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...
Shingle style house designed by James Brite (1864-1942) and Henry Bacon (1866-1924). A former resident, Bacon was the architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. House built for Capt. Donald V. MacRae (1861-1928), Spanish-American War...
Italianate style house built for Henry Russell Savage (1799-1861), native of Connecticut, Cashier of Bank of Cape Fear. Residence of the Bacon family from 1881 to1891. Henry Bacon was engineer of The Rocks, the construction that closed New Inlet,...
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...
Civil War, Monument, Confederacy, Bacon, Boney, S. Third Street, Dock Street
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...
The dredge is the Henry Bacon.
The idea of a national intracoastal waterway system from Maine to the tip of Florida was conceived as early as the late eighteenth century. Several portions were built, with the first link - the Dismal Swamp Canal -...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, bars, drinking establishments, historic buildings, basements, Elizabeth McKoy, Henry Bacon McKoy, theatre, artifacts
James Hasel McKoy (Jimmy) owner of St. John's Tavern looks at old bottles that were discovered possibly in the cellar of St. John's Museum?
Transitional Georgian-Federal style structure built for St. John's Lodge No. 1, Ancient Your Masons, and shared by Concord Chapter; Masonic mural (c. 1809) remains. Purchased in 1824 by Thomas W. Brown (1803-1872), silversmith and jeweler, who...
Stick style house built as a residence for W.B. McKoy, (1852-1928), attorney and Past Grand Master of Masons of NC; and wife, Katherine Bacon (1858-1949). Home of daughter Elizabeth Francenia McKoy, (1887-1984), local historian, researcher, and...
The house was built in 1912-13 by Walter Linton Parsley (1856-1941), a Wilmington lumberman, and was designed by Henry Bacon (1866-1924), a resident of Wilmington during his childhood and the architect of the Lincoln Memorial. The unique octagonal...
Grave of Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813-1864), a Confederate spy, who was drowned while attempting to get into a life-boat of the Blockade Runner, Condor, in the ocean off Fort Fisher. Inscription on the stone: "Mrs. Rose O'N. Greenhow, a bearer of...
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...
The "Rocks", built between 1875 and 1881, by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, is properly called New Inlet Dam. The inlet was opened in 1761 by a strong hurricane and was the easiest and best entrance into the Cape Fear River and avoided the dangerous...
Fort Fisher, Civil War, Federal Point, Battery Buchanan, The Rocks
"Battery Buchanan" and "The Rocks," below Fort Fisher.
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last...
The house was built in 1912-13 by Walter Linton Parsley (1856-1941), a Wilmington lumberman, and was designed by Henry Bacon (1866-1924), a resident of Wilmington during his childhood and the architect of the Lincoln Memorial. The unique octagonal...
The house was built in 1912-13 by Walter Linton Parsley (1856-1941), a Wilmington lumberman, and was designed by Henry Bacon (1866-1924), a resident of Wilmington during his childhood and the architect of the Lincoln Memorial. The unique octagonal...
Confederacy, Memorial, S. Third Street, Dock Street, Bridgers
The monument, center, has a wreath in front, possibly marking a patriotic holiday. At right, is the Bridgers House (100 South Third Street) and the MacRae-Dix House (108 South Third Street). Built by J. C.Wood, R. B. Wood and James F. Post, the...