New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale
A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale
A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale
View of the whale (pictured center), which washed up on beach. A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale
A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Whale - Wrightsville Beach, NC.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale
Whale's mouth and teeth. A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Whale - Wrightsville Beach, 1928.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale
A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Whale - Wrightsville Beach, 1928.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale
A large fifty-ton sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth....
Louis T. Moore Collection

Intracoastal waterway near Wrightsville Beach.
Wrightsville Beach, Intracoastal Waterway,
The idea of a national intracoastal waterway system from Maine to the tip of Florida was conceived as early as the late eighteenth century. Several portions were built, with the first link - the Dismal Swamp Canal - being completed in 1805. Other...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Intracoastal Waterway under construction.
Intracoastal Waterway, Henry Bacon
The dredge is the Henry Bacon. The idea of a national intracoastal waterway system from Maine to the tip of Florida was conceived as early as the late eighteenth century. Several portions were built, with the first link - the Dismal Swamp Canal -...
Louis T. Moore Collection

View of fishing community on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Intracoastal Waterway, Fishing
The idea of a national intracoastal waterway system from Maine to the tip of Florida was conceived as early as the late eighteenth century. Several portions were built, with the first link - the Dismal Swamp Canal - being completed in 1805. Other...
Louis T. Moore Collection

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

Sound adjacent to Intracoastal Waterway.
Intracoastal Waterway, Sound
The idea of a national intracoastal waterway system from Maine to the tip of Florida was conceived as early as the late eighteenth century. Several portions were built, with the first link - the Dismal Swamp Canal - being completed in 1805. Other...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Blueberry Farm
North Carolina, farming, fruits, produce, blueberries
A woman (wearing an Adidas tee and Meredith College shorts) weighs a large wooden bucket of blueberries on a portable scale as a young African American boy (wearing a ball cap that reads Chemical Serv Company Grace)looks on. A metal cash box is on...
Star-News Image Archive

Boating on Cape Fear River
New Hanover County, Wilmington, Guilford, Randolph, Davidson and Forsyth counties, ships, rivers, tourist attractions, WWII, boating
The first boat over 30 feet to be built of fiberglass, the "Knit Wit", which is actually 41 ft, moves up the Cape Fear River in front of the battleship U.S.S. North Carolina. The boat was built by Hatteras Yachts in High Point in 1960.
Star-News Image Archive

Boiling Spring Lakes Sinkholes
Repairing, Brunswick County, sinkhole, construction
Heavy equipment lines a stretch of railroad track in Boiling Spring Lakes that has been plagued by sinkholes. Concrete caissons are been sunk 40-80 feet to give the tracks a sound footing.
Star-News Image Archive

View of Downtown Wilmington from Belville, NC
Belville, Brunswick County, North Carolina, advertisements, businesses, historic buildings, churches, Cape Fear River,filling stations,vehicles
Shows traffic heading towards downtown Wilmington on the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. The skylight of the city shows multiple church steeples, rooftops of houses and some businesses. On the Belville side a sign advertises Orton Motel & restaurant,...
Star-News Image Archive

First Baptist Church
Gothic Revival style church built for Baptist congregation organized in 1808. Construction began under pastorate of the Reverend John L. Prichard (1811-1862), who died during the Yellow Fever epidemic. The building was completed and dedicated five...
Port City Architecture

Steel Pier at Seashore Hotel
beaches, hotels, boardwalks, Wrightsville Beach, Seashore Hotel
Shows the Steel Pier with a group of men looking over the railing into the Atlantic. The pier was built in 1910, was 700 feet long, and had a pavilion and an observation deck and was connected to the Seashore Hotel. The pier was badly damaged by...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Small Mounds at Fort Fisher
Fort Fisher, land defense, gun emplacements, traverse, Civil War
Photograph of land defense gun placement and mound or traverse, 32 feet high, 1962
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Artist's Sketch of Mound Lamb
Fort Fisher, mounds, battery lamb, Civil War
Artist's Sketch Looking North from the mound or battery lamb, 60 Feet High (destroyed by ocean)
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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