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    • Sprunt and Dudley Mansion

    • Sprunt and Dudley Mansion

    • Dudley family, Sprunt family, Front St., Nun St., Governors, mansions

    • The stately mansion on the corner of Front and Nun streets has been the home of several prominent families. It is thought to have been constructed about 1825 by Governor Dudley (1789-1855). In 1836, he became the first popularly elected Governor of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales 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
    • Wrightsville Beach - Banks Channel.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Banks Channel.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Banks Channel, Oceanic, Hotels, Frying Pan Boat Club

    • Boats tied up at the Frying Pan Boat Club dock on Banks Channel, north of the bridge. The Oceanic Hotel is in the background. The hotel's pavilion is at right, where boats were kept to carry guests out into the ocean via Moore's Inlet, which was...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Cape Fear River - Steamer, Wilmington.

    • Cape Fear River - Steamer, Wilmington.

    • Cape Fear River, Steamer, Wilmington

    • The legendary steamer, Wilmington, was owned by John W. Harper (1856-1917), who was also her captain. Capt. Harper began taking passengers down the Cape Fear River from Wilmington to Southport about 1887. He owned two boats - the Passport and the...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Biking along Park Avenue

    • Biking along Park Avenue

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, paths, trails, cyclists, bicycles, crimes,

    • Residents on Camellia Dr. are not worried about the recreational bikers, like the lone rider pictured, who use the existing bike trail that follows Park Ave., but are more concerned with criminals who use it for easy access from low-income to more...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Carolina Beach Palms

    • Carolina Beach Palms

    • palm trees, sanitation department, Carolina Beach

    • Danny Hemrick, who works for the Carolina Beach Sanitation Department, waters one of the palm trees recently planted along Park Blvd. at Carolina Beach. The town waters 66 palm trees daily which takes about 2,000 gallons of water and is pumped by a...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Carolina Beach Town Hall (2)

    • Carolina Beach Town Hall (2)

    • flooding, municipal buildings, Carolina Beach

    • Carolina Beach City Parks and Recreation worker Fred Clemmons sweeps the water out of the Carolina Beach Town Hall from Thursday's high tides and storm. The water was about ankle deep inside the town hall/police dept.
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    • CFCC Nursing Students

    • CFCC Nursing Students

    • Students, Cape Fear Community College, New Hanover Memorial Hospital

    • Cape Fear Ccommunity College Nursing Students talk about their first day of hands on experience at New Hanover Memorial Hospital Thursday.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Childen Celebrate Kwanzaa

    • Childen Celebrate Kwanzaa

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, holidays, African Americans, activities, traditions, schools

    • Four male students and one female student from Dorothy B. Johnson Elementary School located at 1100 McRae St. light the first of the 7 candles of Kwanzaa. The table holds the wooden candle holder, fruit and wooden African figurines. Richard Cliette...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Children in Class at Recreation Center

    • Children in Class at Recreation Center

    • Bible school, African American, Christian activities, New Hanover County, North Carolina, boys and girls, drawing, ping pong table, bumper pool

    • Evangelist, Amy James, leads a group of children in drawing lessons during Bible study in the afternoon at the Vesta Village recreation center in Wilmington. She leads weekly Bible studies for about 20 children in the complex just off the 1800...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Oil Refinery Sign

    • Oil Refinery Sign

    • advertisement, signs, Brunswick County, North Carolina, non-profit, citizens group

    • Schloss billboard in a weeded area "The oil refinery, the more you know about it, the less you're gonna like it. Coastal Carolina Crossroads
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Pennco Farm Blueberries

    • Pennco Farm Blueberries

    • North Carolina, pickers, fruit, laborers, African Americans, farms, fields, bushes

    • Eighty-four year old Katie McAlister in plaid shirt and an old straw hat, picks blueberries at Pennco Farm, which is about 5 miles east of Burgaw in Pender County on Hwy 53.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • 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
    • Volunteers Sort Food

    • Volunteers Sort Food

    • Cape Fear Gospel Mission

    • Volunteers L.E. Boyd (left) and Pete Styron (right) begin early Thursday morning as they sort out several long lines of food stuffs in the chapel at Cape Fear Gospel Rescue Mission. Volunteers gathered to distribute bags of food, turkeys, clothes...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • May-Willson House

    • May-Willson House
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    • Italianate style cottage built by Captain Alexander May (1810-1879), a Frenchman, sea captain and wholesale grocer. Sold in 1878 to William Willson (1800-1879), superintendent of Chadbourns Lumber Mill; and wife, Sarah E. (1818-1889) who renovated...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Grant-Stevenson House

    • Grant-Stevenson House
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    • North wing, c. 1875, built for Ruben Grant (1810-1880), Methodist minister; and wife, Sarah Ann Dawson (1823-1888). South wing, c. 1872, built for James C. Stevenson (1847-1907), wholesale grocer; and wife, Elizabeth J. Smith (1850-1919). Son,...
    • Port City Architecture

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