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    • Freight Warehouse & Office

    • Freight Warehouse & Office
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    • Built for the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta Railroad; acquired through merger by the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad and later the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, who added the three-story freight office in 1900. Saved for preservation by Historic...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Brown-Lord House

    • Brown-Lord House
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    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Nathan Cottage

    • Nathan Cottage
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    • Neoclassical Revival style cottage built as investment property for Aaron A. Nathan (1851-1920), native of columbia, South Carolina; and wife, Jeanette Schloss (1858-1929), native of Warrenton, North Carolina. He was a real estate investor and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. James H. Dickson

    • Dr. James H. Dickson

    • Dickson family, physicians, medicine, yellow fever

    • Dr. James Henderson Dickson (1806-1862), was born June 17th, 1806. His brother, Robert D. Dickson, was also a Physician. He attended UNC (1823) and Columbia University, where he earned his M.D. Notable accomplishments: Performed subcutaneous...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. James Dickson

    • Dr. James Dickson

    • James Dickson, Yellow Fever, physicians

    • Dr. James Henderson Dickson (1806-1862) received his medical degree from Columbia University. He was cited for doing the first subcutaneous Achilles tenotomy for talipes surgery in the U.S. He died during the devastating yellow fever epidemic of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. J. B. Sidbury, Sr.?

    • Dr. J. B. Sidbury, Sr.?

    • Sidbury family, Daniel family, physicians, Pediatricians, Babies Hospital

    • Dr. James Buren Sidbury, Sr., (1886-7967), son of Verlinza and Fannie Willims Sidbury, was born March 2nd, 1886 in Holly Ridge, North Carolina. He married Miss Willie Daniel and they had a son, James Buren Sidbury, Jr. and daughter, Rowena Sidbury...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. James Buren Sidbury

    • Dr. James Buren Sidbury

    • Sidbury family, physicians, Babies Hospital, Dr. James Buren Sidbury

    • Dr. James Buren Sidbury, Jr., son of James Buren, Sr. and Willie Daniel Sidbury, was born January 13th, 1922, in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father James and sister, Rowena S. Hall Lenart, were also Physicians (Pediatrics). He married Ms....
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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