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    • 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
    • Fourth Street - 0 block.

    • Fourth Street - 0 block.

    • St. James Episcopal Church, Cemetery, Graves, Fourth Street

    • On the left side is St. James Episcopal Church Graveyard, the site of a 1787 duel between Samuel Swann and John Bradley. Note that the street’s paving material is brick. Southwest corner of Fourth and Market streets. Located on the southwest...
    • 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.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches

    • Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a chain of barrier islands, which spans almost all of the North...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Banks Channel, Airplane, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches

    • A small boat on Banks Channel and an early airplane above; also shows southern end of the beach. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Jetty

    • Atlantic Ocean surf showing a portion of a wooden jetty. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - turn of the century.

    • Wrightsville Beach - turn of the century.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Ocean View Beach

    • The southern extension of Wrightsville Beach was once called Ocean View Beach after the development company that owned that part of the beach. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores, Pine Tree, Resin, Rosin, Turpentine, Tar

    • Workers hack a pine tree to tap for resin. 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

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