Monkey Junction, North Carolina | |
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Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
County | New Hanover |
Time zone | Eastern |
Monkey Junction is an unincorporated area near Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, in New Hanover County at the intersection of College Road ( NC 132) and Carolina Beach Road ( US 421). It is one of several centers of recent commercial and residential growth near Wilmington. [1] In 2008, Wilmington began controversial efforts to annex the community, but in 2012, the annexation requests were overturned by the North Carolina General Assembly. [2] [3]
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. 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. [4] The bus driver would stop near the station and announce "Monkey Junction".
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.
34°08′24″N 77°53′37″W / 34.1400°N 77.8935°W
Monkey Junction, North Carolina | |
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Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
County | New Hanover |
Time zone | Eastern |
Monkey Junction is an unincorporated area near Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, in New Hanover County at the intersection of College Road ( NC 132) and Carolina Beach Road ( US 421). It is one of several centers of recent commercial and residential growth near Wilmington. [1] In 2008, Wilmington began controversial efforts to annex the community, but in 2012, the annexation requests were overturned by the North Carolina General Assembly. [2] [3]
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. 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. [4] The bus driver would stop near the station and announce "Monkey Junction".
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.
34°08′24″N 77°53′37″W / 34.1400°N 77.8935°W