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    • Aerial view of Dawson Street

    • 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
    • Blockade Runner Hotel (2)

    • Blockade Runner Hotel (2)

    • Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Atlantic Ocean, Banks Channel, hotels, sound, marsh, Banks Channel

    • Ocean view of the original building of the Blockade Runner Hotel and its partially finished 4 story addition. Five work trucks/vans are seen ( one has Whitley printed on driver's side) as well as several workers, scaffolding and ladders.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Bradley Creek Marina (2)

    • Bradley Creek Marina (2)

    • Wilmington, New hanover County, North Carolina, marinas, J.E. McWatty, J.B. Gerald, Richard E. Barker

    • Bradley Creek "66" Marina building, various boats docked at slips, as well as a variety of cars, vans, trucks and boats parked in the lot and on the street. Bertram and Pacemaker signs hang from the marina.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Agostini House

    • Agostini House
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    • Built by Francis Marie Agostini (1814-1887) as his family residence. Native of Vastia on the Island of Corsica, he came to Wilmington in 1843 and became a well known confectioner. House is still occupied by direct heirs.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Demolition of ACL Railroad Stage I

    • Demolition of ACL Railroad Stage I

    • Wilmington, trains, demolitions, dynamite, downtown, transportation

    • The still intact, ACL Railroad building at Front and Red Cross Streets in 1960. Parking lot in foreground showing 2 men wearing hard hats as well as by-standers looking toward the building. Two trucks and 2 cars are parked in the lot.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Riverfront of Wilmington

    • Riverfront of Wilmington

    • Government Buildings, boats, U.S. Custom House, Trust Building

    • A view of the Wilmington riverfront taken from the Brunswick side of the Cape Fear River. The U.S. Custom House and the Trust Building can be seen as well as other businesses and several boats of varying sizes.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • physicians, Board of Health, Botany

    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (1831-1892) received his medical education at the Medical College of Virginia. He was a botanist as well as a CSA soldier and surgeon. He is known as the father of the N.C. State Board of Health and was the editor and...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Portrait of James Walker

    • Portrait of James Walker

    • Walker family, Architects, builders, philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraits

    • Portrait of James Walker now hanging on wall at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother, at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores, Rosin, Resin, Turpentine, Tar, Eagles Island

    • Since colonial times, naval stores were an important industry for not only southeastern North Carolina, but the nation as well. World commerce depended on ships with wooden hulls, tarred riggings and sails, making pitch, tar, turpentine and rosin...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Naval Stores industry.

    • Naval Stores industry.

    • Naval Stores, Turpentine, Distillery

    • Turpentine distillery at an unknown site. Since colonial times, naval stores were an important industry for not only southeastern North Carolina, but the nation as well. World commerce depended on ships with wooden hulls, tarred riggings and...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores, Pine Tree, Resin, Rosin, Turpentine, Tar

    • Workers hack a pine tree to tap for resin. Since colonial times, naval stores were an important industry for not only southeastern North Carolina, but the nation as well. World commerce depended on ships with wooden hulls, tarred riggings and...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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