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- Oakdale Cemetery - Elaborate floral display at a grave.
- Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves
- (Also see #10 for more information about Oakdale Cemetery).
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- 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
- Fort Fisher.
- Fort Fisher, Battle Acre, Monument, Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederacy, Civil War
- "Battle Acre," with flag and monument, erected by the United Daughters of Confederacy. 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...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Fort Fisher. Fort Fisher Beach and mounds, showing erosion.
- Fort Fisher, Civil War, Beach, Erosion
- 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 forces during the Civil War....
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.
- Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion
- A crowd assembles on ocean side of Lumina. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a chain of barrier...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.
- Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion, Race
- A crowd watches a foot race on the beach in front of Lumina. In 1901, the beach car line from Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach was sold by the Wilmington and Seacoast Railroad to the Consolidated Railways, Light and Power Company (later the...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Wrightsville Beach.
- Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion
- A large gathering on the beach in front of Lumina. Note movie screen on left. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- AF-A_1952_StarAd_01
- Azalea Festival
- A newspaper advertisement in The Wilmington Morning Star informs the public about the fifth celebration of the Azalea Festival in March of 1952.
- Azalea Festival Collection
- Wrightsville Beach.
- Banks Channel, Airplane, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches
- A small boat on Banks Channel and an early airplane above; also shows southern end of the beach. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Fresh water lake and surroundings at Carolina Beach
- Carolina Beach
- A view of a fresh water lake and its surrounding vegetation at Carolina Beach, about 100 yards from the ocean.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Wrightsville Beach - Ocean Terrace Hotel.
- Ocean Terrace Hotel, Hotels, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches
- About 1935, Mrs. J. A. Snyder leased the old Sea Shore Hotel and renamed it the Ocean Terrace Hotel. It was badly damaged by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and burned to the ground the following year. The Blockade Runner Hotel, which was opened in 1964,...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Aerial View of Harbor Island, 1925-1926
- Harbor Island
- Aerial view of Harbor Islands (Hammocks), about 1925
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Aerial View of James Walker Memorial Hospital
- aerial photographs, hospitals, James Walker Memorian Hospital
- Aerial view of James Walker Memorial Hospital, about 1960
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Aerial View of Wilmington
- Bellamy Drug Company, Market Street, St. James Church, Second Street, Colonial Inn
- Aerial view of Wilmington, looking East on Market Street, about 1915
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Jessie Frink to Matilda Cowan Denson January 25, 1863
- Frink, Cowan, Denson, Correspondence, Marriage, Wedding
- An old friend of Matilda Cowan Denson’s writes to her shortly after her marriage, joking with her and asking for details about the ceremony.
- Cowan and Denson Family Papers
- Jessie Frink to Matilda Cowan Denson January 25, 1863
- Frink, Cowan, Denson, Correspondence, Marriage, Wedding
- An old friend of Matilda Cowan Denson’s writes to her shortly after her marriage, joking with her and asking for details about the ceremony.
- Cowan and Denson Family Papers
- Tide Water Power Company
- power companies, Tide Water
- An unidentified man stands in front of the Tide Water Power Company building on 217-221 Princess Street, Wilmington, N.C. in 1922. The TWPC was a gas and electric service and Street railways company. A. E. Fitkin of New York, NY was president from...
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Pirates Ship During Feast of Pirates, Ready to Land in Wilmington
- Feast of Pirates, ships, festivals, pirate ships
- Another view of pirates ship during Feast of Pirates, about ready to land in Wilmington
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Burgwin-Wright House (Cornwallis House) - Market Street and Third Street - Side view.
- Burgwin-Wright, Cornwallis, Market Street, Third Street
- At right are the steps and entrance to St. James Episcopal Church. One of the few Georgian-style houses to survive in Wilmington, the house was built about 1770-1771, by John Burgwin (1731-1803), a prominent lawyer, merchant and owner of...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad freight yard.
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Train Yard
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad freight yard. The freight office of the ACL Railroad dates from about 1900 and is located on Nutt Street, near the Cape Fear River. (Currently [1999] the Wilmington Railroad Museum). The warehouse at left (519 Nutt...
- Louis T. Moore Collection