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    • Thomas M. Green House

    • Thomas M. Green House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Thomas Meares Green (1879-1933), pharmacist and surgeon; and wife, Emma Perrin West (1880-1962). Purchased in 1945 by sisters, Jennie Atkinson Murchinson (1886-1973) and Fanny Murchinson Curtis (1888-1967).
    • Port City Architecture
    • Boating at Greenfield Lake

    • Boating at Greenfield Lake

    • Recreational activities, boating, WPA projects, Azaleas, parks, 3rd Street, spillways, Dr. Samuel Green

    • Canoes and rowboats being paddled between the cypress trees on Greenfield Lak where men are shown dressed in dark pants, white shirts, ties and hats. The lake was named for Dr. Samuel Green who owned a rice plantation on the site. The land was...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Cape Fear Optimist Baseball

    • Cape Fear Optimist Baseball

    • baseball, New Hanover County

    • Mount Olive's, Chad Cobb (R) appears a little puzzled by the umpire's call as he is tagged out by Cape Fear Optimist's, Cory Green (L), during tourney action at the N.C. Dixie Youth Tourney. The game was played at the Optimist Club of Cape Fear on...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Geese in Castle Hayne

    • Geese in Castle Hayne

    • New Hanover County, nurseries, gardens, vegetables, flowers, green houses, trees, birds, ducks, farms, Swartville Rd

    • Glenda Wilson claps her hands to get a group of Canadian geese herded back down the dirt road to their pen at Swart U-Pick garden and greenhouse at 3020 Castle Hayne Rd. The 17 geese are owned by Dirk Swart and Ms. Wilson is employed at Swart's.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Governor Hunt at Camp Lejeune

    • Governor Hunt at Camp Lejeune

    • memorial services, Camp LeJeune, NC

    • A security agent, in sunglasses, escorts N.C. Governor Jim Hunt, and Lieutenant Governor Jimmy Green through massed Marines prior to memorial service at Camp LeJeune Friday morning. "Major General Richard A. Kuci-commander, MCAS Cherry Point."
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Grace Church Sunday School Annex

    • Grace Church Sunday School Annex
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    • The only portion of Grace Methodist Church to survive the 1947 fire, was dedicated on January 14, 1917, during the tenure of the Reverend M. T. Plyler. Building committee members were R. C. Merritt, chairman, J. E. Willoughby, J. T. King, T. A....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Marshall-Chasten House

    • Marshall-Chasten House
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    • Built for Thomas Marshall and for twenty years residence of Zeno H. Green. Purchased by James R. Chasten in 1885. Named Shubert Hall by Miss Susan McCann Chasten (Miss Connie), musician and teacher.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bradley-Green Building

    • Bradley-Green Building
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    • Commercial building erected for George H. Bradley (1805-1880), native of New Haven, CT, boot and shoe merchant, after devastating fire of 1840 that destroyed much of block. From 1910 to 1963 this was the location of Greens Drug Store, operated by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Governor Dudley Mansion

    • Governor Dudley Mansion
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    • Built by Edward B. Dudley (1789-1855), rice planter, president of Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad Company and governor (1836-1841), first elected by popular vote. Purchased in 1885 by J. Pembroke Jones (1858-1919), capitalist; and wife, Sarah W....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Platt-Sutherland House

    • Platt-Sutherland House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for Robert C. Platt (1870-1953), retail clothing merchant and clerk in city auditor's office; and wife Robbie Sutton (1881-1966), native of Burgaw. Purchased in 1961 by William Owen Sheppard Sutherland (1890-1969),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Innes House

    • Innes House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for John Innes (1890-unk); native of Scotland, shipyard paymaster; and wife, Alice Green (1892-1966). From 1948 to 1950, residence of Gerhardt J. Whilden, "Pappy Gay", (1906-1990); and wife Louise Merritt...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bellevue Cemetery

    • Bellevue Cemetery
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    • Fifteen-and-one-half acres, known as Green's Battery during the Civil War, were purchased in 1876 to establish a private cemetery for people of moderate means. An act of the North Carolina General Assembly incorporated The Bellevue Cemetery...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Rheinstein-Green Building

    • Rheinstein-Green Building
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    • Originally a four-story Romanesque Revival style building constructed for Fredrick Rheinstein (1841-1899), native of Bavaria, wholesale dry goods merchant. The street facade was altered in the Art Moderne style in 1940 when the building was leased...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Mount Lebanon Chapel

    • Mount Lebanon Chapel
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    • Greek Revival style church built for St. James Episcopal Parish on land owned by Dr. Thomas H. Wright (1800-1861). In 1912, Gothic style elements added by Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) on the occasion of the marriage of daughter Sadie Green Jones...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Allen-Woodward House

    • Allen-Woodward House
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    • Built by Jacob S. Allen (1829-1895), native of Raleigh, contractor and builder. Purchased in 1891 by Hector McLean Green (1849-1925), native of Lillington, NC, timber inspector, Postmaster, and realtor; and wife, Ida Deems Alderman (1866-1926)....
    • Port City Architecture

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