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The Azalea Garden Tour is a highlight of the annual North Carolina Azalea Festival, which is held in Wilmington. The Cape Fear Garden Club has hosted this tour for the past fifty-two years. Block discusses the club's long association with this event.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 11, Apr 2005, p138-142, il, por Periodical Website
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5408
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Lawrence Lee was many things during his life -- CPA, businessman, world traveler -- but his first love was history. He taught history at the Citadel and wrote a number of books on the subject. One of his greatest achievements was fulfilling his childhood dream of finding Brunswick Town, as well as other \"lost\" North Carolina sites. Lee was one of the founders of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society in 1957.
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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.
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28684
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The Howard Loughlin Collection consists of photographs, postcards, letters, and documents describing life in the Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina during the early 1900s. The collection tells stories about Wilmington residents and the steamships Wilmington and City of Southport.
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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.]
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1453
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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.
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