Banks Channel, Airplane, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches
A small boat on Banks Channel and an early airplane above; also shows southern end of the beach.
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...
The island contains about one acre of high ground and for years, it was overgrown with live oaks and cedar trees, whose growth was retarded by very poor soil and exposure to numerous storms. In the early eighteenth century, the Carolina coast was a...
Hallsboro, NC, Columbus County, showing Pierce and Company General Store, across the highway from the double railroad tracks, that bisected the small town.
North Carolina, New Hanover County, boating, fishing, supplies, dry storage, intracoastal Waterway, Atlantic Ocean, businesses, Redix, Blue Water Grill
Small Bayliner boats line the parking lot at Atlantic Marine at 101 Keel St, Wrightsville Beach, N.C. The marina is a family-owned business which started in 1975.
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, historic places, slave quarters, Market St and 5th St., mansions, fires, antebellum architecture
A burned area around one of the marbalized slate fireplaces on the ground floor in the Bellamy Mansion. 2 small glass containers and a framed needlepoint (God bless our home) rests on the mantle.
A crowd gathers around Bobby Hester's P51 Mustang at the Brunswick County Airport near Oak Island during Saturday's airshow. Fans got close looks at experimental and conventional small aircraft along with a few acrobatic moves from regional stunt...
Four Oaks, Johnston County, North Carolina, Civil War, War Between the States, Union Army, uniforms, historic sites, reenactments
North Carolina's largest Civil War re-enactment at Bentonville: In costume Chuck Clark with snare drum, Brent Boss carrying Confederate flag, Aaron Ritter wearing Army hat and an unidentifed man carrying a rifle with bayonet attached, marching by a...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, buyers, sellers, bidders, bicycles, stolen items, law enforcement
Wilmington police department's Lieutenant C.M. James, wearing police overalls and a police ball cap, tags a small light-colored girls bike.Volunteer Vincent Wilson holds it steady as the bike goes on the auction block at the Wilmington Police...
Built as real estate office by Carl Peter Barthold Mahler (1874-1956), realtor, builder. Rented after c.1917 to a succession of small businesses. Mahler and wife. Meta Brunjes (1868-1957), natives of Hannover, Germany, lived in the deRosset house...
Craftsman style bungalow built by Solomon Sternberger (1870-1945), dry goods merchant, for son, Julius Earl "Jinx" Sternberger (1897-1966), World War I veteran, realtor, director of Carolina Savings & Loan; and wife, Sadibel Simon (1904-1983),...
Craftsman style bungalow built for Robert McLaughlin (1885-1942), mortician and owner of McLaughlin Funeral Home. Purchased in 1944 by George L. Richard (1895-1975), shipyard worker and small business operator; and wife, Millie Bryant (1907-1994),...