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    • Chestnut Street - 200 block.

    • Chestnut Street - 200 block.

    • Chestnut Street, N. Second Street, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • A black vendor is in front of the Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood house on the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut Street. Dr. Wood and his son, Dr. Edward Jenner Wood (1878-1928), shared offices on the ground floor of this building. Dr. Thomas Wood...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Overlake Pavilion

    • A walkway adjacent to the lake with the Overlake Pavilion in the background. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.)...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Overlake Pavilion

    • A walkway adjacent to the lake with the Overlake Pavilion in the background. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.)...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.

    • Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.

    • Greenfield Lake, Easter Egg Hunt, East

    • An Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.

    • Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.

    • Greenfield Lake, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter

    • An Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Easter egg hunt at Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Easter egg hunt at Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter

    • An Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.

    • Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.

    • Greenfield Lake, Easter Egg Hunt

    • An Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Williston High School

    • Williston High School
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    • Begun in 1865 by the Freedman's Bureau as an elementary school for blacks; then operated by the American Missionary Association and named for Massachusettes benefactor Samuel Williston. It became the city's first public school for blacks when...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Protesting against Mining

    • Protesting against Mining

    • protests, mining, Commissioners meetings, Brunswick County Government Complex, NC

    • Brunswick County Commissioners adjourned to the chambers after the public input about the proposed quarry excluding many who wanted to attend the rest of the meeting
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Greenfield Lake.

    • Greenfield Lake.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • Building the road around Greenfield Lake in the 1930s. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt to put a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Gause-Bolles House

    • Gause-Bolles House
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    • Built by Samuel P. Gause (1818-1875), a Wilmington merchant. Sold in 1863 to John Van Sickle (1808-1869), tobacconist. After death of his widow Anna, in 1870, house sold at public auction to Mary McRee Walker Hill. In 1887, it passed to her heir,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Airlie Gardens - Lake.

    • Airlie Gardens - Lake.

    • Airlie Gardens, Lake

    • By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Airlie Gardens - Azaleas around lake.

    • Airlie Gardens - Azaleas around lake.

    • Airlie Gardens, Azaleas, Lake

    • By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Airlie Gardens - Swans on the pond.

    • Airlie Gardens - Swans on the pond.

    • Airlie Gardens, Swans

    • By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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