Walker family, Architects, builders, philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraits
Portrait of James Walker now hanging on wall at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother, at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason,...
Volunteers prepare panels from the traveling Aids Quilt for display at UNC-Wilmington's Trask Coliseum Thursday afternoon. The quilt, made with panels that honor people who have died of Aids opened Thursday night. Crews worked worked most of the...
Bladen County, North Carolina, railroads, courts, police force, officers
What was once the Bladenboro train depot now houses a police station and magistrate's office. The tracks that pass by on the other side of the fence are still in use.
Shawn Youmans uses a tractor to mow the grass beneath the pecan trees at the NC Boys Home at Lake Waccamaw. Shawn spent 4 years there as a boy, and now has a summer job there before returning to college.
"Fleging Brunswick technical College now has a temporary home and a sign at Supply. The temporary home, the school's first, is the former county extension office building. Joseph Bailey Carter, newly named "charter" president of the college,...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, guest houses, historic buildings, downtown,
An old building at 7 S. 2nd St.( an original brick street) near the corner of Market and 2nd Streets is the proposed site of a bed & breakfast. Today this site contains Courtyard Developers, which has "Diamond Feed Store" painted on front of...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, military, reservists, Navy, Greenfield Lake, servicemen
The front of the U.S. Army Reserve training center on West Lake Shore DR. Two unidentified men, one soldier and one civilian, standing by the flag pole with the flag at full mast. Now known as the Adrian B. Rhodes Armed Forces Reserve Center, 2144...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, reservists, Naval Reserves, Greenfield Lake,
A group of Army soldiers look on as a group of civilians are seated waiting for a program to begin in the parking lot beside the building. Flag is flying at full mast. Two military cars are in the foreground, one has "U.S. Army 1 E 9785 for...
Fifteen-and-one-half acres, known as Green's Battery during the Civil War, were purchased in 1876 to establish a private cemetery for people of moderate means. An act of the North Carolina General Assembly incorporated The Bellevue Cemetery...
Park Avenue, now known as Post Office Alley, was created when the US Post Office was built on the corner of Front and Chestnut streets. A popular park was adjacent. Three buildings that faced the passage still stand, including No. 3, which became...
Front page of the local newspaper, "The Wilmington Morning Star", late teens-early twenties-(n.d.) The newspaper is now titled "The Wilmington
Star-News."
Airlie Estate, former home of Pembroke Jones, who died in 1919. The estate comprised 155 acres. The formal Airlie Gardens, is now a New Hanover County Park.
churches, Methodist Churches, Grace United Methodist Church, Front St., Grace St.
Showing the bell tower of Grace Methodist Church at 4th and Grace Sts. Originally started as Front Street Methodist Church in 1796. After a horrible fire in 1886, the church moved to what is now 4th and Grace. The church burned again on March 21,...
Walker family, Architects, Builders, Philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraiture
This portrait of James Walker can be found hanging on a wall at UNC-Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason, then later moved to...
James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother, at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason, then later moved to Washington D.C. to help work on the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institute,...
One of Wilmington's earliest suburbs was Sunset Park, developed beginning in 1912, by Thomas Franklin Boyd, formerly of Hamlet, NC. The six hundred acre residential area, west of what is now the Carolina Beach Road, contained wide boulevards and...
Built in 1803-1805, the Georgian building served as the lodge's home until 1825, when it was sold to Thomas W. Brown. It remained in the Brown family until 1943. For a time during World War II, a restaurant, called St. John's Tavern, was operated...