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    • Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club

    • Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club

    • amateur radio clubs, wilmington, nc

    • Members of the Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club work contacting stations all over the country Saturday afternoon at the club's annual field day operations at the Battleship North Carolina gazebo. Members took turns while calling around the clock....
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    • Blessing of the Fleet (1)

    • Blessing of the Fleet (1)

    • Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Motts Channel, waterway, boats, yachts

    • Two couples in formal attire celebrate the blessing on board their boat, the Suspense IV out of Chapel Hill, in high style (linens, candelabra and cocktails) while othe boaters look on.
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    • Boy Scouts Camping

    • Boy Scouts Camping

    • Bruswick County, North Carolina, camping, scouting, organizations

    • Micheal Randolph, left, and Jeffray Hankins enjoy each others company while resting on cots in their tent at a scouts campsite. They are members of Troop 243, Bolivia, NC.
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    • Cement Ship Sails Under Bridge

    • Cement Ship Sails Under Bridge

    • Bridges, ships, Ideal Cement Company, Cape Fear River, Wilmington, NC

    • Henry Stewart and friend Marry Sutton wait out the Catfish & Rock while the Keva Ideal sails under the Memorial Bridge 1/12/72. By the way, they hadn't caught any fish, but both agreed that it was a nice way to pass the time.
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    • Marines Prepare Machine Gun

    • Marines Prepare Machine Gun

    • Training, Camp LeJeune, NC

    • Sweltering in near 100 degree heat, Marines in foxholes on Onslow Beach prepare .50-caliber machine gun for anti-aircraft use. While Hawk surface-to-air missiles were the primary line of defense against drones playing the part of enemy aircraft ,...
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    • Nineteenth Century Cistern Found at Third and Chestnut Streets

    • Nineteenth Century Cistern Found at Third and Chestnut Streets

    • Wilmington, New Hanover county, North Carolina, downtown, historical finds, archaeologists, 19th century, 1800's, rain water, containers,

    • Rita Elliott, sitting on upturned bucket at right, takes down information from Ed Glazier, center, who is inside a 19th century cistern while an unidentified worker at top of photo digs outside the cistern. It was found under the parking area at...
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    • Southern National Bank robbery

    • Southern National Bank robbery

    • robberies, banks, North Carolina, New Hanover County

    • Officer, J. Fred Newber, crime scene specialist with the Wilmington Police Department, dusts for fingerprints while Southern National Bank senior vice president, Larry Robertson, uses the telephone after a robbery at the bank on Front Street.
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    • U.S. Army Landing Craft

    • U.S. Army Landing Craft

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, ships, Cape Fear River, soldiers, WW II, military

    • Left to right, CW2 Robert Blomerth, CW1 Victor Schoenhals and Sargent Richard Stephenson perform routine maintenance as they spend time on a U.S. Army landing craft The Brandywine, which docked in Wilmington for a time while on the way back to its...
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    • Parker-Saunders House

    • Parker-Saunders House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for John A. Parker (1819-1875), house, sign and ship painter; and wife, M.A. Alway (1826-1861). Owned by Charles H. Robinson (1831-1917), commission merchant; and wife, Elizabeth White (1837-1903) from 1871 to 1904....
    • Port City Architecture
    • River Steamer - "A. P. Hurt"

    • River Steamer - "A. P. Hurt"

    • Steamer, A. P. Hurt

    • Built in 1859-1860 by the shipbuilders Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, DE, the "Hurt" served as a troop transport for the Confederacy during the Civil War and a passenger and freight boat later, making trips between Wilmington and Fayetteville along...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • New Hanover County Courthouse and Annex.

    • New Hanover County Courthouse and Annex.

    • New Hanover County Courthouse, Annex, City Hall, N. Third Street

    • North Third Street - 0 and 100 blocks, east side. The red brick New Hanover County Courthouse, is a Queen Anne building completed in 1892. A. S. Eichberg, Savannah, GA, was the architect; James F. Post, was the local supervising architect; and...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Post Office Park - North Second and Chestnut streets

    • Post Office Park - North Second and Chestnut streets

    • Post Office Park, N. Second Street, Chestnut Street, Cape Fear Hotel, American Legion Hut, Ducks

    • With their rifles, three hunters display their dead ducks in Post Office Park. At left is the corner of the American Legion Hut and the Cape Fear Hotel is in the background. The American Legion Hut was first in Post Office Park. It was later, moved...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Post Office Park - North Second and Chestnut streets.

    • Post Office Park - North Second and Chestnut streets.

    • Post Office Park, N. Second Street, Chestnut Street, Cape Fear Hotel, American Legion Hut, Ducks

    • With their rifles, three hunters display their dead ducks in Post Office Park. At left is the corner of the American Legion Hut and the Cape Fear Hotel is in the background. The American Legion Hut was first in Post Office Park. It was later, moved...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Oakdale Cemetery - Monument of Henry Bacon.

    • Oakdale Cemetery - Monument of Henry Bacon.

    • Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves, Henry Bacon

    • Monument is to Henry Bacon (1866-1924), who spent his childhood in Wilmington while his father, Henry Bacon, Sr. (1822-1891), was the chief engineer for the "Rocks", a Federal navigation project (begun in 1875) to close New Inlet near Federal...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Baptism

    • By immersion in the lake, a minister baptizes a young person while a large crowd watches from the shore. Baptisms in creeks, lakes, etc. were common occurrences before churches constructed their own pools in their sanctuaries.
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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