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    • Wilmington Boxing Center (1)

    • Wilmington Boxing Center (1)

    • Wilmington, North Carolina, youth, sports

    • Matt Ward waits for the second round to start during a boxing demonstration by the Wilmington Boxing Center at the Cape Fear Museum. The club was exhibiting their skills in connection with a photographic display at the museum - "Athletes:...
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    • Arm Wrestling (2)

    • Arm Wrestling (2)

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, games, bars,

    • Sherry Brewer, 24 year old seamstress at Century Mills, wins the woman's match as Sam Watkins looks on. The competitions were held at Bulldog's Lounge on Market St.
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    • Ballast Stone from the Site of Solomon Towers

    • Ballast Stone from the Site of Solomon Towers

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, low-rent housing, historic houses, Cape Fear River, Castle Street, Wilmington Housing Authority

    • Closeup photo of a man's hands holding a ballast stone with the year 1761 etched into it. Artifact found at the Newkirk House which was at 511 Surry St. The current site of Solomon Towers.
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    • Biking to the Beach

    • Biking to the Beach

    • cyclists, teens, New Hanover County, North Carolina, bicycles, beachgoers

    • Bikers, Shawn Pearson in sun glasses (left front) and Kristina Sebastian carrying a 1989 Roman Gabriel Celebrity Golf Tournament sports bag (right front) lead their friends Jennifer Suber and Andy Spicer (partially hidden) down Causeway Dr. Friday...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Fall leaves

    • Fall leaves

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, autumn, fall

    • Bobby Padgett took a day of vacation to rake leaves around his home in Castle Cove in Castle Hayne. His 4 year old daughter, Maria, gave him a helping hand.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • North End of Carolina Beach

    • North End of Carolina Beach

    • New Hanover, North Carolina, birds, beaches, surf, gulls,, children, mothers

    • Braving the wind and rain, Brigett Little, holding her 1 year old daughter Chelsea (wearing a hoodie), toss food to the seagulls flying overhead at the north end of Carolina Beach.
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    • Pennco Farm Blueberries

    • Pennco Farm Blueberries

    • North Carolina, pickers, fruit, laborers, African Americans, farms, fields, bushes

    • Eighty-four year old Katie McAlister in plaid shirt and an old straw hat, picks blueberries at Pennco Farm, which is about 5 miles east of Burgaw in Pender County on Hwy 53.
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    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03073

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03073

    • Azalea Festival

    • Photograph of Esther Williams from the 1958 Azalea Festival. Williams was Azalea Queen XI for the festival that ran from March 27-30. Notable celebrities also made appearances during the festival that year including Andy Griffith, Arnold Palmer,...
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • McCabe-Lancaster House

    • McCabe-Lancaster House
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    • Beach house built for Harry Lee McCabe (1895-1962), grocer; and wife, Vista Mae Taylor (1902-1982). Until Hurricane Hazel (1954), used variously as summer residence, rental property and apartments. Purchased in 1955by Luke Wilson Lancaster...
    • Port City Architecture
    • McCord House

    • McCord House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for William H. Johnston, watchmaker; and wife, agnes. One year later sold to McCamey Wilson McCord (1881-1936), native of Paw Creek, NC, operator of Orton Hotel barber shop; and wife, Sarah Hollis (1892-1991),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Ed Wells

    • Dr. Ed Wells

    • Wells family, physicians, Plastic Surgeons

    • Dr. Edwin Julius Wells, Jr. (1923-), son of Edwin Julius, Sr. and Mamie Highsmith Wells, was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, September 1st, 1923. He married Miss Louise Warner and attended UNC-Chapel Hill (1944) and The University of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Robert Melton

    • Dr. Robert Melton

    • physicians, Robert Melton, Melton

    • Dr. Robert A. Melton (1930-), son of R.A. and Jennie Melton was born in Wilmington, North Carolina February 11th, 1930. He married Sara Melton and attended Duke, where, in 1954, he earned his M.D. He was a Pediatrician in private practice;...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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