On any given afternoon, the cab stand at the corner of Nixon and Brown street is the place for the Brooklyn neighborhood checker players. This particular afternoon was a little wet, so the crowd was down. Here, Lloyd McKoy and Gerald Brown take...
Italianate style house built for Mary Jane Halsey Langdon (1799-1883), widow of Samuel Langdon (1786-1832), merchant, to replace residence that burned. Inherited by granddaughter Jane Young (1849-1930), and husband, Thomas D. Meares, C.S.A....
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.
Greek Revival style house built as rental property for Thomas W. Brown (1803-1872), native of New York, jeweler, watch maker, and silversmith; and wife, Sarah Elizabeth Beebe (1819-1898). Purchased in 1913 and moved from Walnut Street by James M....
Basement timbers indicate house was here prior to the American Revolution. Robert Wells purchased this property in 1773. John Brown married Annabella Wells and lived here for many years. Property inherited by Columbia Brown Lord in 1857. Remained...
Built in 1803-1805, the Georgian building served as the lodge's home until 1825, when it was sold to Thomas W. Brown. It remained in the Brown family until 1943. For a time during World War II, a restaurant, called St. John's Tavern, was operated...
Belonging to the Thomas W. Brown collection, the paintings are of Elizabeth Adair (1774-1844) and Samuel Marshall. The Brown residence was at 114 Orange Street
Banks Channel, showing the beach car trestle from Harbor Island to the beach. The Oceanic Hotel and the Green Lantern Tea Room (built over Banks Channel) are in the background. The 1935 fishing fleet captains included Walter Stokely, Willie Moore,...
Launching of the Joseph A. Brown on April 30, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company located in Wilmington, NC. Mrs. E.K. Proctor, daughter of Joseph A. Brown, was listed as the sponsor.
Bladen County, North carolina, African Americans, cemeteries, historical places, religious buildings
This is the oldest church in Bladen County, located 2 miles north of Clarkton. Built in 1818 out of cypress by Thomas Sheridan, a free black carpenter. It is an example of the plain meeting house style of Scots Presbyterians. It and the cemetery...
Colonial Revival style house built as investment property for Thomas Wesley Harrison (1878-1955), president of A. D. Brown & Co., dry goods. Purchased in 1939 by Eric Norden (1869-1946), native of Sweden, civil engineer and map maker; and wife,...
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...
Queen Anne style house built as rental property for Lorenzo D. Kennedy (c. 1850-1921), grocer and baker; and wife, Sarah J. Nash (born c. 1853). Purchased in 1945 by John Lee Forehand (1906-1992), native of Charleston, West Virginia, laborer; and...
Neoclassical Revival style house built as rental property for Maria Brown McKoy (1855-1942), widow of Robert Hassell McKoy (1855-1901), attorney. Purchased in 1943 by Frank Lem (1916-1990), owner of the New China Restaurant; and wife, Velma Walker...
Queen Anne style house built on Sunset Hill for Philander Pearsall (1855-1937), native of Duplin County, wholesale grocer; and wife, Mary Moore Brown (1861-1952), native of West Virginia, civic leader. Purchased in 1944 by Elijah O. Hewlett...