New Hanover

Wilmington, NC

First chaplain of U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1813-1817; president William and Mary College; rector St. James Church.

Wilmington, NC

Pioneer pediatric hospital opened here in 1920 by Dr. J. Buren Sidbury.

Wilmington, NC

Many Confederate naval vessels, including the ironclad "North Carolina," built here.

Wilmington, NC

Founded in, 1866; oldest men's social club in N.C. Guilford F. Dudley, first president.

Wilmington, NC

Capt., U.S. Navy. After victories in War of 1812, he and his sloop Wasp were lost at sea.

Wilmington, NC

Confederate shipyard and outfitting station which completed the ironclad steam sloop Raleigh in 1863.

Wilmington, NC

For the elderly. Grew from Ladies Benevolent Society, founded, 1845.

Wilmington, NC

Revolutionary statesman.

Castle Hayne, NC

One of the few drawbridges in the American colonies was built near here by Benjamin Heron about 1768.

Wilmington, NC

Governor, 1836-41, the first in N.C. elected by popular vote; first president of Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

Wilmington, NC

Crusader for education, president University of North Carolina, 1896-1900; Tulane, 1900-04; Virginia, 1904-31.

Wilmington, NC

Union assault on Hoke's entrenched Confederates led to the city's fall on February 22, 1865.

Built by Confederacy.

Wilmington, NC

Served the Confederacy as a senator, 1862-64, & as the attorney general, 1864-65.

Wilmington, NC

School for blacks, 1868-1921.

Wilmington, NC

Architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and many other public structures.

Wilmington, NC

Acting governor, 1771; thrice Chief Justice, 1750-1766; President of the Council.

Castle Hayne, NC

Commanded N.C. troops at Cartagena, 1740; led colonial forces, 1754-56, in French and Indian War.

Wilmington, NC

Capt. U.S.S. "Kearsarge," which sank Confederate raider "Alabama," 1864, rear admiral U.S. Navy, 1870-1873.

Wilmington, NC

Merchant, planter, and colonial official.

Wilmington, NC

Captain of Confederate cruiser "Florida" and ironclad "Albemarle.

Wilmington, NC

Editor and humorist, creator of "Simon Suggs" and other characters of the Southern frontier.

Wilmington, NC

Confederate atty. gen., secretary of war & of state; first Jewish U.S. Senator, 1853 (La.

Porters Neck, NC

Planter. Developed peanut into profitable crop by scientific methods at his Porters Neck Plantation 2 miles east.

Wilmington, NC

Constructed 243 vessels at shipyard one mile west, 1941-1946.

Wilmington, NC

Oldest Federated Women's Club in state; chartered 1896; organized in house 6 1/2 miles southwest.

Wilmington, NC

Est. in 1852. Includes graves of Confederate leaders, officers, and soldiers, & victims of yellow fever epidemic of 1862.

Wilmington, NC

Stood two blocks west.

Wilmington, NC

Pioneer black architect.

Wilmington, NC

Confederate spy and Washington society woman.

Wilmington, NC

Governor, 1795-1798; one of the first three state judges; president, Council of Safety, 1776.

Wilmington, NC

First Masonic lodge in North Carolina.

Wilmington, NC

Consecrated in 1875 as first Episcopal church for colored people in North Carolina.

Wilmington, NC

Erected 1875-6. First house of worship built in North Carolina by the Jews.

Wilmington, NC

Roman Catholic priest, pioneer Home Missionary of N.C. Co-founder of "Maryknoll Fathers," a foreign mission society.

Wilmington, NC

Organizer & Sec.-Treas.

Wilmington, NC

Black soldiers & white officers in Union army, 1863-1865.

Confederate major general and engineer.

Wilmington, NC

Longest railroad in the world when completed in 1840.

Wilmington, NC

Established Sept. 23, 1867.