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    • Boat Repairs

    • Boat Repairs

    • boats, repairing, Wilmington, North Carolina

    • The Backman Elizabeth sputtered to port here recently, 3 pumps rhymically chugging water out of its belly. Harold Varnum built and launched his creation in 1971.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Harriss House

    • Harriss House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Andrew Howell Harriss (1872-1956), physician and surgeon; and wife, Mary Bolles (1875-1967), native of Southport, NC. Dr. Harriss served in the Spanish American and First World Wars. Two-story porch added in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Baptist Hill House

    • Baptist Hill House
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    • A Baptist meeting house occupied this site as early as 1825. Front Street Baptist Church was constructed here in 1837 and served the congregation until 1866. Converted to residence when sold to John F. Stolter (1840-1903) and John M. Bremer...
    • 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
    • Wessel-Harper House

    • Wessel-Harper House
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    • Built by Jacob Wessel (1814-1887). Later owned by Captain James Thomas Harper, 1895. Inherited by son, Charles T. Harper, M.D (1904-1913), also his daughter Mary Harper Darby (1913-1957). Preserved by the Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Governor Dudley Mansion

    • Governor Dudley Mansion
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    • Built by Edward B. Dudley (1789-1855), rice planter, president of Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad Company and governor (1836-1841), first elected by popular vote. Purchased in 1885 by J. Pembroke Jones (1858-1919), capitalist; and wife, Sarah W....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Love-Pretlow House

    • Love-Pretlow House
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    • Craftsman style house built for William Walter Love (1877-1930), wholesale grocer and president of Carolina Packing Co.; and wife, Bettie Johnson (1880-1964). Purchased in 1923 by Annie Paddison Pretlow (1876-1959); wife of Joel Cook Pretlow...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Elliott-Brown House

    • Elliott-Brown House
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    • Built by Mary Taylor Elliott (1835-1907), native of Fayetteville, NC; widow of William P. Elliott, merchant and co-owner of steamboat line. Earl Williams Brown (1909-1971), a Master Printer, owned the house from 1934 to 1971. Queen Anne style...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Bruce Hugh Dorman

    • Dr. Bruce Hugh Dorman

    • Dorman family, Taylor family, physicians, New Hanover Memorial Hospital

    • Dr. Bruce Hugh Dorman, son of Samuel and Marie Dorman, was born July 22nd, 1924 in Plainfield, N.J. He was educated at Duke University (1946) where he also earned his M.D. (1948). He married Miss Suzanne Taylor. He was in private practice. In 1971,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dudley Mansion

    • Dudley Mansion

    • Dudley Mansion, Governors, Edward B. Dudley

    • Built by Edward B. Dudley (1789-1855), rice planter, president of Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad Company and Governor (1836-1841), first elected by popular vote. Purchased in 1885 by J. Pembroke Jones (1858-1919), capitalist; and wife, Sarah W....
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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