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Orton Plantation Area - Brunswick County, NC.
Orton Plantation, Brunswick County
Orton Plantation in Brunswick County on the west bank of the Cape Fear River dates from 1725 and was built by "King" Roger Moore (ca. 1694-1751). It remained in the Moore family for three generations. Other owners were Richard Quince, General...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Dr. J. B. Sidbury, Jr. and Dr. George M. Koseruba
Koseruba family, Sidbury family, physicians, medicine, Rayle family
Dr. James Buren Sidbury, Jr., son of James Buren, Sr. and Willie Daniel Sidbury, was born January 13th, 1922, in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father James and sister, Rowena S. Hall Lenart, were also Physicians (Pediatrics). He married Ms....
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Dr. Hooper, Sr., Dr. Koonce and Dr. McEachern
Hooper family, Koonce family, McEachern family, physicians
Dr. Joseph Ward Hooper, Sr. (1887-1952), was born in Baltimore, Maryland February 17, 1887. He married Louise Smallbones and they had a son, Joseph Ward Hooper, Jr., who was also a Physician. He received his M.D. from the University of Maryland in...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

North Front Street - 200 block.
N. Front Street, Murchison, Chestnut Street
Chestnut Street - 100 block - north side The main buildings are (from left) the first floor of the Murchison Building, (built 1913/1914); the Murchison National Bank-Acme Building (1902) and the tall building to the left, the Cape Fear Hotel...
Louis T. Moore Collection

James Walker Memorial Hospital - Front view.
James Walker Memorial Hospital, Hospitals
A contractor, James Walker was a native of Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland, who came to Wilmington in 1857, after helping to construct one of the wings of the U. S. Capitol Building and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. He built the...
Louis T. Moore Collection

James Walker Memorial Hospital - Slightly different view.
James Walker Memorial Hospital, Hospitals
A contractor, James Walker was a native of Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland, who came to Wilmington in 1857, after helping to construct one of the wings of the U. S. Capitol Building and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. He built the...
Louis T. Moore Collection

James Walker Memorial Hospital - Slightly different view.
James Walker Memorial Hospital, Hospitals
A contractor, James Walker was a native of Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland, who came to Wilmington in 1857, after helping to construct one of the wings of the U. S. Capitol Building and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. He built the...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Orton Plantation
The original one-and-one-half story plantation house was built for "King" Roger Moore (1694-1751), native of Goose Creek, SC and first permenant settler in the Lower Cape Fear region. Fredrick Jones Hill (1792-1861), physician, planter, and NC...
Port City Architecture

Dr. Ivan Brouse and Dr. Graham Barefoot
Brouse family, Barefoot family, physicians, medicine
Dr. Ivan Edwin Brouse (1898-), son of Jacob Edwin and Christina Chalmers Crosbie Brouse was born December 15th, 1898 in New Denver, B.C., Canada. His father was aldo a Medical Doctor. He married Vera Perritt and attended McGill University where he...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Dr. James Dickie and Dr. Robert M. Fales
Dickie family, McDonough family, Fales family, Taylor family, physicians, medical profession
Dr. James William Dickie, son of Herbert Gratsby, Sr. and Kate DuRant Dickie, was born September 20th, 1916 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Gladys McDonough, and his father and brother also received their medical degrees. He was...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Dr. Auley Crouch, Sr. and Dr. J. Buren Sidbury (Sr.?)
physicians, Crouch family, Sidbury family
Dr. Auley McRae Crouch, Sr., received his M.D. from Jefferson College in 1916. He married Miss Muriel Lee Fales and together they had two sons, Auley McRae Crouch, Jr. and Walter Lee Crouch, who also became Physicians. Notable achievements:...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Waterfront, Cape Fear River - Wilmington - Between Chestnut and Walnut streets.
Waterfront, Cape Fear River, Eagles Island
Eagles Island, opposite Chestnut Street. Eagles Island causeway and ferry landing are at extreme left. Champion Compress (cotton) wharves are at right. Eagles Island is located on the west bank of the Cape Fear River, directly opposite downtown...
Louis T. Moore Collection

View of New Hanover High School, Trinity Methodist Church and St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church from Pembroke Jones Park.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches, St. Andrews- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Pembroke Jones Park, Market Street
Trinity Methodist Church was organized in August, 1889, as the Market Street Methodist Mission. The church met in Giblem Lodge at Eighth and Princess streets, but soon moved to a church at Ninth and Market streets. In 1920, the church hired Leslie...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Burgwin-Wright House
Georgian style house built on foundation of abandoned jail for John Burgwin (1731-1803), merchant and lawyer, Clerk of Court in Bladen and New Hanover counties, Clerk of NC Provincial Assembly, Secretary to Royal Governor Dobbs and Treasurer of...
Port City Architecture

Hinton House
Mission style house built for Joseph Hatch Hinton (1870-1952), and wife, Camille Pennington (1876-1950), native of Tarboro, NC. He was the owner and manager of the Orton Hotel from 1906 to 1936; a stockholder of Seashore and Oceanic hotels at...
Port City Architecture

Dr. Charles Graham and Dr. J. Watts Farthing
Graham family, Farthing family, physicians, medicine
Dr. Charles Pattison Graham (1907-), son of Benjamin Robinson and Edith Bolles Graham, was born in Wallace, North Carolina, August 28th, 1907. He married Miss Jean McKoy April 23rd, 1938. His great grandfather, grandfather, father and son all...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Dr. J. F. Robertson, Jr. and Dr. Charles Powell
Robertson family, Powell family, physicians, medicine, hospitals, Cancer hospitals
Dr. James Farish, Robertson, Jr. (1888-1975), son of James Farish Robertson, Sr., M.D. and Mary Elizabeth Grattan Robertson, was born in Culpepper, Virginia July 27th, 1888. His first wife was Juliette Howard Albright (1916); his second wife,...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Second Street, north - 100 block.
N. Second Street, Post Office Park, Cap Fear Club, Chestnut Street
The photo was taken across Post Office Park and shows the northeast and southeast corners of north Second and Chestnut streets. The Cape Fear Club is in the center and across Chestnut Street is the home of Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (1841-1892). Dr....
Louis T. Moore Collection

South Third Street - 100 block; intersection of Third and Orange streets.
Latimer House, First Presbyterian Church, S. Third Street, Orange Street
At left on the northwest corner is the Zebulon Latimer House; and, at right is the First Presbyterian Church, rebuilt after a fire destroyed the sanctuary in 1926. The First Presbyterian Church has been plagued by at least three fires in its...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Cape Fear River.
Cape Fear River, Eagles Island, Point Peter, Steamer
A steamer is in the river in front of Eagles Island. Point Peter is in the background. The Native Americans called the river, "Sapona," which is formed by the junction of the Haw and Deep Rivers in Chatham County, NC, and flows southeasterly...
Louis T. Moore Collection

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