Tileston School, Schools, St. Mary's Cathedral, Churches, Fifth Avenue, Ann Street
Children in costumes pose on Tileston School playground on corner of Fifth Avenue and Ann streets. St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral is in the background.
The original school building in the middle of the block was constructed in 1871-1872 with funds from...
Five children in bathing suits pose at the beach near Lumina. Note the movie screen in the water at left.
In 1901, the beach car line from Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach was sold by the Wilmington and Seacoast Railroad to the Consolidated...
Bathing Beauty contestants pose for photographers.
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...
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Swimsuit Contest, Feast of Pirates
Contestants in the Feast of the Pirates bathing beauty contest pose on the beach. The Feast of the Pirates was held for three years, 1927-1929, taking its theme from the eighteenth century buccaneers, who frequented the coastal areas of the Lower...
Carolina Beach, Hotel Royal Palm, Fountain's Rooms and Apartments, Hotels
People pose on the front porch of the Royal Palm Hotel. Fountain's Rooms and Apartments are next door to the right.
Carolina Beach is located on the Federal Point peninsula, bounded on the west by the Cape Fear River, and on the east and south by...
Lettuce Fields, Lettuce, Trask, Pine Valley, Truck Farming
George W. Trask (on left) and a foreman pose at Trask’s Farm, Blythe Savannah, now known as Pine Valley. Lettuce was a staple of the truck farming industry.
Cape Fear Hotel, N. Second Street, Chestnut Street
An unidentified group of what looks to be dancers pose in front of the hotel's main entrance. A nine-story structure, the Cape Fear Hotel (1923-1925) was designed by G. Lloyd Preacher, an Atlanta and Raleigh architect, whose other commissions...
Wilmington Fire Department, Firefighters, S. Fourth Street, Dock Street
Firemen, who collected toys for Christmas, pose at the base of the fire tower at Fire Headquarters, Fourth and Dock streets. The roof of the Donald MacRae house can be seen at the left.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Market Street, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches
1300 block, Market Street, built 1920-1922, W. J. Wilkins, Architect.
Wilmington High School, located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets, was formerly replaced by New Hanover High School when the first classs graduated in...