Shawn Youmans uses a tractor to mow the grass beneath the pecan trees at the NC Boys Home at Lake Waccamaw. Shawn spent 4 years there as a boy, and now has a summer job there before returning to college.
According to the 1860 Wilmington City Directory, Shaddrack M. West (ca. 1810-1871) was living in the house on North Third Street, between Princess and Chestnut streets. The large three-story Italinate dwelling was built ca. 1858. On July 10, 1914,...
"Fleging Brunswick technical College now has a temporary home and a sign at Supply. The temporary home, the school's first, is the former county extension office building. Joseph Bailey Carter, newly named "charter" president of the college,...
The William H. Sprunt house was located at 223 N. 3rd Street, on the Northwest corner of Third and Grace Streets. The home was built in 1900 and razed in 1962. For more information read Beverly Tetterton's Wilmington: Lost but not Forgotten (2005,...
Located at 100 South 3rd Street, (and Dock Streets), the home of Mary Bridgers (granddaughter of John Haywood, treasurer of North Carolina and descendant of Richard Eagles whom Eagles Island is named after) and widow of Preston L. Bridgers, son of...
Fales family, residences, physicians, Azalea Festival, Renovah Circle
Front view of the home of Dr. Robert M. Fales, located at 407 Renovah Circle in Wilmington, taken during the Azalea Festival. Dr. Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington,...
Front view of the home of Dr. Robert M. Fales, located at 407 Renovah Circle in Wilmington, taken during the Azalea Festival. Dr. Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington,...
Fales family, physicians, residences, Azalea Festival, Renovah Circle
Front view of the home of Dr. Robert M. Fales, located at 407 Renovah Circle in Wilmington, taken during the Azalea Festival. Dr. Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington,...
3rd and Princess St. looking West, showing Odd Fellow's Bldg., Woolvin-Andrews Funeral Home and Yopp's Funeral Home, also Orrell's Livery Stable on SW corner
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...
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 Washington D.C. to help work on the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institute,...
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,...