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    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • W. P. A. workers developed land for the public park in addition to building the road around the lake. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • During the Depression, employees of the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) built a road (Community Drive) around the lake. Those who had a job contributed a day's wages to help with the road construction, putting some of the numerous...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • During the Depression, employees of the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) built a road (Community Drive) around the lake. Those who had a job contributed a day's wages to help with the road construction, putting some of the numerous...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • Cleaning the underbrush and trees, W.P.A. workers prepare the site for the construction of Community Drive. During the Depression, employees of the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) built a road (Community Drive) around the lake. Those who...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • The Community Drive/W.P.A. Project in the process of development. During the Depression, employees of the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) built a road (Community Drive) around the lake. Those who had a job contributed a day's wages to...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Cape Fear Region American Lung Association

    • Cape Fear Region American Lung Association

    • ROTC, American Lung Association, Cape Fear Region, Raiders of New Hanover High School

    • ROTC emmber Dean North takes a break from stacking papers "just a little bit higher." Dean and other members of the ROTC group, Raiders of New Hanover High School help stack papers for the Cape Fear Region, American Lung Association paper drive....
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • New Hanover County Airport Glidescope

    • New Hanover County Airport Glidescope

    • United States Navy, Airplanes, glidescopes, airports, New Hanover County Airport

    • A Navy plane lands at the New Hanover County Airport with the help of a glidescope which is in the building at the left in the foreground. The glidescope provides angular descent information to landing aircraft.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • New Hanover County PTA

    • New Hanover County PTA

    • disadvantaged, learning , Wilmington, North Carolina

    • Children help Tannis Nelson of the PTA unload books from her car at Vesta Village. This is the third reading center established in public housing in the last four years. Books are donated by civic groups and individuals. The other centers are in...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Preventive Maintenance Inc.

    • Preventive Maintenance Inc.

    • New Hanover County, automotive, businesses

    • Charles Allen of Preventive Maintenance Inc. works on a car engine on Market Street in Wilmington, N.C. His business repairs automobiles on the road, or wherever the help is needed. With all his tools in his van, he goes to the car instead of the...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Students Launch Boat

    • Students Launch Boat

    • CFTI Boats, Wilmington, NC

    • 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...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Wilkinson Alley

    • Wilkinson Alley
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    • Named for William Wilkinson, Colonial merchant and part owner of a rum distillery, who was a constable and Justice of the Peace. During the Revolutionary War, he served as deputy chairman of the Wilmington-New Hanover County Committee of Safety. ...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Portrait of James Walker, Architect

    • Portrait of James Walker, Architect

    • Walker family, Architects, Builders, Philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraiture

    • This portrait of James Walker can be found hanging on a wall at UNC-Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason, then later moved to...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Portrait of James Walker

    • Portrait of James Walker

    • Walker family, Architects, builders, philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraits

    • Portrait of James Walker now hanging on wall at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother, at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Federal Point.

    • Federal Point.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point

    • The "Rocks", built between 1875 and 1881, by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, is properly called New Inlet Dam. The inlet was opened in 1761 by a strong hurricane and was the easiest and best entrance into the Cape Fear River and avoided the dangerous...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • 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
    • Willard, NC ( Pender County, NC).

    • Willard, NC ( Pender County, NC).

    • Willard, Pender County, State Test Farm,

    • The photo is of a harvest celebration in early fall at the State Test Farm in Willard. Agriculture has always been a major industry in North Carolina. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture established experimental farms throughout the state...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Test Farm - Willard, NC - Pender County

    • Test Farm - Willard, NC - Pender County

    • Test Farm, Willard, Pender County

    • Agriculture has always been a major industry in North Carolina. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture established experimental farms throughout the state to help develop new techniques for growing crops and experimenting with different...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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