CFTI boat-building class-Ned Finnegan and Colleen McKenna, students, fasten strip to jig for Massachusetts Mass. Bay HUSTLER class sloop they will build. Instructor Bruce MacKenzie checks the alignment.
Wilmingtons first iron-front and steel-frame structure, built for George Reade French (1802-1889), native of Massachusetts, boot and shoe merchant. George R. French & Sons, established in 1822, was continued by William A. French (1835-1907) and...
The original one-and-one-half story plantation house was built for "King" Roger Moore (1694-1751), native of Goose Creek, SC and first permenant settler in the Lower Cape Fear region. Fredrick Jones Hill (1792-1861), physician, planter, and NC...
Gregory Elementary School, Williston Industrial School, S. Tenth Street
Located near the corner of Seventh and Ann streets, the first school by this name was Gregory Institute, which was funded by the American Missionary Association, a missionary and educational agency of the Congregational Church. It was named for J....
Edward Kidder (1805-1885) was born in Massachusetts and came to Wilmington ca. 1826. He became a prosperous lumber merchant and later owned the Clarendon Water Works. He married Ann Potter (1811-1872) of Connecticut and in the early 1840s, they...
Kidder, Moore, S. Third Street, Dock Street, First Presbyterian Church, Churches
Annie Green tends her charges in the side garden of the Kidder House. The side of the Owen Kenan house is at right, with the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church in the distance.
Edward Kidder (1805-1885) was born in Massachusetts and came to...