Brunswick County, North Carolina, stores, trailers, hotels, motels, signs
A street scene showing businesses and billboards in Belville; Towel City, Crisp Mobile Home Park, Crisp Sales and Manufacturing Co., Horne's , Days Inn, Holiday Lodge, Holiday Lodge restaurant, 3 unidentified men at the Holiday Lodge.
New Hanover County, unions, manufacturing, companies, industries
Strikers with AFL-CIO Boilermakers Lodge 905 picketing at the Babcock & Wilcox plant in Wilmington, N.C. Pictured are Thomas Barr, Frank Bass, Jerry Floyd, Johnny Aikens, Hulan Hufman, and Percell Barnes .
Queen Anne style house built by E. William Gilchrist (1850-1928) native of Richmond County, NC, commission merchant and a founder of Acme Manufacturing Co. Interior Colonial Revival alterations were made in 1913 after plans drawn by Alex Morton...
Italianate style dwelling built for Henry G. Latimer (1845-1929); and wife, Carrie. Mr. Latimer was a merchant and co-founder of Acme Manufacturing Company. House owned by Mary Hargrave Kenan (1842-1916) and heirs from 1903-1935.
Front section of house built on adjacent lot by Christopher C. Morse (1824-1891), grocer. Moved and enlarged in Queen Anne style for Martin Stevenson Willard (1858-1933), insurance agent and president of Willard Bag and Manufacturing Company. ...
Neoclassical Revival style house built as investment property for Joseph George McNeal (1845-1919), native of Delaware, president of Garysburg Manufacturing Company of Burgaw, NC. Purchased in 1925 by William Parnell Applewhite (1888-1964),...
William Block (1874-1954), a native of Riga, immigrated to Baltimore, MD, in 1887, and was in the textile business. In the middle 1920s, he sent his son, Nathan Ellis Block (1903-1986), to Wilmington to investigate the possibility of locating a...