Dr. Sigmond Aaron Bear, son of Emanuel Israel and Mamie Nathan Bear, was born August 2nd, 1923 in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. He married Catherine Hofto and attend VMI (1945) and earned his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1948). He was...
Image shows Wrightsville Marina at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Picture shows both pleasure craft and shrimp boats on the water (Intracoastal Waterway?)
One of Wilmington's earliest suburbs was Sunset Park, developed beginning in 1912, by Thomas Franklin Boyd, formerly of Hamlet, NC. The six hundred acre residential area, west of what is now the Carolina Beach Road, contained wide boulevards and...
The Cut links Myrtle Grove Sound with the Cape Fear River and was completed in 1935.
Completed in 1935 by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, the channel connected Myrtle Grove Sound with the Cape Fear River. Named for Major W. A. Snow, one of the...
The photo was taken from the middle of the Cut in a boat shortly after its opening.
Completed in 1935 by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, the channel connected Myrtle Grove Sound with the Cape Fear River. Named for Major W. A. Snow, one of the...
Federal Point landscape.
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 port to be captured by Union...
Fort Fisher Road and mounds. Long distance view of site.
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...
Fort Fisher mounds and road.
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 port to be captured by Union...
Fort Fisher Beach and Hotel Café building. Note erosion. Written on the original photo: "Three years ago the rear end of this building stood at the point of this stake." (Stake marked with x)
A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about...