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- Cape Fear River Steamboat
- Cape Fear River, Steamer, Steamboat, Boats
- This b&w photograph, taken about 1905, captures a steamboat cruising in the Wilmington Harbor.
- Wilmington Harbor Collection
- Capt. Edgar D. Williams
- Williams, Captain Edgar D. Williams, Diamond Steamboat & Wrecking Co., Fort Fisher
- Edgar Dickison Williams (1849-1928). He was a steamboat captain, owner of Diamond Steamboat & Wrecking Co., Harbor Master for the port of Wilmington, Commissioner of Wrecks, preservationist of Fort Fisher and honorary Confederate Veteran.
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Worth-Madden House
- Built for David Gaston Worth (1831-1897), owner of Worth & Worth, commission merchants. House was rented until acquired in 1871 by James Madden (1830-1908), steamboat agent for Cape Fear Steamboat Company; and wife, Margaret (1839-1907), both...
- Port City Architecture
- Captain Edgar Williams House
- Queen Anne style house built for Edgar Dickison Williams (1849-1928); and wife, Ida Jane Fleet (1856-1923). He was a steamboat captain, owner of Diamond Steamboat & Wrecking Co., Harbor Master for the port of Wilmington, Commissioner of Wrecks,...
- Port City Architecture
- Captain John W. Harper, (1856-1917)
- Captains, steamboats, "Wilmington" steamboat
- Portrait of Captain John Walker Harper (1856-1917), who was the captain of the steamboat "Wilmington"
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- South Front Street - 400 block.
- S. Front Street
- The west side of the 400 block of South Front Street (Block 99) contains from left the Thomas H. Smith House (No. 420), the Meares-Bridgers-Kerchner House(No. 416), the Forshee-Sprunt House (No. 410) and the Governor Dudley Mansion (No. 400). The...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Captain John Harper House
- 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...
- Port City Architecture
- Hansen House
- Italianate style house, with Steamboat Gothic decoration, built for Ludvig Hansen (1850-1921), native of Denmark; and wife, Augusta G. (1860-1918). Hansen was a ship chandler and President of Spiritine Chemical Co. Saved for preservation by...
- Port City Architecture
- Thomas Thornton
- Residence of Thomas Thornton (b. 1834), steamboat engineer and river pilot, and his family from c. 1866 to 1907. House occupied by James L. White and family from 1920 to 1975.
- Port City Architecture
- E. Fleet Williams House
- Craftsman style bungalow built as rental property for Edgar Fleet Williams (1889-1956), president of Diamond Steamboat and Wrecking Company; and wife, Sadie Exum (1894-1976), native of Snow Hill, NC.
- Port City Architecture
- Wessell-Harbers House
- Italianate style house built for Captain Charles L.C. Wessell (1847-1919), native of Hannover, Germany, grocer and saloon keeper, steamboat and tugboat captain; and wife, Anna Sophia Heins (1873-1902). Inherited by his second wife, Rosa Harbers...
- Port City Architecture
- Captain Sanders House
- Colonial Revival style house built as rental property for William Albert Sanders (1866-1933), steamboat captain; and wife, Margaret McRackan (1879-1937), native of Southport, North Carolina.
- Port City Architecture
- Elliott-Brown House
- Built by Mary Taylor Elliott (1835-1907), native of Fayetteville, NC; widow of William P. Elliott, merchant and co-owner of steamboat line. Earl Williams Brown (1909-1971), a Master Printer, owned the house from 1934 to 1971. Queen Anne style...
- Port City Architecture
- Cape Fear River, Wilmington, N.C.
- Cape Fear River, Waterfront, City of Fayetteville, Paddleboat, Steamboat
- This postcard, from about 1910, depicts the Wilmington Harbor and features the paddleboat "City of Fayetteville" in port.
- Wilmington Harbor Collection
- Captain John W. Harper, (1856-1917)
- steamboats, captains, Walker family
- John Walker Harper (1856-1917) was the captain of the steamboat Wilmington
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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