Neoclassical Revival style house built for Captain John W. Harper (1856-1917); and his bride, Ella C. Strupe (1878-1945). He was the owner of Wilmington and Southport Steamboat Company which operated the steamers Wilmington and Sylvan Grove. An...
Italianate style house built for Albert M. Baldwin (1845-1934), dentist; and wife, Bettie S. Mitchell (1847-1888). Enlarged and remodeled by Edward S. Latimer (1857-1901), attorney; and wife, Anne Huske (1860-1934). Hettie James Jordan (1869-1941)...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Willie Ann Wood Price (1857-1931), widow of William P. Price (1853-1904). Purchased in 1919 by Ludwig Leiner (1862-1951); and wife, Katie Stuart Burriss (1880-1970). A native of Bavaria, he served in the...
House built by Frederick Sadgwar for Alexander Manly (1866-1944); and wife, Carrie Sadgwar (1871-1965). Manly, a painter by trade, was editor of the Daily Record, only U.S. daily black newspaper operating in 1897. House sold in 1915 to Julia A....
This divided back postcard features a group of fishermen posing with their daily catch atop the boat ""Bridgeport"" as they prepare to dock near the Oceanic Hotel at Wrightsville Beach.
This divided back postcard features a handcolored photograph capturing a woman dressed in a bathing suit posing among other beachgoers in front of the Steel Pier at the Seashore Hotel at Wrightsville Beach.
Saint John's Episcopal Church, located at 3rd and Red Cross Streets. This picture us from "Ballou's Pictorial Directory," and was mislabled as "New Presbyterian Church." The corner location is 3rd and Red Cross Streets, not Front and Orange.
3rd and Princess St. looking West, showing Odd Fellow's Bldg., Woolvin-Andrews Funeral Home and Yopp's Funeral Home, also Orrell's Livery Stable on SW corner
The Cut links Myrtle Grove Sound with the Cape Fear River and was completed in 1935.
Completed in 1935 by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, the channel connected Myrtle Grove Sound with the Cape Fear River. Named for Major W. A. Snow, one of the...
The photo was taken from the middle of the Cut in a boat shortly after its opening.
Completed in 1935 by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, the channel connected Myrtle Grove Sound with the Cape Fear River. Named for Major W. A. Snow, one of the...
On January 6, 1933, U. S. Revenue Agents supervise the destruction of 600 cases of illegal whiskey in the 0 block of North Water Street between the U. S. Custom house and the U. S. Government Wharf, with sailors of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter,...
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...
On the left side of the photo is the massive old stone post office with tower and Romanesque detailing, which was constructed on this site,1889-1891. The building was torn down in 1936 to make way for the current U.S. Post Office, a W.P.A. project,...
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. The monument pictured is commonly called the...
Completed in 1935 by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, the channel connected Myrtle Grove Sound with the Cape Fear River. Named for Major W. A. Snow, one of the engineers who worked on the project, the Cut is a section of the Intracoastal Waterway and...
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...