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Wild horses, thought to be descendants of domesticated horses that were abandoned by Spanish colonists in 1526, once roamed the grassy plains between the Great Caw Caw Swamp and the Waccamaw River in Brunswick County. Despite attacks by wolves and panthers, domestication by Indians and European settlers, and a yearly round-up that still occurred as late as 1897, the wild horses endured for approximately 400 years.
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Since its incorporation in 1888, the town of Southport's residents had hoped for rail service to aid in the establishment of their town as a coaling station and shipping terminal at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. In 1905, a charter that eventually failed was granted to the South Atlantic Terminal Company. By 1911, a new company, the Wilmington, Brunswick, and Southport Railroad had begun daily rail service between Wilmington and Southport, including a spur line with a trestle extension that allowed coal burning steamers to fill their bunkers with coal directly from the railroad cars. During World War I, soldiers returning on leave dubbed the W.B.&S. the \"Willing But Slow\" due to its slow progress in returning them to their homes in Wilmington.
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Hall recounts the reaction of Wilmington citizens and other individuals across North Carolina to the appearance of the Leonid meteor shower on a winter night in November 1833.
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In the late 19th-century, a number of barnstorming aeronautical groups were touring North Carolina, thrilling great crowds by rising to unbelievable heights in hot air balloons and parachuting down from as high as 8,000 feet. On August 12, 1892, Madame Leona O'Dell, Mademoiselle Dot Zelno, and their dog Gyp, of the Grace Shannon Balloon Company, soared over Wrightsville Beach suspended beneath a single unmanned balloon to heights of 8,000, 4500, and 3,000 feet, respectively, before cutting themselves free and descending under pre-opened but unribbed parachutes.
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On November 14, 1910, M. F. H. Gouverneur, vice-president of the Tide Water Power Company, and H. M. Chase, manager of the American Chemical and Textile Coloring Company, made the only public test flight of the airplane they built on Shell Island, sometimes called Moore's Beach. More than 5,000 visitors crowded Wrightsville Beach four months earlier, when, on July 4, the pair had planned to attempt the first flight of their self-designed aircraft. Newspaper reports described the November flight, piloted by Mr. Chase, as having attained an altitude of about five feet, sustained for some distance, just long enough to demonstrate the plane's ability to fly. The event carries the distinction of being the first airplane constructed in North Carolina and owned and flown by North Carolinians.
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Geographical records indicate that at one time the coast of North Carolina, extending as far east as the present-day outer banks, was the site of fertile, grassy plains and dense forests. All along the coast, from the Virginia to the South Carolina border, fossils of various prehistoric animals have been found, including mastodons, horses, and tapirs. Some of the most productive fossil sites are the Natural Well in Duplin County, the Castle Hayne formation in New Hanover County, and the old marl pits near Clinton in Sampson County.
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As early as 1819, a new method of transportation had appeared on the American scene in the form of two wheels, separated by a wooden bar, on top of which was a padded seat. Called a draisine, for its inventor, Baron Von Drais, the contraption was manipulated by the push and coast method. In the early 1870s, the standard \"high wheel\" or \"ordinary\" bike was easily the favorite model of cyclists. The first bicycle owned in the state of North Carolina belonged to three businessmen in Wilmington who each contributed fifty dollars towards the total purchase price and placed an order for a Columbia bicycle with the Pope Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, Connecticut.
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Various historians have erroneously assumed that Wilmington's Hilton Park was named for William Hilton, an early explorer of the Cape Fear. The park was actually named for the Hill family, who purchased the property from the widow of Revolutionary hero Cornelius Harnett. Harnett, who was known as \"the Samuel Adams of The South,\" built a home on the property and hosted many notables of the time, including Josiah Quincy and Robert Howe. It was also at Harnett's home that plans were made to establish organized resistance to the Stamp Act. After Harnett's death, his widow sold the property in 1784 to the Hill family, who in turn sold the property, including the house, to the Peregoy Lumber Company in 1892. Eventually, Hilton became the property of Wilmington and was opened as the city's first public park.
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In February of 1750, a fleet of five Spanish ships heavily loaded with silver and spices sailed from Veracruz, the collection point of the Spanish Empire in the New World, to Havana. From there, the ships were to sail for Europe, but were instead wrecked by gale force winds along the coast of North Carolina. The EL SALVADOR, the NEUSTRA SIGNORA DE SOLEDAD, and three unnamed vessels were lost at various points on the Carolina coast, ranging from Topsail Island, to Ocracoke, Hatteras, and New Currituck Inlet.
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In January of 1911, Mr. Frank Herbst of the Curtis Exhibition Company announced that a grand aviation meet would be held in Wilmington on March 8th, 9th, and 10th. Aviation was still in its infancy; consequently, only a handful of people in the state had ever seen an airplane fly. The event was held on the grounds of the Wilmington Drivers Association, two miles east of the city. Lincoln Beachy and J. A. D. McCurdy, two of the most prominent fliers of the day, both participated in the event.
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Millions of purple martins once flocked to Wrightsville Sound in 1905. Their colossal flocks created a nuisance for local Atlantic View Hotel owner/proprietor Captain John Hanby by contaminating the water in the hotel's cisterns. Hanby called upon friends with shotguns to remove the birds, but only the eventual migration led to their departure. The bird's one redeeming feature was that they kept the mosquito population down that summer.
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12.Starlit Concerts and Hand-Line Fishing by Hall, Lewis Phillip The State Vol. 39 Issue 6, Aug 1971
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Today most coastal piers in North Carolina from Kitty Hawk to the South Carolina line were erected for the convenience and dollar of the fishing public, but in 1910 when the first ocean pier was built at Wrightsville Beach, the effort intended to enhance the cultural arts of southeastern North Carolina. Then known as \"The Playground of Dixie,\"Â the recently built pavilion, called Lumina, drew great crowds from daily passenger trains at the Union Station in Wilmington. The pier stretched 700 feet into the ocean and was 30 feet wide.
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