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    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Oceanic, Tarrymore, Hotels, Babies, Parade

    • A baby parade held on the boardwalk, just south of the Oceanic Hotel at Station One. First known as the Tarrymore Hotel, the building was opened in June 1905. The name was changed to the Oceanic Hotel around 1911/12. The landmark at Station One...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion

    • A crowd assembles on ocean side of Lumina. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a chain of barrier...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion, Race

    • A crowd watches a foot race on the beach in front of Lumina. In 1901, the beach car line from Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach was sold by the Wilmington and Seacoast Railroad to the Consolidated Railways, Light and Power Company (later the...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion

    • A large gathering on the beach in front of Lumina. Note movie screen on left. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Cumming-Sneeden House

    • Cumming-Sneeden House
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    • Built as rental property for William McRary Cumming (1860-1922), native of Greensboro, NC, business executive and real estate investor. Converted to duplex in 1952 by Rudolph L. Lewis (1894-1978), hardware merchant. Purchased in 1965 by James F....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gooding-Lawton-Grant House

    • Gooding-Lawton-Grant House
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    • Built by F.J. Gooding, superintendent of Hilton Lumber Co., as investment property. Sold in 1905 to Florence V. Lawton (1856-1924) who resided here with her sister, Anna Lawton Grant (1858-1942) and her husband, Richard H. Grant (1845-1912), master...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Willson-Powell House

    • Willson-Powell House
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    • Built for William Alexander Willson, Jr. (1865-1949), accountant for American Railway Express; and wife, Mary Hart Morris (1874-1965). Purchased in 1918 by John F. Powell (1884-1948), native of Ireland; and wife, Dorothy Palmer (1893-1954)....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Reuben Grant Cottage

    • Reuben Grant Cottage
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    • Cottage built for Reuben Grant (1818-1880), native of Onslow County, Methodist minister and longtime member of Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church; and wife, Sarah Ann Dawson (1823-1888). Purchased in 1885 by Willie Ann Wood Price (1857-1931),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. D. R. Murchison and Dr. John Cranmer

    • Dr. D. R. Murchison and Dr. John Cranmer

    • Murchison family, Cranmer family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. David Reid Murchison (1891-), son of Joel William and Loulie Atkinson Murchison, was born August 18th, 1891 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss May McLaughlin Carmichael. He attended UNC-Chapel Hill (1912), and Johns Hopkins, where...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Donald Koonce

    • Dr. Donald Koonce

    • Koonce family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. Donald Brock Koonce (1905-1975), son of Simon Everette and Lila Ward Koonce, was born September 6th, 1905 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was married to Louise Bellamy Wood and later to Mary Hargrove Bellamy. His father was also a Physician....
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. D. R. McEachern

    • Dr. D. R. McEachern

    • McEachern family, Shepherd family, physicians

    • Dr. Duncan Roland McEachern (1905-1970), son of Drusilla and Neil Morris McEachern, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, July 19th, 1905. He married Eloise Melville Sheperd, attended Davidson College (1928) and the Medical College of Virginia...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. W. C. Mebane

    • Dr. W. C. Mebane

    • Mebane family, physicians

    • Dr. William Carter Mebane, Sr.? was born November 1st, 1882 to parents Benjamin Watkins and Bettie Galloway Carter Mebane. He married Miss Susan Mott and they had a son, William Carter Mebane, Jr. who also received his M.D., (General Practicioner...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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