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    • Billboard Supporting Billboards

    • Billboard Supporting Billboards

    • Wilmington, North Carolina, advertising, signs, employment,

    • A Dodge truck and an unidentified make of car drive past a Naegele billboard which states "billboards support up to 200 jobs in New Hanover county source: New Hanover planning dept."in an undeveloped area on Carolina Beach Rd. near the Echo Farms...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Workers Clean up DMT Spill

    • Workers Clean up DMT Spill

    • chemical spills, wilmington, nc

    • Cape Industries employees clean up a load of Dimethyl Terephthalate which was spilled in an accident on 421 N Friday morning around 8 a.m. DMT is a material used to make polyester fiber and was taken from Cape Industries to the State Ports. The...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Cape Fear Club, 1913-1914

    • Cape Fear Club, 1913-1914

    • private clubs, men's clubs, Front Street, Chestnut Street, Cape Fear Club

    • The Cape Fear Club, located at Front and Chestnut Streets, is the oldest gentlemen's club in the South. The previous building was home to James Dawson, a cotton-broker and banker. The house was sold to the Cape Fear Club in 1888 and torn down to...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Cape Fear Club

    • Cape Fear Club

    • social clubs, Wilmington, North Carolina, Cape Fear Club

    • Organized in 1852, the Cape Fear Club is reputed to be the oldest gentlemen's club in the South in continuous existence. The building, which was the James Dawson House located on the Northwest corner of Front and Chestnut Streets, was sold to the...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Old Hotel at Hammocks and Oceanic Hotel

    • Old Hotel at Hammocks and Oceanic Hotel

    • hotels, Oceanic, Island Beach Hotel, Hammocks, Harbor Island

    • This page from a scrapbook features images of the Oceanic Hotel and the Island Beach Hotel. Formerly the Hotel Tarrymoore, the hotel initially opened in 1905 and was renamed the Oceanic in 1911. Located on the Hammocks (later known as Harbor...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • South Front Street - 400 block.

    • South Front Street - 400 block.

    • S. Front Street

    • The west side of the 400 block of South Front Street (Block 99) contains from left the Thomas H. Smith House (No. 420), the Meares-Bridgers-Kerchner House(No. 416), the Forshee-Sprunt House (No. 410) and the Governor Dudley Mansion (No. 400). The...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Spillway

    • Greenfield waterfall on the site of the old mill spillway, with fountain in the center. Note the whitewashed trunks of some trees on the right. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake

    • Scene at the lake, showing the water, cypress trees and Spanish moss. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Spillway, S. Third Street

    • View is from the spillway area, looking west toward South Third Street. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.)...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake

    • During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt to put a portion of the numerous area unemployed to work. In colonial...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • View of lake before Community Drive was completed. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt to put a portion of...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • W. P. A. workers developed land for the public park in addition to building the road around the lake. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Spillway

    • Part of the gardens at the lake in the spillway area. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt to put a portion...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park in the Snow.

    • Greenfield Lake Park in the Snow.

    • Greenfield Lake, Snow

    • During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt to put a portion of the numerous area unemployed to work. In colonial...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Gardens

    • Gardens at the lake. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt to put a portion of the numerous area unemployed...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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