Launching party of the SS Jeremiah Van Rensselaer on June 7, 1942, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, NC. Pictured as Miss Ages Morton, sponsor and grandaughter of Hugh MacRae, Director of North Carolina Shipbuilding Company;...
The launching of the U.S.S. Skagit on Nov. 18, 1944, was attended by Lt. Commander A.H. Pike, of the USCGR (far left); Miss Heloise Pike, sponsor; and W.S. McMahon of the NC Shipbuilding Company (far right).
fraternal organizations, children's burn center, charities
Shriner's fish fry, 4 men in line to get take -out boxes, all in work clothes with 3 wearing hardhats, first man in line has 5 to-go boxes, 2 Shriner's wearing fezzes, one looking toward camera and one leaning on counter with his back to camera, on...
Pete Peterson who lives in the 500 block of Canal Drive at Carolina Beach drove his car as far as he could and then walked the rest of the way out of the flooded area. He said many were trapped by the high water. Peterson was walking through the...
Darrell Wolf holds a steel pot containing a rescued opossum Monday morning as fellow Wilmington firefighters Rick Pearsall and James DeVane look on. The opossum was found in the Grace United Methodist Church's dishwasher Monday am by church...
Ron Wahab (right) and John Langone (left) and Sandy Mitchell (far background) help launch the 22 ft hand built wooden boat into the surf at Wrightsville Beach next to the Sheraton Inn on Sat morning. The boat was built at Cape Fear Tech for...
Chestnut Street - 100 block - north side The main buildings are (from left) the first floor of the Murchison Building, (built 1913/1914); the Murchison National Bank-Acme Building (1902) and the tall building to the left, the Cape Fear Hotel...
Originally called, "The Hammocks," Harbor Island was an uninhabited low lying island of sand dunes, surrounded by marsh and Wrightsville Sound on the north and southwest, and Banks Channel on the east. There was a dense growth of knotted live oaks....
N. Front Street, Chestnut Street, Murchison-Acme Building
At right on the corner of Front and Chestnut streets is the Murchison National Bank - Acme Building. The bank organized in March 1899, moved into the structure in 1902. Charles McMillen was the architect, with John H. Brunjes, the builder....
Even as late as the 1920s, rural roads in New Hanover County were far from superhighways. An example of this is the main highway to Carolina Beach, which was not four-laned until the 1950s.
Originally called, "The Hammocks," Harbor Island was an uninhabited low lying island of sand dunes, surrounded by marsh and Wrightsville Sound on the north and southwest, and Banks Channel on the east. There was a dense growth of knotted live oaks....
In 1927, Oliver T. Wallace and Richard L. Player bought property on Harbor Island and within a year were advertising the development of Shore Acres. The house of Spanish architecture (seen behind the trees and a pole), located on Live Oak Drive,...
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Chestnut Street, Thelma
At the center on the river is the fire boat station. At right is The Thelma, one of the paddlewheel steamers which plied the river as far as Fayetteville. In the distance (from left) are the Murchison Building, the side of the Cape Fear Hotel and a...
Launching of the SS Ephraim Brevard on Jan. 24, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, NC. Mrs. R.L. Harris was the sponsor. Pictured far right is Lt. Gov. Harris of North Carolina.
Launching of the S.S. Edward B. Dudley on Feb. 13, 1943. Mrs. L.E. Keith (holding bottle), matron of honor Mrs. L.H. Flowers of Newport News, VA, and maid of honor Johanna E. Rehder (far right) wait for the launching of the 67th ship built by the...