Regency Revival style house built for Alexander Sprunt (1890-1957), president, Alexander Sprunt and Son, cotton exporters, Wilmington Shipping and Wilmington Terminal Warehouse; and wife, Lula Clegg Frere (1891-1977), native of Franklin, LA,...
Queen Anne style house built for Benjamin Bell (1852-1923), co-founder and president of Jackson & Bell Co., printers, and owner of The Messenger newspaper. Inherited by son, Zack Kershaw Bell (1883-1963), vice-president of Jackson & Bell Co.; and...
The cemetery, incorporated in 1872, is located on Princess Place Drive (formerly the Old New Bern Road), west of Burnt Mill Creek, and contains about fifteen acres. The date of the first burial is unknown, but by April of 1878, there appears...
William Block (1874-1954), a native of Riga, immigrated to Baltimore, MD, in 1887, and was in the textile business. In the middle 1920s, he sent his son, Nathan Ellis Block (1903-1986), to Wilmington to investigate the possibility of locating a...
Commercial building erected for George H. Bradley (1805-1880), native of New Haven, CT, boot and shoe merchant, after devastating fire of 1840 that destroyed much of block. From 1910 to 1963 this was the location of Greens Drug Store, operated by...
Cape Fear River, Ferry, Gas Launch, The Mary, Eagles Island
A ferry is poled across the river carrying a horse drawn cart. The man standing near the stern is William Jones. Jones and his son ran the ferry for owner, Oscar Durant. The gas launch was called, The Mary. Eagles Island is in the background.
Italianate style house built during ownership of Susan Hawes Redding (1820-1902), seamstress; and son, Charles Hawes (1837-1893). Rear addition and modifications made by David N. Chadwick (1856-1914), saloon keeper.
Cottage built for Sarah E. Chapman (born c. 1807), who resided here with Ivey Prescott Bell (1814-1868), ship carpenter; and wife, Rebecca (1826-1909); and son, Benjamin (1852-1923), co-founder of Jackson & Bell, printers. Purchased in 1927 for...
Chestnut Street, N. Second Street, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood
A black vendor is in front of the Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood house on the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut Street.
Dr. Wood and his son, Dr. Edward Jenner Wood (1878-1928), shared offices on the ground floor of this building. Dr. Thomas Wood...
Coca-Cola, Coke, Plant, N. Tenth Street, Princess Street, Hutaff
In the early 1880s, Henry Hutaff (1834-1893), a native of the Province of Hannover, Germany, was bottling soda water, ginger pop and sarsaparilla, taking advantage of a new invention whereby ordinary water was charged with carbon dioxide which...
This b&w photograph captures a ferry crossing the Cape Fear River. The man standing near the stern is William Jones. Jones and his son ran the ferry for owner, Oscar Durant. The gas launch was called, "The Mary."
Hall family, Pharmacists, pharmacies, Oakdale Cemetery
Dr. James Malcolm Hall at his drug store on 5th and Castle Streets, which he owned and operated since 1901. Mr. Hall, otherwise known as "Doc Hall," and "The Mayor of Drypond," (for his active role in civic matters), was born in Sampson County,...
Dr. William Ferrell Shuford, Jr. (1936-), son of William Ferrell, Sr. and Mae Reel Shuford, was born in New Bern, North Carolina, July 18th, 1936. He married Miss Rebecca Anne Johnson and attended UNC-Chapel Hill, (1957), where he also earned his...
Black family, physicians, Hall family, Caines family
Dr. Paul Adrian Laurence Black (1906-), son of Walter L. and Kathleen M. Knight, was born in Medord, Oregon, September 30th, 1906. He married and divorced Patricia Hall and married Mona Faye Caines. He was in private practice (Oph & Ot) and served...
Dr. Andrew Howell Harriss, son of George Harriss and Julia Ophelia Sanders Harriss, was born March 7th, 1872 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Mary Montgomery Wilcox Bolles October 14th, 1896. His grandfather, William James Harris was...
Dr. Auley McRae Crouch, Jr. (1919-1969), son of Auley McRae and Muriel Lee McFales Crouch, was born in Raleigh, N.C., August 24th, 1919. His father, Auley Sr. and brother, Walter Lee, were also M.D.'s (Ped.) He received his M.D. from Jefferson...
Dr. Auley McRae Crouch, Sr., received his M.D. from Jefferson College in 1916. He married Miss Muriel Lee Fales and together they had two sons, Auley McRae Crouch, Jr. and Walter Lee Crouch, who also became Physicians. Notable achievements:...
Dr. Bertram R. Williams (1920-), son of Ralph B. and Bessie Sutton Williams, was born on July 4th, 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Ellen Shannon and attended UNC-Chapel Hill (1940) and Vanderbilt University, where he recieved...
Dineen family, Seger family, Johnson family, physicians, Sports Medicine
Dr. James Robert Dineen (1921-), son of James Jay and Marguerite C. Dineen, was born in Corning, N.Y., September 24th, 1921. He was married to Dorothy Seger, whom he divorced, and married his second wife, Miss Frances Johnson. He attended...