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    • Miles Costin House

    • Miles Costin House
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    • Italianate style house built for Miles Costin (c. 1800-1873), planter, commission merchant and town commissioner; and wife, Catherine (c. 1809-1874). Mrs. Robt Ransoms Female Seminary operated here in 1871. Acquired in 1885 by John Wilder Atkinson...
    • Port City Architecture
    • 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
    • Pennco Farm Blueberries

    • Pennco Farm Blueberries

    • North Carolina, pickers, fruit, laborers, African Americans, farms, fields, bushes

    • Eighty-four year old Katie McAlister in plaid shirt and an old straw hat, picks blueberries at Pennco Farm, which is about 5 miles east of Burgaw in Pender County on Hwy 53.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Smith-Gore House

    • Smith-Gore House
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    • Built for James C. Smith, (1830-1888) commission merchant as his residence. In 1853 he married Mary Ann Costin, daughter of Miles Costin. The property remained in family until 1890, when purchased by Daniel Lenox Gore and remained in family until...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Goldstein-King House

    • Goldstein-King House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built as rental property for Joseph Goldstein (1843-1928), native of Lithuania, clothing merchant; and wife, Lena Kabaka (1862-1950), native of Russia. Purchased in 1944 by Lucy Miles King (1884-1966); widow of Lott King...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Blockade Runner, Confederacy, Civil War

    • Fort Fisher Beach, showing exposed wreck of a blockade runner. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Battle Acre, Monument, Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederacy, Civil War

    • "Battle Acre," with flag and monument, erected by the United Daughters of Confederacy. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Federal Point, Beach, Civil War

    • Federal Point landscape. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be captured by Union...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Erosion, Civil War, Confederacy

    • Fort Fisher Beach and Mound, showing erosion. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher - ca. 1935.

    • Fort Fisher - ca. 1935.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Waddell, deRossett, Henderson

    • Fort Fisher Mounds and Beach looking east. Gabriella deRosset Waddell is the older woman pictured here, with Archibald Henderson on the left. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Road

    • Fort Fisher Road and mounds. Long distance view of site. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Road

    • Fort Fisher mounds and road. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be captured by Union...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fort Fisher mounds and beach.

    • Fort Fisher mounds and beach.

    • Fort Fisher, Beach, Erosion

    • Fort Fisher mounds and beach. A Confederate stronghold, Fort Fisher is located about twenty miles from Wilmington on the tip of the Federal Point peninsula. The fort protected the Port of Wilmington, which was the last port to be captured by...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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