. Join New Hanover County 4-H with our 3rd Annual 4-H Food Drive Caring Hearts, Helping Hands service project to provide assistance to families throughout central. Sweeney WTP treats and distributes water within the City of Wilmington, parts of Ogden, Monkey Junction, King’s Grant and the Flemington/421 Corridor. Soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Fisher were also regular customers who enjoyed being entertained by the monkeys. The property comprises over 64 acres of undeveloped land on the 4400 block of South College Road. They also agreed it was a good stop-gap between Monkey Junction and 17th Street for restaurants.

#NEW HANOVER COUNTY LIBRARY MONKEY JUNCTION DRIVER#

The bus driver would stop near the station and announce "Monkey Junction". Earlier this month, New Hanover County Planning Board unanimously approved the development. The station, run by Dina and Jack Spindle, kept live monkeys in order to attract customers from a bus that passed by on the way to and from Carolina Beach, which lies several miles south of the junction. It was named for the House of Hanover, which was then ruling Great Britain.

The county was formed in 1729 as New Hanover Precinct of Bath County, from Craven Precinct. The intersection has been known as "Monkey Junction" for almost seventy years, due to a gas station that was located there from the late 1930s through the mid-1970s. Though second smallest in area, it is one of the most populous as its county seat, Wilmington, is one of the states largest cities.

In 2008, Wilmington began controversial efforts to annex the community, but in 2012, the annexation requests were overturned by the North Carolina General Assembly. It is one of several centers of recent commercial and residential growth near Wilmington. Monkey Junction is an unincorporated area near Wilmington in New Hanover County at the intersection of College Road ( NC 132) and Carolina Beach Road ( US 421). Northerly view of Monkey Junction in September 2021, taken from the junction's southeast corner.