New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

Miles Costin House
Italianate style house built for Miles Costin (c. 1800-1873), planter, commission merchant and town commissioner; and wife, Catherine (c. 1809-1874). Mrs. Robt Ransoms Female Seminary operated here in 1871. Acquired in 1885 by John Wilder Atkinson...
Port City Architecture

Morrison House
Queen Anne style house built for Thomas Morrison (1828-1901), native of Philadelphia, locomotive engineer and Blockade Runner captain and engineer. Remained in family for fifty-seven years. Purchased in 1950 by Ellen Mae Johnson (1902-1988), wife...
Port City Architecture

Wooster House
Greek Revival style house built by John Wooster (1791-1869), native of Connecticut, dry goods merchant with Wooster, Anderson and Company; and wife, Lucy A. Wright (1801-1864). Inherited by son, Capt. John L. Wooster (1831-1885), attorney,...
Port City Architecture

Children in Class at Recreation Center
Bible school, African American, Christian activities, New Hanover County, North Carolina, boys and girls, drawing, ping pong table, bumper pool
Evangelist, Amy James, leads a group of children in drawing lessons during Bible study in the afternoon at the Vesta Village recreation center in Wilmington. She leads weekly Bible studies for about 20 children in the complex just off the 1800...
Star-News Image Archive

New Hanover County Courthouse
Queen Anne style courthouse built as seat of government for New Hanover County at a cost of $72,000. Cornerstone laid on April 20, 1891. Superior Court first met here on April 17, 1893. Renovation begun in 1986; rededicated 1988.
Port City Architecture

Wooster House
Greek Revival style house built by John Wooster (1791-1869), native of Connecticut, dry goods merchant with Wooster, Anderson, and Company; and wife, Lucy A. Wright (1801-1864). Inherited by son, Capt. John L. Wooster (1821-1885), attorney,...
Port City Architecture

Souvenir of Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Old Post Office
This postcard booklet features 20 illustrates scenes from around Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. Among the sites included are the Courhouse, Old Post Office, Steamer Wilmington, Atlantic Coastline Depot and the Oceanic Hotel.
Postcard Collections

Dr. George Johnson and Dr. William Dosher
Johnson family, Dosher family, physicians, medicine
Dr. George W. Johnson (1897-1966), son of Charles A. and Ida Pure Johnson, was born April 18th, 1897, in Wallace, North Carolina. He married Miss Evelyn Hill and they had a son, George Johnson, Jr., who was Professor & Chief, Division of General...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Receipt from W. C. Von Glahn
receipts, W. C. Von Glahn, shoe stores, S. Front St.
Receipt from W. C. Von Glahn of 20 S. Front St., dealer in shoes, boots and rubbers
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Third Street, south - 0 and 100 blocks, west side.
Third Street, Wooster, Bridgers
At right is the Wooster House on the northwest corner of Third and Dock streets. Across Dock Street on the southwest corner is the imposing stone Bridgers House. Behind the tree in the center of the plaza is the Confederate Memorial, designed by...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Oakdale Cemetery - Monument of Henry Bacon.
Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves, Henry Bacon
Monument is to Henry Bacon (1866-1924), who spent his childhood in Wilmington while his father, Henry Bacon, Sr. (1822-1891), was the chief engineer for the "Rocks", a Federal navigation project (begun in 1875) to close New Inlet near Federal...
Louis T. Moore Collection

New Hanover High School - 1300 block Market Street.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Market Street
The massive yellow brick building was built 1920-1922 by W. J. Wilkins & Co.,Architects. The building formally replaced Wilmington High School, which was located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets. In 1922, with an enrollment...
Louis T. Moore Collection

George Davis Monument - Intersection, Third and Market streets.
George Davis, Monument, Third Street, Market Street
A native of New Hanover County, George Davis (1820-1896) was an attorney, who was elected to the Confederate States Provincial Congress in 1861. Later, he served as one of North Carolina's Senators. In January 1864, he was appointed attorney...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Confederate Memorial Monument - Unveiling ceremony - 1924.
Confederacy, Monument, Memorial, Dock Street, S. Third Street, Bacon, Boney
Designed by Henry Bacon, the monument, located on the plaza at intersection of South Third and Dock streets was donated to the City of Wilmington in 1924, by Gabriel Boney. The sculptor of the two bronze figures, representing courage and...
Louis T. Moore Collection

World War I Memorial - Thirteenth and Market Streets.
World War I, Thirteenth Street, Market Street
Crowds and military units awaited the unveiling to the New Hanover County's monument to World War I dead on May 20, 1922.
Louis T. Moore Collection

World War I Memorial - Thirteenth and Market streets.
World War I, Memorial, Monument, Thirteenth Street, Market Street, New Hanover High School, Schools
Crowd at the unveiling ceremony in front of New Hanover High School, May 20, 1922.
Louis T. Moore Collection

Rural paved road. Old Wrightsville Road (Shell Road).
Roads, Old Wrightsville Road, Shell Road, Bradley Creek
The privately built Shell Road or Wilmington Turnpike was constructed in 1874-1875 from Wilmington to the sounds and immediate coastal areas. The road began at Sixteenth and Dock streets and followed the route that is roughly today's (1999)...
Louis T. Moore Collection

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