churches, First Presbyterian Church, Third Street, Orange Street
The First Presbyterian Church has been plagued by at least three fires in its history. Dating from 1818, the first church was located in the 100 block of South Front Street between Dock and Orange streets. It burned in 1819 and another church was...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Historic district, historical houses, John D. Bellamy, slave quarters, museum, tourist attraction, antebellum architecture, tours
Photograph of the front of the Bellamy Mansion taken from across Market St. near the corner of 5th and Market St. House needs painting and repair work. A sign that says "Bellamy Mansion 1859 open" is attached to one of the large white colums near...
New Hanover County, Jews, policemen, religions, bombs, explosions, judaism, conservative
An unidentified Wilmington police detective enters the synagogue at 2601 Chesnut St where another man looks out the door. The synagogue's vestibule and facade was heavily damaged (one column down, windows blown out and holes in the brick walls) by...
Darrell Wolf holds a steel pot containing a rescued opossum Monday morning as fellow Wilmington firefighters Rick Pearsall and James DeVane look on. The opossum was found in the Grace United Methodist Church's dishwasher Monday am by church...
Students look at the damaged bus as they head to another bus that will take them home. Accident was at the corner of 16th Street and Dawson. Paul Nevitt was the investigating officer for the city of Wilmington, N.C.
Wilmington, New Hanover county, North Carolina, advertisements, cigarettes, ladies,
Mark Hoge, of Naegele Outdoor Advertising, works from a very tall ladder placing another billboard sign up on N. 23rd St. The message "Virginia Slims- you've come a long way, baby"