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    • Bomb Shell on Third Street

    • Bomb Shell on Third Street

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, 3rd, explosives

    • Sgt. Daniel Howard of the Marine Corps Reserve Center carries an empty bomb shell to his van. The shell was spotted on Third Street in Wilmington. Police blocked a couple of blocks of Third Street until the bomb was removed. Captain Phil...
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    • 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
    • Lock and Dam (1)

    • Lock and Dam (1)

    • locks and dams, Cape Fear River

    • Lockmaster Robin Hall explains how the lock and dam works at the US Army Corps of Engineers, lock and dam no. 1, on the Cape Fear River in Bladen County Thursday afternoon.
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    • Navy SEAL at Camp Davis

    • Navy SEAL at Camp Davis

    • training, Camp LeJeune, NC

    • A member of the Navy elite Seals, a commando unit, storms into a "Soviet" camp to free a group of "hostages" in a Marine Corps war game Thursday, 8/9, on the site of Camp Davis near Holly Ridge. The Seal would not identify himself. The Marines...
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    • Paddlewheel Ship H.G. Wright

    • Paddlewheel Ship H.G. Wright

    • Wilmington, New Hanover county, North Carolina, boats, steam-powered, Army Corps of Engineers, snag boat

    • Left to right, Leslie Bright, state underwater archaeologist, Jerry Dunn, volunteer, and Dave Carnell, chairman of the board of directors of the New Hanover Co. museum work to raise the workings of the paddlewheel ship the H.G. Wright from the edge...
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    • Spectators View Harrier Jet

    • Spectators View Harrier Jet

    • Naval aircraft carriers, Wilmington State Ports

    • One of the three Sea Harriers, a type of attack plane, takes off from the deck of the British aircraft carrier the HMS Invincible Wednesday morning at the state ports. The three planes took off before a crowd of spectators who watched as the plane...
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    • U.S. Army Reserve Training Center, Wilmington, NC (1)

    • U.S. Army Reserve Training Center, Wilmington, NC (1)

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, military, reservists, Navy, Greenfield Lake, servicemen

    • The front of the U.S. Army Reserve training center on West Lake Shore DR. Two unidentified men, one soldier and one civilian, standing by the flag pole with the flag at full mast. Now known as the Adrian B. Rhodes Armed Forces Reserve Center, 2144...
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    • Howey-Wiard House

    • Howey-Wiard House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for use as rental property on land inherited by Urbana, Mary D., William M., and George Parker Howey who lived at No. 222. Remained in family until 1932. Purchased in 1955 by David Kyle Wiard (1904-1972),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Price-Leiner House

    • Price-Leiner House
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    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gillette House

    • Gillette House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style bungalow, built for George William Gillette (1888-1971); and wife, Pearl Marine (1891-1945), both natives of Marine, Onslow County. Gillettewas the electrical engineer with Tide Water Power Co., World War I and World War...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Oscar Herbert Wright House

    • Oscar Herbert Wright House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Oscar Herbert Wright (1876-1940), native of Columbus County, quartermaster clerk for Seventh Army Corps in Havana (1898), commodities broker; and wife, Linnie E. Alderman (1879-1963). Remained in family...
    • Port City Architecture
    • U.S. Post Office & Federal Building

    • U.S. Post Office & Federal Building
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    • Construction of the Colonial Revival style federal building provided employment during the Great Depression. W.P.A. artist, William F. Pfohl, painted the mural inside the lobby and W.P.A. sculptor, Thomas Lo Medico, created the eight bas reliefs...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Manly-Belden House

    • Manly-Belden House
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    • 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....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Snow's Cut - Intracoastal Waterway.

    • Snow's Cut - Intracoastal Waterway.

    • Snow's Cut, Intracoastal Waterway

    • 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Blockade Runner, Confederacy, Civil War

    • Fort Fisher Beach, showing exposed wreck of a blockade runner. 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...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • 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

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