Godwin, Lumber Yard, Lumber, Smith Creek, Castle Hayne
Godwin's Lumber Yard near Smith's Creek on Castle Hayne Road.
The Godwin Lumber Co. was organized in the middle 1920s by Eddie Walter Godwin (1873-1932), a native of Georgetown, Delaware. After the senior Godwin's death, the firm was known as E....
Laborer's houses for lumber or naval stores industries.
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...
The Godwin Lumber Co. was organized in the middle 1920s by Eddie Walter Godwin (1873-1932), a native of Georgetown, Delaware. After the senior Godwin's death, the firm was known as E. W. Godwin's Sons and is still owned by their descendants. Note...
Queen Anne style house built as investment property for Robert Houston Northrop (1872-1949), lumber inspector for Northrop Lumber Co., and manager of J.G. Wright & Son relators and developers; and wife, Mary Wright (1874-1923).
Spiritine Chemical Company, Lumber, Dawson Street, Hanson
Specializing in creosoted lumber, timber and ties, the company was founded in 1878, by Louis A. Hanson, Sr., (1850-1921) a native of Denmark, and was located at the foot of Dawson Street. In 1918, the management of the company was turned over to...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Cammie Lord Holloway (1874-1960); and husband, Elisha Lambert Holloway (1869-1947), clerk at Angola Lumber Company. From 1910 to 1914, residence of Joseph Schad, contractor and builder, who constructed...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Elizabeth Whitehurst (1877-1948) and John Milton Coin (1877-1937), manager of Angola Lumber Co. Purchased in 1919 by Harry Edmund Rogers (1885-1969), native of Dayton, Ohio, attorney and dean of Wilmington...
Built by F.J. Gooding, superintendent of Hilton Lumber Co., as investment property. Sold in 1905 to Florence V. Lawton (1856-1924) who resided here with her sister, Anna Lawton Grant (1858-1942) and her husband, Richard H. Grant (1845-1912), master...
Family Residence of Lemuel Hanry Bowden (1825-1891), native of New Hanover County, lumber inspector and city alderman. Title was transferred (1888) to his daughter Julia Bowden (1859-1944), who married B. Frank Boykin, stockbroker. She continued to...
Italianate style cottage built by Captain Alexander May (1810-1879), a Frenchman, sea captain and wholesale grocer. Sold in 1878 to William Willson (1800-1879), superintendent of Chadbourns Lumber Mill; and wife, Sarah E. (1818-1889) who renovated...
Queen Anne style house built for Zollicoffer W. Whitehead (1862-1923); and wife, Mary Warren Smith (1867-1951). He was owner and editor of the Southern Truckers Journal and the Southern Lumber Journal; president of the NC Press Association; and...