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    • View of Downtown Wilmington from Belville, NC

    • View of Downtown Wilmington from Belville, NC

    • Belville, Brunswick County, North Carolina, advertisements, businesses, historic buildings, churches, Cape Fear River,filling stations,vehicles

    • Shows traffic heading towards downtown Wilmington on the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. The skylight of the city shows multiple church steeples, rooftops of houses and some businesses. On the Belville side a sign advertises Orton Motel & restaurant,...
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    • Ballast Stone from the Site of Solomon Towers

    • Ballast Stone from the Site of Solomon Towers

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, low-rent housing, historic houses, Cape Fear River, Castle Street, Wilmington Housing Authority

    • Closeup photo of a man's hands holding a ballast stone with the year 1761 etched into it. Artifact found at the Newkirk House which was at 511 Surry St. The current site of Solomon Towers.
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    • Bed and Breakfast Inns (1)

    • Bed and Breakfast Inns (1)

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, fund raisers, walking tours, Christmas tours, decorations, historic district

    • Gary Beane (left) and Jordan Christopher prepare the dining room at the Five Star Bed and Breakfast Inn, located at 14 N. 7th street, for the Old Wilmington by Candlelight Tour, which takes place annually during the December holiday season.
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    • Bellamy Mansion Fire

    • Bellamy Mansion Fire

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, 5th and Market St.. fires, antebellum architecture, historic houses, historical district, mansions

    • Emma Bellamy Hendren, with lit cigarette and an instamatic camera (with flash bulb attached) in right hand and manilla envelope in left, stares at the charred walls as William Lloyd looks through the doorway back at Ms. Hendren.
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    • Bellamy Mansion Fire (1)

    • Bellamy Mansion Fire (1)

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, historic places, slave quarters, Market St and 5th St., mansions, fires, antebellum architecture

    • A burned area around one of the marbalized slate fireplaces on the ground floor in the Bellamy Mansion. 2 small glass containers and a framed needlepoint (God bless our home) rests on the mantle.
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    • Bellamy Mansion Fire (2)

    • Bellamy Mansion Fire (2)

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, historical district, historic buildings, 5th & Market St, mansions, fires, antique furniture, antebellum architecture

    • The terrible destruction caused by a fire in the Bellamy Mansion is shown by the debris littered floor, peeling wallpaper, scorched furniture [sideboards, table holding condiment containers, silver water pitcher and silver covered dish] in what...
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    • Bellamy Mansion Renovation

    • Bellamy Mansion Renovation

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, antebellum architecture, 5th and Market St., historic houses, tourist attractions, renovations, painters,

    • One lone workman from Tinney Painting climbs scaffolding as restoration work is being done at the rear of the mansion.
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    • Bellamy Mansion Tours (1)

    • Bellamy Mansion Tours (1)

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, 5th and Market St., historic homes, historical district, tourist attractions

    • Guests at the Bellamy Mansion, which included Jim Burns and Ben MacDonald, line up and enter at the front door for a tour of the antebellum house as part of a fund raiser for the mansion restoration.
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    • Bellamy Mansion Tours (2)

    • Bellamy Mansion Tours (2)

    • W@ilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, 5th and Market, antebellum architecture, Union headquarters, Civil War, Freedmen's Bureau, slaves, John D. Bellamy

    • Hundreds of people line-up down the sidewalk on Market St., between 4th and 5th streets for their turn to enter the Bellamy Mansion for the free tours offered by the Historic Preservation Foundation of N.C.. Architectural historian Ed Turberg was...
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    • Bellamy Mansion Tours (3)

    • Bellamy Mansion Tours (3)

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Historic district, historical houses, John D. Bellamy, slave quarters, museum, tourist attraction, antebellum architecture, tours

    • Photograph of the front of the Bellamy Mansion taken from across Market St. near the corner of 5th and Market St. House needs painting and repair work. A sign that says "Bellamy Mansion 1859 open" is attached to one of the large white colums near...
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    • Bellamy Mansion, Inc.

    • Bellamy Mansion, Inc.

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, fund raisers, 5th and Market St., historical district, antebellum architecture

    • Mrs. Emma Bellamy Williamson Hendren, ( in winter doublebreasted coat and purse) of the Bellamy Mansion, Inc. stands in front of the ornate wrought iron gates and fencing as the historic house looms in the background.
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    • Bridger Store, Bladenboro, NC

    • Bridger Store, Bladenboro, NC

    • Blande County, North Carolina, retail shops, farm supplies, general stores, historic buildings, businessmen, prominent families

    • The Bridger Corporation, at 100 Main St., located in a large 2-story brick building in downtown Bladenboro has annouced its closing. The sign in the window announces a "liquidation sale early in May" . There is yard equipment in the showroom window...
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    • Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church

    • Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church

    • Bladen County, North carolina, African Americans, cemeteries, historical places, religious buildings

    • This is the oldest church in Bladen County, located 2 miles north of Clarkton. Built in 1818 out of cypress by Thomas Sheridan, a free black carpenter. It is an example of the plain meeting house style of Scots Presbyterians. It and the cemetery...
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    • 2nd St.

    • 2nd St.

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, guest houses, historic buildings, downtown,

    • An old building at 7 S. 2nd St.( an original brick street) near the corner of Market and 2nd Streets is the proposed site of a bed & breakfast. Today this site contains Courtyard Developers, which has "Diamond Feed Store" painted on front of...
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