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1099
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Bridgett Day Beatty was an interesting and prominent woman in 18th- and 19th-century Wilmington.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 37 Issue 3, May 1993,
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1503
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Steelman recounts the story of the 1898 Wilmington race riot, including a sketch of the history of prior race relations in the city and a discussion of the story's tangled historiography.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Spring 1994,
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2380
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In January, 1816, Wilmington merchant John Fanning Burgwyn wrote to an unidentified person a detailed prospectus describing the port, river navigation, and exports and imports. The document is in the New Hanover County Public Library in Wilmington.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 39 Issue 2, Apr 1995,
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5384
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A collection of letters belonging to the family of Mary Eloise Bethell that were written during World War II gives a picture of life on the homefront in Wilmington. The letters are from officers at nearby Camp Davis who rented rooms at the Bethell home when they came to town.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 43 Issue 2, May 1999,
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5406
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Life on the homefront in Wilmington during World War II is portrayed as seen through the eyes of Dorothy Ulrich Troubetzkoy. Mrs. Troubetzkoy was the wife of Serge Troubetzkoy, an army officer, stationed at nearby Camp Davis.
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5407
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The impact of World War II on Wilmington between 1941 and 1945 is discussed by Smith. Military construction was in high gear and included the following projects: a coastal artillery base; Camp Davis, which housed 20,000 soldiers; Army Air Force fields in New Hanover County; and naval and coast guard centers in Brunswick County. Housing was a great need, as were eating and entertainment places. However, the great prosperity also bought a rise in crime and related social problems.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 43 Issue 1, Jan 1999,
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5413
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This reprint of Jane Dalziel Wood's report on a local relief project in Wilmington describes the 1931 Block Messenger System which was created for War Relief work. The plan was \"to have a representative in each city block who was known as a messenger, to collect small change each week from voluntary contributors.\" The money was used to employ unemployed men in building a road.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 45 Issue 4, Oct 2001,
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5973
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Wilmington's past is remembered in a thirty-five block historical district. McDonald discusses how this area was saved for restoration and takes the reader on a tour of some of the restored homes and business buildings.
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10691
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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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14775
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Wilmington's Old Castle, an ancient structure, together with lengthy tunnels reaching to the water's edge, played a prominent part in the early history of the City by the Sea.
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14907
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Immigrants settled Wilmington in 1730 and called it New Liverpool or Newton. In 1739 the city was incorporated and officially named Wilmington. Situated on a fresh-water harbor and near the Cape Fear River, Wilmington's maritime industry was always at the forefront. Shipbuilding and maritime trade accounted for the city's historic prosperity. Historically, ships from Wilmington engaged in naval encounters and privateering during the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Civil War.
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Blockade running off the state's coast ran primarily out of Wilmington. Speedy steam engines attempted to pass Union blockading vessels from 1861 to the bitter end of the Civil War in 1865. In 1943, shipwrecks remains found were victims of the elements or enemy ships. A list is presented for wrecks off Hanover County and points south: Phantom, Nutfield, Wild Darrell, Fanny and Jenny, Doe, Venus, Lynx, Hebe, Beauregard, Night Hawk, Modern Greece, Condor, Petrel, Duoro, Raleigh, Arabian, Antonica, Spunky, Georgianna Mccaw, Bendigo, Elizabeth, Ranger, Dare, Vesta, etc.
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The Cornwallis House built around 1770 in Wilmington functioned as a meeting house for military men in three different historic conflicts. During the Revolutionary War, Lord Cornwallis and his British officers established headquarters there after Wilmington's capture. Federal officers frequented the place for entertainment during the Civil War, especially after Wilmington's capture in 1865. Lastly, World War II brought American Army servicemen from Camp Davis, Fort Fisher, and Camp LeJeune as an officers' meeting place.
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Mayflower functioned as a very active vessel in American history. The ship served as Presidential yacht, engaged in the Spanish-American War, and saw service once again in World War II. Mayflower was a familiar sight in Wilmington because it had been moved for repairs in 1933. It wouldn't be refitted until World War II when the Coast Guard renamed it Butte and outfitted it as a man-of-war.
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Retaliating against the English Stamp Act, 1,000 Wilmington men organized against local English official Captain Lobb. The men demanded that the captain cease enforcing the act in the Port of Brunswick, just south of Wilmington.
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