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...
Notation on back of photo: "Wide areas of no growth." The soil is so poor in this area that a New Hanover County native once remarked, "The land is good for nothing but holding the world together."
Fort Fisher Beach and Hotel Café building. Note...
explosives, Hew Hanover County, North Carolina, crimes
Photograph shows pieces of a homemade pipe bomb that was denotated in Hoggard High School's bathroom early in the morning on January 7, 1991. Fortunately no one was hurt. The pieces of the bomb were placed in the ID room of the Wilmington Police...
The only portion of Grace Methodist Church to survive the 1947 fire, was dedicated on January 14, 1917, during the tenure of the Reverend M. T. Plyler. Building committee members were R. C. Merritt, chairman, J. E. Willoughby, J. T. King, T. A....
Greek Revival style house built as investment property for William A. Wright (1807-1878), lawyer. Additions made in 1850 when purchased by Alexander McLennan (1820-1856), store clerk and native of Montgomery County. From 1874 to 1883 residence of...
Fifteen-and-one-half acres, known as Green's Battery during the Civil War, were purchased in 1876 to establish a private cemetery for people of moderate means. An act of the North Carolina General Assembly incorporated The Bellevue Cemetery...
Gothic Revival style church built for Roman Catholic parish established January 1, 1845. Home church of The Rev. Thomas F. Price (1860-1919), co-founder of the Maryknoll Fathers, a missionary order, and James Gibbons (1834-1921), first Vicar...
Williams family, Martin family, physicians, emergency rooms, hospitals, medicine
Dr. Robert Wefer Williams (1921), son of Robert J. and Elsie Wefer Williams, was born January 27th, 1921, in New York, N.Y. He married Miss Isabel Martin and attended Harvard (1942) and Cornell Medical College, where he received his M.D. (1945). He...
Located in Kure Beach, Fort Fisher was the last remaining supply route available to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, until January 15, 1865, the assualt which determined the fate of the confederacy.
Dr. Robert Jackson Andrews (1921-), was born January 21, 1921 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He attended UNC Chapel Hill from 1943-44 and the University of Tennesse, Memphis, in 1946. His parents were Vernon and Edna Hall Andrews and he married...
Fort Fisher was the last remaining ship supply route available to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, until January 15th, 1865 when the battle was lost to the Union.
hotels, Theaters, Businesses, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Antique automobiles, Bicycles
Photograph of the Orton Hotel and the Royal Theater in downtown Wilmington, N.C. The Orton Hotel was built by Colonel Kenneth Murchison in 1888 and named for his plantation in Brunswick County. The Royal Theater was one door down fron the hotel. ...
Koseruba family, Sidbury family, physicians, medicine, Rayle family
Dr. James Buren Sidbury, Jr., son of James Buren, Sr. and Willie Daniel Sidbury, was born January 13th, 1922, in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father James and sister, Rowena S. Hall Lenart, were also Physicians (Pediatrics). He married Ms....
The Orton Hotel was built by Colonel Kenneth Murchison in 1888 and named for his plantation in Brunswick County. The building was destroyed in a fire on January 21, 1949.
Dr. James Hendry Robinson (1935-), son of Albert Grody and Moye Mercer Robinson, was born in Clinton, North Carolina, January 19th, 1935. He married Miss Nancy McLean and attended Davidson College (1957) and UNC-Chapel Hill, where he earned his...
Orton Hotel in downtown Wilmington, N.C. was built by Colonel Kenneth Murchison in 1888 and named for his plantation in Brunswick County. The building was destroyed in a fire on January 21, 1949.