Brunswick County, North Carolina, stores, trailers, billboards, advertisements, Cape Fear River
Taken looking towards downtown Wilmington you see Belville businesses which include Crisp Sales (new & used mobile homes), Tire City, Petal Pushers, a truck stop and a restaurant.
Jim Russ of Wallace climbs from the cockpit of his T-34 trainer Saturday at the Brunswick County Airshow held at the airport near Oak Island. Pilots flew in their war birds, experimental and conventionalplanes for to let the public see them up...
Ron Wahab (right) and John Langone (left) and Sandy Mitchell (far background) help launch the 22 ft hand built wooden boat into the surf at Wrightsville Beach next to the Sheraton Inn on Sat morning. The boat was built at Cape Fear Tech for...
The cross is over the grave of Nance Adams Martin, daughter of Silas and Margaret Martin, who died in Cardenas, Cuba, on May 25, 1857, at the age of 24. She was on a lengthy sea voyage with her father, who was a captain of a sailing vessel. After...
Inscription on the monument of an esteemed Wilmington lady: "Elizabeth Maund Andrews Widow of Edward Lane Robert Strange John Wilder Atkinson" The lady died August 24, 1915 at the age of 77. (Sec H, Lot #91)
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Grave of Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813-1864), a Confederate spy, who was drowned while attempting to get into a life-boat of the Blockade Runner, Condor, in the ocean off Fort Fisher. Inscription on the stone: "Mrs. Rose O'N. Greenhow, a bearer of...
At right is the Wooster House on the northwest corner of Third and Dock streets.
Across Dock Street on the southwest corner is the imposing stone Bridgers House. Behind the tree in the center of the plaza is the Confederate Memorial, designed by...
Monument of Miss Lizzie Turlington, a Wilmington girl and deaf mute, who was murdered in Raleigh, NC, on 17 December 1886, by her fiance, also a deaf mute. Inscription on marker: "Murdered by W. L. Bingham." (Sec H, Lot # 64)
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Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves, George Davis
The Honorable George Davis of Wilmington, was a distinguished lawyer and Attorney-General of the Confederate States of America. Inscription on slab: "George Davis, born March 15th 1820; died February 23, 1896. "Statesman, yet friend to truth and...
Monument is to Henry Bacon (1866-1924), who spent his childhood in Wilmington while his father, Henry Bacon, Sr. (1822-1891), was the chief engineer for the "Rocks", a Federal navigation project (begun in 1875) to close New Inlet near Federal...
The old caretakers' lodge with the mansard roof is to the left (looking northwest). Burials were first made in this cemetery, located on Market Street at North Twentieth Street, in February, 1867. It contains the remains of those Union soldiers who...
The Confederate Memorial Day observance was organized by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Members of the Wilmington Light Infantry (WLI), Boys’ Brigade, the Spanish-American Veterans and the American Legion Auxiliary also participated in...
This monument marks the graves of over four hundred unknown Confederate Soldiers. The bronze soldier on a large pedestal was designed by William Randolph O'Donovan, sculptor, and executed by Maurice J. Power at his National Art Foundry in New York....
The Rt. Rev. Watson (1818-1905) was a chaplain in the Second North Carolina Infantry of the Confederate army. Ill health forced him to resign his commission in 1862. Shortly afterwards, he became the rector of St. James Episcopal Church and...
Monuments (on left) to the Rev. John Lamb Prichard (1811-1862), Pastor of First Baptist Church, and Dr. James H. Dickson (1807-1862), a physician. Both died of yellow fever during Wilmington's terrible epidemic in August/December, 1862, while...
The monument in the photo is to Dr. William Crawford Willkings, aged 30, who was killed in a duel, 3 May 1856, reputed to be the last political duel in the south. Held in Fair Bluff, NC, the duel between Dr. Willkings and his former friend, Joseph...
Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves, Governor Edward Bishop Dudley
Monument of Gov. Edward Bishop Dudley (1789-1855), a native of Wilmington, who was the first governor of North Carolina elected by popular vote. (Sec D, Lot# 77)
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