Built for the Hon. William Belvedere Meares as family residence. Occupied by Union Troops as Hospital, April 2-July 5, 1865. House was located on southeastern corner of Front and Chestnut streets. Moved here and rebuilt by F. W. Kerchner in 1887.
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...
Edward Kidder (1805-1885) was born in Massachusetts and came to Wilmington ca. 1826. He became a prosperous lumber merchant and later owned the Clarendon Water Works. He married Ann Potter (1811-1872) of Connecticut and in the early 1840s, they...
Kidder, Moore, S. Third Street, Dock Street, First Presbyterian Church, Churches
Annie Green tends her charges in the side garden of the Kidder House. The side of the Owen Kenan house is at right, with the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church in the distance.
Edward Kidder (1805-1885) was born in Massachusetts and came to...