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    • Sprunt and Dudley Mansion

    • Sprunt and Dudley Mansion

    • Dudley family, Sprunt family, Front St., Nun St., Governors, mansions

    • The stately mansion on the corner of Front and Nun streets has been the home of several prominent families. It is thought to have been constructed about 1825 by Governor Dudley (1789-1855). In 1836, he became the first popularly elected Governor of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Bennigan's Restaurant Birthday

    • Bennigan's Restaurant Birthday

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, restaurants, eateries, S. College Rd,

    • After his meal, Bill Freeman of Wilmington has a cake brought to his table for his birthday party at Bennigan's restaurant. Several women are seated with Bill as 1 waitress and 2 waiters clap and sing happy birthday. Other customers are seen in the...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Bingo at the Moose Lodge

    • Bingo at the Moose Lodge

    • WIlmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, games, meeting halls, clubs, fraternal organizations,

    • Alva Corbett (left) and Gertrude Corbet (beside Alva) play multiple bingo cards at senior day at the Moose Lodge at 4610 Carolina Beach Rd. There are several other players at the table but they aren't identified.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Blanchard Farm Blueberries

    • Blanchard Farm Blueberries

    • North Carolina, farms, fruits, workers, fields

    • Brenda Boney, wearing a Winston cup series ball cap, is from Rose Hill. She packs blueberries at Billy Blanchard's farm on N.C. 11 in southern Duplin County. Several other people are seen in the background.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Blockade Runner Hotel (2)

    • Blockade Runner Hotel (2)

    • Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Atlantic Ocean, Banks Channel, hotels, sound, marsh, Banks Channel

    • Ocean view of the original building of the Blockade Runner Hotel and its partially finished 4 story addition. Five work trucks/vans are seen ( one has Whitley printed on driver's side) as well as several workers, scaffolding and ladders.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Volunteers Sort Food

    • Volunteers Sort Food

    • Cape Fear Gospel Mission

    • Volunteers L.E. Boyd (left) and Pete Styron (right) begin early Thursday morning as they sort out several long lines of food stuffs in the chapel at Cape Fear Gospel Rescue Mission. Volunteers gathered to distribute bags of food, turkeys, clothes...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Working on the Railroad

    • Working on the Railroad

    • State Port off Burnett Blvd.

    • Lewis Davis and William Simms beat out a rhythmic sound as they drive spikes into a new section of track at the state port. Watching is supervisor Guy Williams. The workers were setting the "frog," a 4000 lbs piece of the switching mechanism that...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03085

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03085

    • Azalea Festival

    • A Chrystler automobile pulls one of the floats along North 3rd Street during the Azalea Festival Parade circa 1960. A large crowd gathers in front of several businesses including Pickards Sporting Goods, Jewell-Strickland Auto Parts Co., a used...
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • Masonic Hall

    • Masonic Hall
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    • Third building constructed to house St.. Johns Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M. Until 1899 third floor used by several masonic lodges. Receptions held here for Henry Clay (1844), Daniel Webster (1847), and President James K. Polk (1849). Public Hall on...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cook-Matthews House

    • Cook-Matthews House
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    • Queen Anne style cottage built by Abraham B. Cook (1839-1908), carpenter, who constructed several buildings in the neighborhood; and wife Eliza A. (1840-1912), used as their residence. In 1913, purchased by daughter Allena C. Matthews (1880-1968);...
    • Port City Architecture
    • A Good Day's Catch, N.C.--1

    • A Good Day's Catch, N.C.--1

    • Wrightsville Beach

    • This divided back postcard contains two illustrations--one featuring a boy standing next to large dangling fish, and the other features fishermen carrying a pole which is carrying several loads of fish.
    • Postcard Collections
    • Southport Street View

    • Southport Street View

    • automobiles, transportation, Brunswick County

    • A Street scene of Southport showing homes and businesses. A horse and buggy and several old trucks are seen on the unpaved Street. A water tower is viewed over the trees in the background. Utility poles are on the corners of the road.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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