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    • 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
    • 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
    • Ancient Forest on Black River

    • Ancient Forest on Black River

    • North Carolina, forests, rivers, swamps, old growth, bald cypress

    • Fred Annand leads a canoe expedition that includes David Stahle from the University of Arkansas. The 2 canoes navigate the Black River (near Atkinson) in Pender County. The cypress trees that line the banks date back 1500 years and are part of a...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Autorama

    • Autorama

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, automobile dealers

    • Around 600 cars, trucks, and vans occupy a major part of the Long Leaf mall parking lot as 11 Wilmington area dealerships participate in an autorama.
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    • Bellamy Mansion Tours (1)

    • Bellamy Mansion Tours (1)

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, 5th and Market St., historic homes, historical district, tourist attractions

    • Guests at the Bellamy Mansion, which included Jim Burns and Ben MacDonald, line up and enter at the front door for a tour of the antebellum house as part of a fund raiser for the mansion restoration.
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    • Black History Month

    • Black History Month

    • North Carolina, plays, sports casters, WWAY-TV-3

    • Joyce Grear, left, Gene Motley and Cathy Gant rehearse a scene from Wine in the Wilderness written by Alice Childress, as part of the festivities of the Umoja Festival, which is an African American cultural celebration.
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    • Bystanders Watch Volunteer Firefighters

    • Bystanders Watch Volunteer Firefighters

    • CFCC, students, Wilmington, NC

    • Bystanders pulled up a handful of chairs as volunteer firefighters trained inside a condemned house. Following a day inside the structure fighting fires, the Cape FEar Community College fire training instructors allowed the house to burn. This...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Carolina Beach, Canal Drive

    • Carolina Beach, Canal Drive

    • road construction, Carolina Beach

    • Under Construction...the Northern part of Canal Dr. from the 1100 block to the North end is under construction as the asphalt has been taken up. Canal Dr. is being raised to control storm run-off. W.E. Blackmon out of Wilmington is the General...
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    • Drag racing

    • Drag racing

    • North Carolina, New Hanover County, auto racing

    • "This is part of my farm," says Harrells' native, Dan Carr, who runs Carr Trucking Co. on Carolina Beach Road in Wilmington. Carr is a former drag racer. He built this track in 1989.
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    • Marines Prepare Machine Gun

    • Marines Prepare Machine Gun

    • Training, Camp LeJeune, NC

    • Sweltering in near 100 degree heat, Marines in foxholes on Onslow Beach prepare .50-caliber machine gun for anti-aircraft use. While Hawk surface-to-air missiles were the primary line of defense against drones playing the part of enemy aircraft ,...
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    • Museum in Bolivia, NC

    • Museum in Bolivia, NC

    • old-timey, molasses, barrel, Brunswick County, North Carolina, rural, country

    • Lifelong Bolivia residents Ernestine and Mildred Mercer (left to right) sit in the historic kitchen they set up as part of a local museum in their backyard. In the background is their general store.
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    • Oleander Court Apartments

    • Oleander Court Apartments

    • Wilmington, North Carolina, Condos, condominiums, housing

    • Shows one of the brick apartment buildings [# 5 C 6] of the Oleander Court apartments, which were built in 1941, in what was then a rural part of New Hanover County. They sit between S. Live Oak Parkway and Hawthorne Rd on Oleander Dr. near...
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    • Street containing adult enterprises

    • Street containing adult enterprises

    • bars, tattoo, parlors, adult, entertainment, buses, Camp Lejeune, servicemen

    • Tours of high crime areas and adult establishments on Court Street in Jacksonville, N.C. became part of the marines indoctrination briefings. Escorted by Jacksonville police and Onslow sheriff's officers, the military tourists were shown dark...
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    • Student Repairs Fishing Net

    • Student Repairs Fishing Net

    • Students, Cape Fear Technical Institute

    • Jerome Clark, spreads out part of a net as he made repairs to it in the parking lot of Cape Fear Tech. Wednesday morning. Clark and other members of the Commercial Fishing class, along with members of the Marine Occupations were preparing the net...
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