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    • Working on the Railroad

    • Working on the Railroad

    • State Port off Burnett Blvd.

    • Lewis Davis and William Simms beat out a rhythmic sound as they drive spikes into a new section of track at the state port. Watching is supervisor Guy Williams. The workers were setting the "frog," a 4000 lbs piece of the switching mechanism that...
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    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • W. P. A. workers developed land for the public park in addition to building the road around the lake. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • Cleaning the underbrush and trees, W.P.A. workers prepare the site for the construction of Community Drive. During the Depression, employees of the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) built a road (Community Drive) around the lake. Those who...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Workers repair damaged tracks

    • Workers repair damaged tracks

    • railroads, railroad, accidents

    • CSX Transportation workers replace some of the tracks after Monday night's derailment in Warsaw in Duplin County (N.C.). The train's freight cars were loaded with corn, which was on its way to Carroll Foods when the derailment occurred.
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    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • During the Depression, employees of the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) built a road (Community Drive) around the lake. Those who had a job contributed a day's wages to help with the road construction, putting some of the numerous...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • During the Depression, employees of the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) built a road (Community Drive) around the lake. Those who had a job contributed a day's wages to help with the road construction, putting some of the numerous...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Carolina Beach - Henniker Ditch.

    • Carolina Beach - Henniker Ditch.

    • Carolina Beach, Beaches, Henniker Ditch, WPA

    • During the depression, the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) workers dug the Henniker drainage ditch. The natural drainage of the area is from the Carolina Beach Lake to the Cape Fear River. A series of tributaries feed into the ditch, which...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake Park.

    • Greenfield Lake, Community Drive

    • The Community Drive/W.P.A. Project in the process of development. During the Depression, employees of the Workers Progress Administration (W.P.A.) built a road (Community Drive) around the lake. Those who had a job contributed a day's wages to...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Carolina Beach, NC, Henniker's Ditch.

    • Carolina Beach, NC, Henniker's Ditch.

    • Carolina Beach, Beaches, Henniker's Ditch

    • Carolina Beach is located on the Federal Point peninsula, bounded on the west by the Cape Fear River, and on the east and south by the Atlantic Ocean. An attempt was made to settle the area in the early 1880s by Joseph Winner (1843-1902) and his...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Carolina Beach, NC, Henniker's Ditch.

    • Carolina Beach, NC, Henniker's Ditch.

    • Carolina Beach, Henniker's Ditch

    • Carolina Beach is located on the Federal Point peninsula, bounded on the west by the Cape Fear River, and on the east and south by the Atlantic Ocean. An attempt was made to settle the area in the early 1880s by Joseph Winner (1843-1902) and his...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Arab Shrine Club Fish Fry

    • Arab Shrine Club Fish Fry

    • fraternal organizations, children's burn center, charities

    • Shriner's fish fry, 4 men in line to get take -out boxes, all in work clothes with 3 wearing hardhats, first man in line has 5 to-go boxes, 2 Shriner's wearing fezzes, one looking toward camera and one leaning on counter with his back to camera, on...
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    • Azalea Festival Air Show

    • Azalea Festival Air Show

    • Air shows, New Hanover County

    • Stunt pilot Ron Shelly flies over the New Hanover County Airport Saturday afternoon as workers set up booths, planes and exhibits on the ground below. Shelly will perform aerobatics in his Stearman trainer and will give a wing-walking demonstration...
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    • Blanchard Farm Blueberries

    • Blanchard Farm Blueberries

    • North Carolina, farms, fruits, workers, fields

    • Brenda Boney, wearing a Winston cup series ball cap, is from Rose Hill. She packs blueberries at Billy Blanchard's farm on N.C. 11 in southern Duplin County. Several other people are seen in the background.
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    • 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.
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    • Harrison Farm Blueberries

    • Harrison Farm Blueberries

    • 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...
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    • New Hanover County Animal Control (2)

    • New Hanover County Animal Control (2)

    • opossums, animal control, New Hanover County

    • Darrell Wolf holds a steel pot containing a rescued opossum Monday morning as fellow Wilmington firefighters Rick Pearsall and James DeVane look on. The opossum was found in the Grace United Methodist Church's dishwasher Monday am by church...
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    • Orr Farm Blueberries

    • Orr Farm Blueberries

    • North Carolina, Pender County, farms, farming, crops, fruits,

    • 4 caucasian and 3 African American workers are sorting and packing blueberries in a barn-like building at the J.W. Orr farm off U.S. 421 near Currie.
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