The idea of a national intracoastal waterway system from Maine to the tip of Florida was conceived as early as the late eighteenth century. Several portions were built, with the first link - the Dismal Swamp Canal - being completed in 1805. Other...
This divided back postcard features a colored photograph capturing the electric railroad bridge which crosses the sound between Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington, N.C.
This divided back postcard features a colored photograph capturing the electric railroad bridge which crosses the sound between Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington, N.C.
Wrightsville Beach, Wrightsville Sound, Babies Hospital, Hospitals
View is from the top of Babies Hospital (note tile roof on left) on Wrightsville Sound, showing causeway and beach car line from mainland across to the beach. The tower in the center background is that of the Wrightsville Sound beach car station....
The idea of a national intracoastal waterway system from Maine to the tip of Florida was conceived as early as the late eighteenth century. Several portions were built, with the first link - the Dismal Swamp Canal - being completed in 1805. Other...
This divided back postcard features an illustration of a mermaid and a black and white photograph advertising the Marina Restaurant at Wrightsville Beach.
Image shows crowded water slide and pier on the sound side of Lumina at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. The water slide was erected by the owners of Lumina. The relative still waters of the sound made it easier to swim there rather than in the surf of...
Three men hoist a large stingray, pronounced locally sting-a-ree, culled from Wrightsville Sound around 1925. The stingrays are a family—Dasyatidae—of rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are common in coastal tropical and...