Launching of the SS Roger Moore on March 31, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, NC. Miss Alice B. Moore, a descendant of Roger Moore, was the sponsor. From left to right Louis T. Moore, Mrs Roger Moore, Roger Moore, Ann...
Florence Kidder Moore and her daughters, Florence Moore Dunn and Margaret (Peggy) Moore Perdew pose among sea oats on a sand dune in front of the Moore cottage on Ocean Avenue at Wrightsville Beach.
Ocean Avenue is no longer there, lost to severe...
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...
Dr. Horace G. Moore, Jr., son of Horace G. and Evelyn Ray Moore, was born November 4th, 1921 in Savannah, Georgia. He attended Johns Hopkins University (1942) and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (1945), where he earned his M.D. (Notable: Alpha...
The house was located on Dock Street behind the large Kidder House on the southeast corner of Third and Dock and was also owned by the Kidders. Louis T. and Florence Kidder Moore resided in the house from ca.1920 until 1926. The Moore's daughters,...
This divided back postcard features two photographs capturing views from the beach of Wrightsville. One image shows a crowd of beachgoers and the other shows the sunset.
Dr. Ralph Bryan Moore, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bryan Moore, was born in Deansboro, New York, August 6th, 1926. He married Miss Victoria Killip and attended Cornell University (1948) and Cornell Medical College, where he received his M.D....
Louis Toomer Moore was the executive secretary of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Moore was present to photograph every important local event of the time, as well as chronicle the area’s growth and portray its people.
This photo shows a general view of Moore's Creek, where a Revolutionary battle was fought in 1776.
One of the first battles of the American Revolution was fought at Moore's Creek (near Currie, NC, in Pender County) on February 27-28, 1776. It...
One of the first battles of the American Revolution was fought at Moore's Creek (near Currie, NC, in Pender County) on February 27-28, 1776. It pitted local Patriots against Highland Scottish Loyalists.
Former auditorium at Moore's Creek National...
Youngest daughter of Louis T. Moore, rides her tricycle in front of the Moore's home at 121 South Fifth Street. The Wessel-Hathaway-Boney house is across the street at left.
Wallace Leroy Fisher puts on a coat of primer paint on the riggings of the Dan Moore. The Dan Moore is a research vessel belonging to Cape Fear Tech. The ship and crew of students just got back from an 8 day training cruise to the Chesapeake Bay...