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...
Pilot, Lt. Ward Robinson (on left), his mechanic (2nd from left) and James E. L. Wade (in white suit), Commissioner of Public Works of the City of Wilmington, pose in front of a U. S. Army bi-plane.
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...
By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
According to the 1860 Wilmington City Directory, Shaddrack M. West (ca. 1810-1871) was living in the house on North Third Street, between Princess and Chestnut streets. The large three-story Italinate dwelling was built ca. 1858. On July 10, 1914,...
St. Mary's Cathedral, Churches, Tileston School, Schools, S. Fifth Avenue, Ann Street
View of side of Tileston School. Students in costume are in school yard, before the front wings of the school were added. St. Mary's Catholic Pro-Cathedral is in the background. The original school building in the middle of the block was...
Burgwin-Wright, Cornwallis, Market Street, Third Street
At right are the steps and entrance to St. James Episcopal Church. One of the few Georgian-style houses to survive in Wilmington, the house was built about 1770-1771, by John Burgwin (1731-1803), a prominent lawyer, merchant and owner of...
Third Street, Courthouse, Annex, City Hall, Thalian Hall, Colonial Apartments, St. James Episcopal Church, Churches, First Baptist Church, St. Paul's Evangelical Church
View is from what looks to be from a roof top or upper floor of one of the buildings on the west side of the 300 block of North Third Street. The City Hall, New Hanover Courthouse and Annex and the Colonial Apartments are among the buildings seen...
Miss Dorothy Sutherland, sponsor, christens the SS John P. Mitchell on May 23, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company located in Wilmington, NC. She was a representative of New Hanover High School.
Launching party of the SS John P. Mitchell. Miss Dorothy Sutherland was the sponsor and resentative of New Hanover High School. The ship was christened on May 23, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company located in Wilmington, NC.
Miss Charlene Register, sponsor of the S.S. Game Cock, prepares to christen the vessel on May 26, 1944. Also included in the photo are representatives of New Hanover High School. Also pictured are Barbara Marshall (second from left); Betty Evans...