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    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Erosion, Civil War, Confederacy

    • Fort Fisher Beach and Mound, showing erosion. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher mounds and beach.

    • Fort Fisher mounds and beach.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Erosion

    • Fort Fisher mounds and beach. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be captured by...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Hotel Café, Confederacy, Civil War

    • 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
    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches

    • Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a chain of barrier islands, which spans almost all of the North...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Banks Channel, Airplane, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches

    • A small boat on Banks Channel and an early airplane above; also shows southern end of the beach. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Jetty

    • Atlantic Ocean surf showing a portion of a wooden jetty. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - turn of the century.

    • Wrightsville Beach - turn of the century.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Ocean View Beach

    • The southern extension of Wrightsville Beach was once called Ocean View Beach after the development company that owned that part of the beach. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher Highway, near Kure Beach.

    • Fort Fisher Highway, near Kure Beach.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Highway, Kure Beach

    • 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, NC.

    • Fort Fisher, NC.

    • Fort Fisher, Kure Beach, Civil War

    • Beach and ruins of Civil War earthenworks, with a damaged house in the foreground. 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • 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

    • 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
    • Bald Head Island Motel

    • Bald Head Island Motel

    • North Carolina, Brunswick County,beaches, resorts

    • Photograph is an aerial view of the Bald Head Inn. Sandbags line the edge of the property to protect the Inn from the Atlantic Ocean. The Inn later lost it's battle to erosion and the structure was taken down.
    • Star-News Image Archive

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