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    • Northwest Cape Fear River Bridge.

    • Northwest Cape Fear River Bridge.

    • Northwest Cape Fear River Bridge, Bridges, Point Peter

    • View from the bridge looking southeast toward Wilmington waterfront and the confluence of the Northeast and Northwest branches of the river. Point Peter is on the left and Eagles Island to the right. On December 10, 1929, the twin bridges over the...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Cape Fear River.

    • Cape Fear River.

    • Cape Fear River, Eagles Island, Point Peter, Steamer

    • A steamer is in the river in front of Eagles Island. Point Peter is in the background. The Native Americans called the river, "Sapona," which is formed by the junction of the Haw and Deep Rivers in Chatham County, NC, and flows southeasterly...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Waterfront, Cape Fear River - Wilmington

    • Waterfront, Cape Fear River - Wilmington

    • Waterfront, Cape Fear River, Northwest Cape Fear River Bride, Point Peter

    • Chestnut Street to Northeast Cape Fear River Bridge - View from atop the Northwest Cape Fear River Bridge, showing Point Peter. At the confluence of the Northeast and Northwest Cape Fear Rivers, opposite Wilmington, was as early as 1764, called...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Beach, Civil War

    • Federal Point landscape. 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 port to be captured by Union...
    • 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
    • Federal Point - Fort Fisher.

    • Federal Point - Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Blackjack Oaks

    • Landscape with blackjack oaks. Area near the Cape Fear River. 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Federal Point - Fort Fisher.

    • Federal Point - Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Blackjack Oaks

    • Landscape with blackjack oaks. Area near the Cape Fear River. 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher Highway, near Kure Beach.

    • Fort Fisher Highway, near Kure Beach.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Highway, Kure Beach

    • 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Hotel Café, Confederacy, Civil War

    • 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant - Federal Point.

    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant - Federal Point.

    • Ethyl-Dow, Chemical Plant, Federal Point, Bromine

    • Built in 1934, the chemical plant was located on Dow Road, which follows the eastern bank of the Cape Fear River on the Federal Point peninsula. The company was a bromine extraction plant, the only facility of its kind in the nation and supplied a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant

    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant

    • Ethyl-Dow, Chemical Plant, Federal Point, Bromine

    • Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant on the Federal Point peninsula in the early stages of construction, ca. 1932/33. Built in 1934, the chemical plant was located on Dow Road, which follows the eastern bank of the Cape Fear River on the Federal Point...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher, NC.

    • Fort Fisher, NC.

    • Fort Fisher, Kure Beach, Civil War

    • Beach and ruins of Civil War earthenworks, with a damaged house in the foreground. 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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