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    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Beach, Civil War

    • Federal Point landscape. 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 Union...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Federal Point.

    • Federal Point.

    • Fort Fisher, Civil War, Federal Point, Battery Buchanan, The Rocks

    • "Battery Buchanan" and "The Rocks," below Fort Fisher. 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Federal Point - Fort Fisher.

    • Federal Point - Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Blackjack Oaks

    • Landscape with blackjack oaks. Area near the Cape Fear River. 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Federal Point - Fort Fisher.

    • Federal Point - Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Blackjack Oaks

    • Landscape with blackjack oaks. Area near the Cape Fear River. 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Richard Langdon House

    • Richard Langdon House
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    • Federal style house built for Richard Langdon (1753-1810), native of New Hampshire, merchant; and wife, Jane Dunbibin Ward. In 1812, the widow Jane married Samuel Russell Jocelyn (1764-1816), native of Connecticut, attorney. Purchased in 1829, by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Lazarus-Hill-Divine House

    • Lazarus-Hill-Divine House
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    • Federal style house built for Aaron Lazarus (1777-1841), wealthy merchant and influential citizen. Purchased 1854 by Frederick J. Hill (1792-1861), physician, planter, and NC senator. Remodeled in Greek Revival and Italianate styles with entrance...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cassidey-Harper House

    • Cassidey-Harper House
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    • Built as family residence by James Cassidey (1792-1866), native of Salisbury, MA, who with his sons operated an extensive shipyard and marine railway at river below house. Confederate ironclad RALEIGH was constructed there. His daughter, Anne E....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Chasten House

    • Chasten House
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    • Federal style hall-and-parlor house with double piazzas moved to this location and rear shed porch added c. 1850. One-story building added to east side c. 1870. By 1883, residence of Rufus H. Chasten (1862-1897), turpentine inspector and weigher;...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Fountain at Federal Building

    • Fountain at Federal Building

    • Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Custom House, Federal Building

    • This photograph captures a view of the fountain located at the Custom House (later the Federal Building) located between Market and Princess streets on Water Street. Behind the fountain is an unknown vessel anchored on the Cape Fear River.
    • Wilmington Harbor Collection
    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant - Federal Point.

    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant - Federal Point.

    • Ethyl-Dow, Chemical Plant, Federal Point, Bromine

    • Built in 1934, the chemical plant was located on Dow Road, which follows the eastern bank of the Cape Fear River on the Federal Point peninsula. The company was a bromine extraction plant, the only facility of its kind in the nation and supplied a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant

    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant

    • Ethyl-Dow, Chemical Plant, Federal Point, Bromine

    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant on the Federal Point peninsula in the early stages of construction, ca. 1932/33. Built in 1934, the chemical plant was located on Dow Road, which follows the eastern bank of the Cape Fear River on the Federal Point...
    • 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
    • Lazarus House Kitchen

    • Lazarus House Kitchen
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    • Built by Aaron Lazarus (1777-1841), a merchant and native of Charleston, SC, as one of two kitchens for his principal residence which still stands to the East. Converted to a residence by 1889. Purchased and enlarged in 1923 by Aaron Goldberg,...
    • Port City Architecture

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