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    • Atlantic Coast Line train wreck

    • Atlantic Coast Line train wreck

    • passenger cars, derailment, antique

    • Photograph is a view of an ACL train wreck showing a passenger car with wreckage on top and a disabled locomotive. Foreground shows show old cars and trucks including a pumper fire truck and an American Red Cross van (Regional Blood Center,...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Navy SEAL at Camp Davis

    • Navy SEAL at Camp Davis

    • training, Camp LeJeune, NC

    • A member of the Navy elite Seals, a commando unit, storms into a "Soviet" camp to free a group of "hostages" in a Marine Corps war game Thursday, 8/9, on the site of Camp Davis near Holly Ridge. The Seal would not identify himself. The Marines...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03073

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03073

    • Azalea Festival

    • Photograph of Esther Williams from the 1958 Azalea Festival. Williams was Azalea Queen XI for the festival that ran from March 27-30. Notable celebrities also made appearances during the festival that year including Andy Griffith, Arnold Palmer,...
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03082

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03082

    • Azalea Festival

    • A marching band participates in the Azalea Festival Parade. Date not listed, but appears to be around 1960. Also pictured are businesses on North Front Street including: Brunswick Hotel, Roxy Cafe, Sears, Firestone, Sutton Council Furniture, and...
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03084

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03084

    • Azalea Festival

    • A marching band makes its way down North Front Street during the Azalea Festival Parade. Date not listed, but appears to be around 1960. Pictured on the left are businesses including: Brunswick Hotel, Roxy Cafe, Sears, Firestone, Sutton Council...
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03085

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03085

    • Azalea Festival

    • A Chrystler automobile pulls one of the floats along North 3rd Street during the Azalea Festival Parade circa 1960. A large crowd gathers in front of several businesses including Pickards Sporting Goods, Jewell-Strickland Auto Parts Co., a used...
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • Masonic Hall

    • Masonic Hall
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    • Third building constructed to house St.. Johns Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M. Until 1899 third floor used by several masonic lodges. Receptions held here for Henry Clay (1844), Daniel Webster (1847), and President James K. Polk (1849). Public Hall on...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Shrier Building

    • Shrier Building
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    • Commercial building constructed as rental property for Isaac Shrier (1841-1920), native of Germany, clothier and real estate investor; and wife, Betsy Willner (1850-1916), native of Austria. Rented by various tenants, including the Telegraph-Cable...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Warren Building

    • Warren Building
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    • Commercial building constructed as investment property by Richard F. Warren (1865-1933), proprietor of Warren's Steam Bakery. Occupied by various businesses including grocery, funeral home, dentist, funiture store, auto repair, gunsmith and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Park Avenue - Post Office Alley

    • Park Avenue - Post Office Alley
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    • Park Avenue, now known as Post Office Alley, was created when the US Post Office was built on the corner of Front and Chestnut streets. A popular park was adjacent. Three buildings that faced the passage still stand, including No. 3, which became...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Toomer's Alley

    • Toomer's Alley
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    • Named for Henry Toomer (1738-1799), native of South Carolina, early owner of property on the north side of the alley, including Dorsey's Tavern where George Washington dined in 1791 on his Southern Tour. Toomer was a member of the Wilmington...
    • Port City Architecture
    • French-Shrier Building

    • French-Shrier Building
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    • Built for William A. French (1835-1907) as investment property and leased to various merchants including tailors, clothiers and stationers. Purchased in 1914 by Isaac Shrier (1841-1920), clothier, native of Bavaria, who renovated the building in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Coast Guard

    • Coast Guard

    • U.S. Coast Guard, Vietnam, The Mendota, Willard J. Smith

    • A U.S. Coast Guard cutter docks in Wilmington after returning from a 10-month tour of duty off of the coast of Vietnam. The Mendota was based out of Wilmington since 1947. Coast Guard families, locals, and dignitaries including Coast Guard...
    • Wilmington Harbor Collection
    • U.S. Custom House

    • U.S. Custom House

    • North Carolina, New Hanover County, riverfront, businesses, boats, buildings

    • A view taken from the Brunswick side of the Cape Fear River, showing the Wilmington waterfront. Buildings shown include the old U.S. Custom House (1843), the Masonic Building and the Tower of the Stone Post Office. Several types of rivercraft are...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Boys Brigade Armory

    • Boys Brigade Armory

    • Boys Clubs, Church Street, Second Street, Boys Brigade

    • Boys Brigade Armory was built in 1904 and was an organization for underprivileged boys. It was organized and funded by local businessmen including Colonel Walker Taylor. It was a gift from Mary Lily Kenan as a memorial to her brother William Rand...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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