Wilmington, New Hanover county, North Carolina, boats, steam-powered, Army Corps of Engineers, snag boat
Left to right, Leslie Bright, state underwater archaeologist, Jerry Dunn, volunteer, and Dave Carnell, chairman of the board of directors of the New Hanover Co. museum work to raise the workings of the paddlewheel ship the H.G. Wright from the edge...
Queen Anne style house built for Edward Dunn Sloan (1868-1929), bookkeeper with Hall & Pearsall, wholesale grocers; and wife, Margaret B. Satchwell. In 1900 sold to Kinchen J. Powers (1842-1902), physician; and wife, Emmaline Simpson (1853-1934),...
nurses, James Walker Memorial Hospital, nursing schools
Both Florence Hayes (Mrs. Morris Caldwell), Alberta Robinson (pictured) of Dunn, N.C., were the only two members of the first graduating class of nurses from the nursing school located at James Walker Memorial Hospital.
The house was located on Dock Street behind the large Kidder House on the southeast corner of Third and Dock and was also owned by the Kidders. Louis T. and Florence Kidder Moore resided in the house from ca.1920 until 1926. The Moore's daughters,...
Florence Kidder Moore and her daughters, Florence Moore Dunn and Margaret (Peggy) Moore Perdew pose among sea oats on a sand dune in front of the Moore cottage on Ocean Avenue at Wrightsville Beach.
Ocean Avenue is no longer there, lost to severe...
Edward Kidder (1805-1885) was born in Massachusetts and came to Wilmington ca. 1826. He became a prosperous lumber merchant and later owned the Clarendon Water Works. He married Ann Potter (1811-1872) of Connecticut and in the early 1840s, they...
Gathered at the launching of the S.S. Velma Lykes on Mar. 31, 1945, were (left to right) Herbert L. Satterlee, grandfather of the sponsor; Miss Evelyn Rogers, grandaughter of Roger Williams; P.F. Halsey, vice president of NC Shipbuilding Co.; Tuny...