Local Legends in Leland, North Carolina

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Maco light

Leland, NC

The Maco Light was North Carolina's most famous ghost light: a swinging glow along the rail line at Maco Station near Wilmington, told for a century as the lantern of brakeman Joe Baldwin, decapitated in an 1867 accident. The tracks are gone, but the legend endures.

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