An excerpt from Campbell's book, Across Fortune's Tracks: William Rand Kenan, Jr. and the Kenan Family, investigates one of North Carolina's most prominent families.
North Carolina Bishop Thomas Atkinson, among others, was largely responsible for the reconciliation of the northern and southern Episcopal churches seven months after the Civil War.
Dr. Rankin's discussion, the elegiac poem itself, and an introduction by editor Susan Block combine to shed light on both the southern elegiac tradition and on Adam Boyd, founder of Wilmington's first newspaper, Revolutionary War soldier, and clergyman.
Arthur Dobbs served as royal governor of North Carolina from 1754 until his death in 1765. Block summarizes Dobbs' life and offers a portrait of his native Ireland, which the author and her husband visited in 1993.
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.
John Coffin Wood and Robert Barclay Wood, Wilmington builders and brick masons during the mid-19th Century, left their mark on the city with structures like the Grace Street Methodist Church and the City Hall-Thalian Hall.
Prior to World War II, Alvin Johnson and Hugh MacRae rescued a small number of Jews from Nazi Germany and settled them on a farm in Pender County called Van Eeden. [Because this was a large article, it was catalogued as a book under this call number - NoCar HX 653 N8 B46 1995.]
Running the Union navy blockade outside the port of Wilmington during the Civil War was a dangerous undertaking. Emma Henry Ferguson endured a harrowing escape aboard the LYNX during May, 1864.
Colonial travel in the lower Cape Fear region was by water and often slow and hazardous. As the population spread inland, a system of roads, bridges, ferries, and taverns developed. Since counties provided the upkeep, some routes were better than others.
Members of the Latimer and Savage families of Connecticut relocated to North Carolina and were prominent families in Wilmington in the years before and during the Civil War.
In 1835, Thomas Henry Wright gave land on Wrightsville Sound to St. James Church in Wilmington on which to build Mt. Lebanon. Services were held on a regular basis starting in 1836. The chapel has been used and closed several times over the past 160 years. In 1974, it was restored and reopened on a regular basis.
Built in 1862, Fort Anderson was the last fortification against Union troops moving up the Cape Fear River to attack Wilmington. It fell to Union soldiers on February 17, 1865, leading to the capture of Wilmington and effectively shutting off the Confederacy's last supply line.