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    • McCabe-Lancaster House

    • McCabe-Lancaster House
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    • Beach house built for Harry Lee McCabe (1895-1962), grocer; and wife, Vista Mae Taylor (1902-1982). Until Hurricane Hazel (1954), used variously as summer residence, rental property and apartments. Purchased in 1955by Luke Wilson Lancaster...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Central Baptist Church

    • Central Baptist Church
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    • Congregation formed in 1883 under the leadership of the Rev. L.T. Christmas who raised the funds to erect this building five years later. Much of the construction work was done by church members. It is the oldest African-American Baptist church...
    • Port City Architecture
    • First Baptist Church

    • First Baptist Church

    • Samuel Sloan, Hurricane Fran, steeples, churches

    • First Baptist Church at 5th and Market Streets is made of red brick with twin spires. The Wilmington Light Infantry building can be seen in the background. Power lines are seen along the streets, and the Street is hard surfaced. The Sunday School...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Seashore Hotel

    • Seashore Hotel

    • Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach, Fire

    • Another scene after the fire and destruction of the Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on 26 June 1919. According to Beverly Tetterton, Wilmington: Lost But Not Forgotten (pages 178-179), a new three-story hotel was erected on the...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Federal Point.

    • Federal Point.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point

    • The "Rocks", built between 1875 and 1881, by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, is properly called New Inlet Dam. The inlet was opened in 1761 by a strong hurricane and was the easiest and best entrance into the Cape Fear River and avoided the dangerous...
    • 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
    • Wrightsville Beach - Ocean Terrace Hotel.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Ocean Terrace Hotel.

    • Ocean Terrace Hotel, Hotels, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches

    • About 1935, Mrs. J. A. Snyder leased the old Sea Shore Hotel and renamed it the Ocean Terrace Hotel. It was badly damaged by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and burned to the ground the following year. The Blockade Runner Hotel, which was opened in 1964,...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Pomander Walk Cottages

    • Pomander Walk Cottages were located on the western side of Lumina (shown in the background). In 1930, the twenty cottages, built on this site replaced a "Tent City," a project of the Tidewater Power Company, who also owned Lumina. The "city" was...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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