Atlantic Ocean surf showing a portion of a wooden jetty.
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a...
New Hanover County, North Carolina, holidays, African Americans, activities, traditions, schools
Four male students and one female student from Dorothy B. Johnson Elementary School located at 1100 McRae St. light the first of the 7 candles of Kwanzaa. The table holds the wooden candle holder, fruit and wooden African figurines. Richard Cliette...
North Carolina, farms, fruit, African Americans, workers, laborers, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
In an old barn-like area, children at the Gale Harrison farm in Ivanhoe, Sampson County, wait in line to weigh the berries they have picked. Pickers are paid by the weight. One adult male seems to be helping. Cases of sodas, and empty wooden...
Wrightsville Beach. Atlantic surf and jetty.
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a chain of barrier...
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a chain of barrier islands, which spans almost all of the North...
Banks Channel, Airplane, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches
A small boat on Banks Channel and an early airplane above; also shows southern end of the beach.
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a...
The southern extension of Wrightsville Beach was once called Ocean View Beach after the development company that owned that part of the beach.
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage...
North Carolina, farming, fruits, produce, blueberries
A woman (wearing an Adidas tee and Meredith College shorts) weighs a large wooden bucket of blueberries on a portable scale as a young African American boy (wearing a ball cap that reads Chemical Serv Company Grace)looks on. A metal cash box is on...
North Carolina, New Hanover County, streams, saltwater, fishing, boating
Marion Harrell , standing at the end of an old wooden dock, switches nets off his boat (NC 872188) as 2 men walk among other boats on the other side of Pages Creek on Middle Sound.
Ron Wahab (right) and John Langone (left) and Sandy Mitchell (far background) help launch the 22 ft hand built wooden boat into the surf at Wrightsville Beach next to the Sheraton Inn on Sat morning. The boat was built at Cape Fear Tech for...
Neo-Gothic style church built for congregation organized in 1847 to serve residents in the southern section of the city. This building, which replaced an earlier wooden structure, was dedicated on September 26, 1890. The education building, erected...
Spanish Baroque style church built using R. Gustavino Company's patented brick and tile vaulting system, rendering the use of steel or wooden beams and nails unnecessary. Construction managed by the Rev. Monsignor Christopher C. Dennen...
Queen Anne style house built for Duncan McEachern (1860-1925), navel stores and literage merchant; and wife, Mary Elizabeth Skipper (1859-1919). Purchased in 1911 by John Sidney Divine, Sr. (1862-1946), Atlantic Coast Line Railroad machinist; and...
Front St., Red Cross St., Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Front and Red Cross area, looking toward the river, prior to the building of the modern ACL office buildings. (note the wooden passenger concourse to the train)