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Flood After Rainfall, Trinity Methodist Church, New Hanover High School, Early 1920s
floods, New Hanover High School, churches, Trinity Methodist Church
Wilmington High School, located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets, was formerly replaced by New Hanover High School when the first classs graduated in 1922. With an enrollment of 840 students it was the largest high school in...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Students pose in front of New Hanover High School, with Trinity Methodist Church in the background.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Market Street, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches
1300 block, Market Street, built 1920-1922, W. J. Wilkins, Architect. Wilmington High School, located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets, was formerly replaced by New Hanover High School when the first classs graduated in...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Students pose in front of New Hanover High School, with Trinity Methodist Church in the background.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Market Street, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches
1300 block, Market Street, built 1920-1922, W. J. Wilkins, Architect. Wilmington High School, located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets, was formerly replaced by New Hanover High School when the first classs graduated in...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Fourth and Market Streets
Fourth Street, Market Street, synagogues, apartment buildings, Carolina Apartments, churches, First Baptist Church, streets and intersections
A view of Fourth and Market Streets, showing the Jewish Temple, Wilmington Light Infantry, First Baptist Church and Carolina Apartments, 1910-1915.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Front and Princess Streets, Looking North
Front Street, Princess Streets, cobblestone streets
Front Street Looking North; 1890's Cobblestone Street
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Carolina Heights, 17th and Princess Streets and 17th and Market Streets, 1912
17th Street, Princess Street, Market Street, Carolina Heights
Carolina Heights was developed by Mary Bridgers, heiress of Col. Robert R. Bridgers of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail Road. It spans Market Street from 17th to 20th streets.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Snap Shot From Upper Window of YMCA Toward 3rd and Princess Streets, Showing Orrell Livery Stable
YMCA, Third Street, Princess Streets, Orrell Livery Stable
Snap shot from upper window of YMCA toward 3rd and Princess Streets, showing Orrell Livery Stable
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

South Third Street - 100 block; intersection of Third and Orange streets.
Latimer House, First Presbyterian Church, S. Third Street, Orange Street
At left on the northwest corner is the Zebulon Latimer House; and, at right is the First Presbyterian Church, rebuilt after a fire destroyed the sanctuary in 1926. The First Presbyterian Church has been plagued by at least three fires in its...
Louis T. Moore Collection

New Hanover High School - 1300 block Market Street.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Market Street
The massive yellow brick building was built 1920-1922 by W. J. Wilkins & Co.,Architects. The building formally replaced Wilmington High School, which was located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets. In 1922, with an enrollment...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Exchange Corner - Southwest corner Front and Market streets.
Exchange Corner, Front Street, Market Street, City Market, Finkelstein
From the eighteenth century, this corner was known as Exchange Corner, possibly because the original city market was located in the middle of Market Street, between Water and Front streets. In this photo, the building on the corner (at center) is...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Military Parade at the intersection of Princess and North Third streets.
Parade, Princess Street, N. Third Street, Odd Fellows Building, City Hall, Thalian Hall
Military Parade at the intersection of Princess and North Third streets. Odd Fellows Building is shown at center with the City Hall on the right. The Odd Fellows Building, on the northwest corner of South Third and Princess streets, was built by...
Louis T. Moore Collection

View of New Hanover High School, Trinity Methodist Church and St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church from Pembroke Jones Park.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches, St. Andrews- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Pembroke Jones Park, Market Street
Trinity Methodist Church was organized in August, 1889, as the Market Street Methodist Mission. The church met in Giblem Lodge at Eighth and Princess streets, but soon moved to a church at Ninth and Market streets. In 1920, the church hired Leslie...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Hemingway School in the 200 block of North Fifth Street.
Hemingway School, Schools, N. Fifth Avenue
Just after the Civil War, the American Unitarian Association and the Soldiers Memorial Society of Boston sent Miss Amy Morris Bradley (1823-1904) to Wilmington to take charge of a school called "the Wilmington Mission." After arriving in...
Louis T. Moore Collection

North Front Street - View from the Atlantic Trust Building, Northeast corner, Front and Market streets, looking north.
Front Street, Market Street, Atlantic Trust Building, Murchison Building, Masonic Building
General view of North Front Street. Prominent buildings from left are: top of Masonic Building, Atlantic National Bank Building (later People's Bank), Side of Orton Hotel (see sign), Murchison Building, Tower and top of Post Office and the Cape...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Aerial view of Dawson Street
New Hanover County, business
Photograph shows an aerial view of Dawson Street between 16th and 17th Streets in Wilmington, N.C. Can identify a Dairy Queen, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Wachovia Bank. There are other businesses as well.
Star-News Image Archive

Bolton, NC (2)
Columbus County, North Carolina, roads
The town of Bolton is applying for a grant to repair the streets and homes between 11th and 15th Streets. This section of 12th street shows poor drainage conditions and homes in disrepair, which could be improved if the grant is approved.
Star-News Image Archive

Winston Lights Billboard
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, advertisements, trucks, cars, Textilease uniform services, truck 17, west 76, highway signs, one-way streets, Rheder's florist
Large Naegele sign advertising Winston lights cigarettes on the one-way street heading towards 17th & Wooster Streets.
Star-News Image Archive

St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
Late Gothic Revival style church built for St. Andrews Presbyterian congregation. Sunday School annex (1910-1911) given by William H. Sprunt (1857-1939). In 1944, congregation merged with Church of the Covenant at Fifteenth and Market streets....
Port City Architecture

Waterfront between Castle and Wooster Streets
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Freighter, Wooster Street, Castle Street, Ships, Boats
This b&w photographs captures ships along the waterfront between Castle and Wooster Streets. Also shown are the Clyde Steamship Line terminal, American Molasses terminal and the Wilmington Gaslight Company (later the Tide Water Gas Company) plant.
Wilmington Harbor Collection

Sixth and Market Streets, 1910
Sixth Street, Market Street, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, John D. Bellamy, Jr.
Sixth and Market Streets, looking East, 1910; steeple of St. Paul's Lutheran Church and John D. Bellamy, Jr.'s home.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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