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    • Martha Ellen

    • This divided back postcard features a photograph by W. Kendall Dorsey which captures Capt. Eddy Haneman deep sea fishing in the boat ""Martha Ellen,"" off Wrightsville Beach.
    • Postcard Collections
    • Fennell-Crump House

    • Fennell-Crump House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Ellen Jackson Murphy (1849-1939), widow of Dallas M. Fennell (1848-1895), bookkeeper. Purchased in 1920 by Edward P. Crump (1862-1943), native of Alabama, chemical corporation superintendent; and wife, Cora B....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Latimer-Waddell House

    • Latimer-Waddell House
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    • Italianate style house built for William Latimer (1852-1923), industrialist. In 1886 deeded to Ellen Savage (1842-1898), second wife of Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912), U. S. Congressman, Mayor of Wilmington, orator and historian. Purchased in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Morrison House

    • Morrison House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Thomas Morrison (1828-1901), native of Philadelphia, locomotive engineer and Blockade Runner captain and engineer. Remained in family for fifty-seven years. Purchased in 1950 by Ellen Mae Johnson (1902-1988), wife...
    • Port City Architecture
    • A.M. Wilson House

    • A.M. Wilson House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built as residence for Captain Alexander M. Wilson, Sr. (1851-1914); and wife, Ellen Nora Piver (1857-1911). At age 12, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was engaged in the battle of Fort Fisher. He later became a...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Walker-Warshauer House

    • Walker-Warshauer House
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    • Cottage built for Henry B. Walker (1842-1907), porter; and wife, Ellen Hayes (1843-1904). In 1940, purchased for rental property and converted to a duplex by Max Warshauer (1880-1949), native of Lithuania, merchant.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Brown-Weathersbee House

    • Brown-Weathersbee House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Thomas Edwin Brown (1879-1958), treasurer, Southern Mutual Home & Real Estate Co.; and wife, Ellen Corbett (1886-1976). Purchased in 1934 by Ransey Weathersbee (1883-1969), native of Aiken, SC, dentist; and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Taylor-Washington House

    • Taylor-Washington House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as rental property for John E. Taylor (1858-1925), deputy collector of US Customs and realtor. Purchased in 1921 by Edward G. Story, real estate developer and insurance broker; and wife, Mary Ellen Noyes. Inherited by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Avant House & Office

    • Dr. Avant House & Office
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    • Colonial Revival style house and office built for Frank W. Avant (1876-1973), physician, native of Southport; and wife, Florence L. Nichols (1887-1962), native of Newark, NJ. He was a founder of Community Hospital, president of the New Hanover...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Deans-Maffitt House

    • Deans-Maffitt House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for James Irving Deans (1824-1877), native of Scotland; and wife, Ellen Geary (1833-1917), native of Ireland. He was a bookkeeper with Edward Kidder & Sons, lumber dealers. After his death she ran a boarding house....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Bertram Williams

    • Dr. Bertram Williams

    • Williams family, physicians

    • Dr. Bertram R. Williams (1920-), son of Ralph B. and Bessie Sutton Williams, was born on July 4th, 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Ellen Shannon and attended UNC-Chapel Hill (1940) and Vanderbilt University, where he recieved...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • NCRPC0900

    • NCRPC0900

    • North Carolina Shipbuilding Company

    • Major Katherine A. Towle, of the USMCR, was the sponsor for the U.S.S. Washburn that launched on Dec. 18, 1944. Maj. Towle was in command of the women Marines at Camp Lejeune and the shipyard asked her to sponsor the ship in recognition of the war...
    • North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, 1941-1946

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