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    • Reenactors on 3rd Street

    • Reenactors on 3rd Street

    • Reenactments, Historic Homes, Tours, Wilmington, NC

    • Chuck Clark, (left), ,George Cole, (right), and Aaron Ritter, (back 1), are members of the 23rd NC State Confederacy Troop Company that is protecting the St. of Wilmington tonight as tonight was the start of the Old Wilmington by Candlelight Tour,...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Latimer House

    • Latimer House
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    • Italianate style house built for Zebulon Latimer (1810-1881), native of Glastonbury, Connecticut, commission merchant; and wife, Elizabeth Savage (1819-1904). Remained in family unitl 1963 when purchased by the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Zebulon Latimer House

    • Zebulon Latimer House
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    • Italianate style house built for Zebulon Latimer (1810-1881), native of Glastonbury, Connecticut, commission merchant; and wife, Elizabeth Savage (1819-1904). Remained in family until 1963 when purchased by the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society,...
    • 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
    • Dr. Harry Van Velsor

    • Dr. Harry Van Velsor

    • Van Velsor family, physicians

    • Dr. Harry Van Velsor (1924-), son of Harry A. and Mae C. Van Velsor, was born in Troy, New York, February 4th, 1924. He married and later divorced Virginia F. Van Velsor?, he attended Rensselar Polytechnic Institute (1945), and Albany Medical...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • South Third Street - 0 block; Market Street - 300 block

    • South Third Street - 0 block; Market Street - 300 block

    • St. James, Episcopal Church, Churches, Y.M.C.A., Colonial Inn, Colonial Apartments, Third Street, Markert Street

    • The front of St. James Episcopal Church is shown at right. Across Market Street is the Colonial Apartments on the corner, next to the red brick Y.M.C.A. building. Oscar Pearsall (1849-1925), a wholesale grocer, owned the handsome three-story...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Cape Fear River - Eagles Island.

    • Cape Fear River - Eagles Island.

    • Cape Fear River, Eagles Island

    • A freighter passes Eagles Island. Eagles Island is located on the west bank of the Cape Fear River, directly opposite downtown Wilmington. The seven mile long island was named for Richard Eagles, a native of Bristol, England, who was granted a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Cape Fear River.

    • Cape Fear River.

    • Cape Fear River, Eagles Island, Point Peter, Steamer

    • A steamer is in the river in front of Eagles Island. Point Peter is in the background. The Native Americans called the river, "Sapona," which is formed by the junction of the Haw and Deep Rivers in Chatham County, NC, and flows southeasterly...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores, Rosin, Resin, Turpentine, Tar, Eagles Island

    • Since colonial times, naval stores were an important industry for not only southeastern North Carolina, but the nation as well. World commerce depended on ships with wooden hulls, tarred riggings and sails, making pitch, tar, turpentine and rosin...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Naval Stores industry.

    • Naval Stores industry.

    • Naval Stores, Turpentine, Distillery

    • Turpentine distillery at an unknown site. Since colonial times, naval stores were an important industry for not only southeastern North Carolina, but the nation as well. World commerce depended on ships with wooden hulls, tarred riggings and...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale

    • A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale

    • A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Beauty contest.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Beauty contest.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Swimsuit Contest, Feast of Pirates

    • Contestants in the Feast of the Pirates bathing beauty contest pose on the beach. The Feast of the Pirates was held for three years, 1927-1929, taking its theme from the eighteenth century buccaneers, who frequented the coastal areas of the Lower...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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