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    • Cornelius Harnett School

    • Cornelius Harnett School

    • schools, Cornelius Harnett School, James B. Dudley

    • The Cornelius Harnett School constructed in 1914, and located at 920 N. 6th St. It was named in honor of Cornelius Harnett, the revolutionary patriot. White children were educated there until it closed in 1942. It reopened in 1949 with an...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Wrightsville Causeway - 1929.

    • Wrightsville Causeway - 1929.

    • Wrightsville Causeway, Intracoastal Waterway

    • View of the Intracoastal Waterway from the causeway. View from Harbor Island, looking west, towards the mainland. Note beach car tracks at right. Prior to the construction of the causeway, the only way to get to Harbor Island was by the electric...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Causeway- 1929.

    • Wrightsville Causeway- 1929.

    • Wrightsville Causeway, Harbor Island

    • View from Harbor Island, looking west, towards the mainland. Note beach car tracks at right. Prior to the construction of the causeway, the only way to get to Harbor Island was by the electric beach car line, which went from downtown Wilmington to...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Traffic Waits for Bridge to Open

    • Traffic Waits for Bridge to Open

    • Traffic jams, Bridges, Wilmington, NC

    • Traffic sits at the foot of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge(at Wooster St.) Monday morning waiting for the gates to rise. The bridge, plagued by opening and closing difficulties, kept drivers trying to enter and leave Wilmington waiting by not...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Sprunt and Dudley Mansion

    • Sprunt and Dudley Mansion

    • Dudley family, Sprunt family, Front St., Nun St., Governors, mansions

    • The stately mansion on the corner of Front and Nun streets has been the home of several prominent families. It is thought to have been constructed about 1825 by Governor Dudley (1789-1855). In 1836, he became the first popularly elected Governor of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Auditorium, the Hammocks (Harbor Island)

    • Auditorium, the Hammocks (Harbor Island)

    • Wrightville Beach, N.C., Tide Water Power Company, Tide Water

    • Tide Water Power and Light Company built this large red-shingled auditorium in 1916. Since Baptists throughout the state used it for their programs, it was also known as the Baptist Seaside Assembly Building. During World War I, it was used by...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Lumina, 1910-1914

    • Lumina, 1910-1914

    • beaches, Wrightsville Beach, ballrooms

    • Lumina Pavilion was purchased by Consolidated Railway Light & Power Company in 1905. The building was designed by Henry E. Bonitz and included a bowling alley, changing rooms, and a ballroom that it was most famously known for. It was given it's...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church

    • Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church

    • Bladen County, North carolina, African Americans, cemeteries, historical places, religious buildings

    • This is the oldest church in Bladen County, located 2 miles north of Clarkton. Built in 1818 out of cypress by Thomas Sheridan, a free black carpenter. It is an example of the plain meeting house style of Scots Presbyterians. It and the cemetery...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • First Presbyterian Church steeple

    • First Presbyterian Church steeple

    • balloons, blimps, Coast Guard

    • An usual sight graced the Wilmingtn skyline in the form of a surveillance airship. Made by the RCA Corporation, the aerostat, is being tested in the area. The aerotstat flew behind the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church on Third Street in...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Oil Refinery Sign

    • Oil Refinery Sign

    • advertisement, signs, Brunswick County, North Carolina, non-profit, citizens group

    • Schloss billboard in a weeded area "The oil refinery, the more you know about it, the less you're gonna like it. Coastal Carolina Crossroads
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Wilmington Bomb Disposal Squad

    • Wilmington Bomb Disposal Squad

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, suscipious

    • Wilmington Police officers Ed Gibson (left) and T.D. Eason (right) hand the heavy lid of the bomb disposal truck to explosives expert Steve Bennett after an unusual package was found at 4104 Park Avenue. The bomb unit watched the package for...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Gause-Bolles House

    • Gause-Bolles House
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    • Built by Samuel P. Gause (1818-1875), a Wilmington merchant. Sold in 1863 to John Van Sickle (1808-1869), tobacconist. After death of his widow Anna, in 1870, house sold at public auction to Mary McRee Walker Hill. In 1887, it passed to her heir,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sadgwar House

    • Sadgwar House
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    • Built by Frederick Cutlar Sadgwar, Sr., (1843-1925), black carpenter-builder and civic leader; and wife, Caroline Huggins (1845-1932). He and daughter, Felice, were the first Bahais in North Carolina, enrolled c. 1923. The original one-story house...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Reston-Richardson House

    • Reston-Richardson House
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    • John Reston inherited this property from his father, Thomas Reston in 1853. It remained in the family until the death of Johns brother, William, in 1868. Mary Brown purchased the property at this time and left it to her son, James E. Richardson,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Orton Plantation

    • Orton Plantation
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    • The original one-and-one-half story plantation house was built for "King" Roger Moore (1694-1751), native of Goose Creek, SC and first permenant settler in the Lower Cape Fear region. Fredrick Jones Hill (1792-1861), physician, planter, and NC...
    • Port City Architecture

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