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- Wrightsville Sound Area. Outboard motor boat on sound.
- Wrightsville Beach, Wrightsville Sound, Motorboat
- Outboard motor boat on Wrightsville Sound.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Farming - Echo Farms.
- Echo Farms, McEachern Farm
- McEachern Dairy Farm in New Hanover County. For decades, the McEachern farm, known as Echo Farms, produced milk for thousands of New Hanover County families. Located on Carolina Beach Road, it was owned by Alexander O. McEachern (1869-1962)....
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- McEachern Dairy Farm - New Hanover County.
- McEachern Farm, Echo Farms, Dairy
- For decades, the McEachern farm, known as Echo Farms, produced milk for thousands of New Hanover County families. Located on Carolina Beach Road, it was owned by Alexander O. McEachern (1869-1962). McEachern was a pioneer in the diary business,...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Intracoastal Waterway - Snow's Cut.
- Intracoastal Waterway, Snow's Cut
- 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 engineers who worked on the project, the Cut is a section of the Intracoastal Waterway and...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Babies Hospital - Wrightsville Sound.
- Wrightsville Beach, Wrightsville Sound, Babies Hospital
- Founded on June 6, 1920 by Dr. J. Buren Sidbury (1864-1967), the original wooden building of the pediatric hospital burned in 1927. The Mediterranean style replacement is shown before a third story was added in 1955-1956.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Harbor Island.
- Harbor Island, Harbor Island Auditorium
- Originally called, "The Hammocks," Harbor Island was an uninhabited low lying island of sand dunes, surrounded by marsh and Wrightsville Sound on the north and southwest, and Banks Channel on the east. There was a dense growth of knotted live oaks....
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Surf bathers at an unidentified beach.
- Beaches, Surf Bathing
- Note men's bathing suits with tank tops which were fashionable until the middle 1930s.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Ruins of the Fort Fisher Mounds at Federal Point.
- Fort Fisher, Federal Point
- 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...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Bradley Creek Bridge.
- Bradley Creek Bridge, Bridges
- Bradley Creek Bridge. Beach car trestle can be seen at left.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Fort Fisher area - Federal Point - Lower end of New Hanover County.
- Fort Fisher, Federal Point
- 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...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Fort Fisher.
- Fort Fisher, Historic Marker
- 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...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Fort Fisher.
- Fort Fisher
- 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...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Fort Fisher area - Federal Point - Lower end of New Hanover County.
- Fort Fisher, Federal Point
- Notation on back of photo: "Wide areas of no growth." The soil is so poor in this area that a New Hanover County native once remarked, "The land is good for nothing but holding the world together." Fort Fisher Beach and Hotel Café building. Note...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Harbor Island Auditorium.
- Harbor Island, Auditorium, Hammocks
- Designed by Henry E. Bonitz (1872-1921), a prominent turn-of-the-century Wilmington architect, the auditorium is bedecked in patriotic bunting to welcome the North Carolina Florist Association. Originally called, "The Hammocks," Harbor Island was...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Harbor Island - Shore Acres -1929.
- Harbor Island, Shore Acres
- In 1927, Oliver T. Wallace and Richard L. Player bought property on Harbor Island and within a year were advertising the development of Shore Acres. The house of Spanish architecture (seen behind the trees and a pole), located on Live Oak Drive,...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Entrance to Fort Fisher
- Carolina Beach, Fort Fisher
- A car sits outside of the entrance to Fort Fisher.
- Louis T. Moore Collection