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Unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States
Monkey Junction, North Carolina
Unincorporated community
Northerly view of Monkey Junction in September 2021, taken from the junction's southeast cornerNortherly view of Monkey Junction in September 2021, taken from the junction's southeast corner
CountryUnited States
StateNorth Carolina
CountyNew Hanover
Time zoneEastern

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. In 2008, Wilmington began controversial efforts to annex the community, but in 2012, the annexation requests were overturned by the North Carolina General Assembly.

History

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. 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.

References

  1. "Nearly 250 new townhomes proposed near Monkey Junction".
  2. "Wilmington Approves Controversial Monkey Junction Annexation". Carolina Journal -. June 25, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  3. "North Carolina stops annexation of Monkey Junction". WWAYTV3. May 30, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  4. "Beginnings of familiar people and places" in Wilmington Magazine, April 4, 2007. Retrieved May 8, 2008.

34°08′24″N 77°53′37″W / 34.1400°N 77.8935°W / 34.1400; -77.8935

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