New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

Bomb Shell on Third Street
New Hanover County, North Carolina, 3rd, explosives
Sgt. Daniel Howard of the Marine Corps Reserve Center carries an empty bomb shell to his van. The shell was spotted on Third Street in Wilmington. Police blocked a couple of blocks of Third Street until the bomb was removed. Captain Phil...
Star-News Image Archive

Shell Road at 2nd Toll House - 1900
Shell Road, Wrightsville Turnpike, roads
Shell Road or Turnpike, at the Second Toll House, between Wilmington and Wrightsville Sound, about 1900
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Rural paved road. Old Wrightsville Road (Shell Road).
Roads, Old Wrightsville Road, Shell Road, Bradley Creek
The privately built Shell Road or Wilmington Turnpike was constructed in 1874-1875 from Wilmington to the sounds and immediate coastal areas. The road began at Sixteenth and Dock streets and followed the route that is roughly today's (1999)...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Old Wrightsville Road (Shell Road), from Wilmington to Wrightsville Sound.
Roads, Old Wrightsville Road, Shell Road, Turnpike
The privately built Shell Road or Wilmington Turnpike was constructed in 1874-1875 from Wilmington to the sounds and immediate coastal areas. The road began at Sixteenth and Dock streets and followed the route that is roughly today's (1999)...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Rural paved road, Old Wrightsville Road. (Old Shell Road).
Roads, Old Wrightsville Road, Shell Road
The privately built Shell Road or Wilmington Turnpike was constructed in 1874-1875 from Wilmington to the sounds and immediate coastal areas. The road began at Sixteenth and Dock streets and followed the route that is roughly today's (1999)...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Spofford Mills - Grounds. Shell Road is at right.
Spofford Mills, Delgado Mills, Shell Road
During the War Between the States, the site, where the Delgado (Spofford) Cotton Mill would eventually be built, was used as a camp for Confederate troops. Entrenchments were built there to protect Wilmington from possible land invasion from the...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach, ca. late 1920s.
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...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion
A large gathering on the beach in front of Lumina. Note movie screen on left. 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...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion
A crowd assembles on ocean side of Lumina. 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 barrier...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.
Lumina Pavilion, Lumina, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches
In 1901, the beach car line from Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach was sold by the Wilmington and Seacoast Railroad to the Consolidated Railways, Light and Power Company (later the Tidewater Power Co.) and shortly thereafter, the line was converted...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach - Lumina.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion, Movie Screen
View from the upper story of the famous pavilion, looking east at bathers in the ocean. Note movie screen at extreme left. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Rural paved road from Wilmington to Wrightsville Sound and Beach.
Roads, Wrightsville Beach, Wrightsville Sound, Shell Road
Note white-washed trees, which were popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The privately built Shell Road or Wilmington Turnpike was constructed in 1874-1875 from Wilmington to the sounds and immediate coastal areas. The road began at Sixteenth and Dock...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Billboards on Oleander
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, automobiles, cars, D. West jewelers, Dan's fan city, Shell Island oceanfront, Naegele, Rip-Lin book exchange, Captain D's seafood & hamburger, Putt-Putt, miniature golf courses, Cape Fear motors,...
Shows existing billboards, businesses and traffic at the corner of Oleander Dr. and 41st st.
Star-News Image Archive

View of Downtown Wilmington from Belville, NC
Belville, Brunswick County, North Carolina, advertisements, businesses, historic buildings, churches, Cape Fear River,filling stations,vehicles
Shows traffic heading towards downtown Wilmington on the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. The skylight of the city shows multiple church steeples, rooftops of houses and some businesses. On the Belville side a sign advertises Orton Motel & restaurant,...
Star-News Image Archive

Demolition of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Stage V
Wilmington, railroads, trains, dynamite, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Shell of the ACL building at Front and Redcross St.; top 4 floors are gone and the by-standers have moved nearer to the street
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Spofford Mills (Delgado Mills).
Spofford Mills, Delgago Mills, Cotton Mills
Side view of house in mill village on Wrightsville Avenue at Kent Street. During the Civil War, the site, where the Delgado (Spofford) Cotton Mill would eventually be built, was used as a camp for Confederate troops. Entrenchments were built...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach. Atlantic surf and jetty.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches
Wrightsville Beach. Atlantic surf and jetty. 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 barrier...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Wrightsville Beach.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Summer Festival, Banks Channel
Summer Festival - Banks Channel Bridge with boy swimmers racing. 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...
Louis T. Moore Collection

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