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Winifred Fisher
No full textNewspaper photograph used in Miss Fisher's engagement announcement.
Winifred E. Fisher Womack (1911-1953) was born in Kinston, NC. She went to New Hanover High School, and married Charles Hollis Womack in March of 1935. They moved to Florence, South Carolina in August of that year. She is buried in Mount Hope Cemeter
Hackler-Burpeau House
No full textColonial Revival style house built for James Frank Hackler (1894-1973), native of Sparta, NC, World War I First Lieutenant, attorney, vice-president of the NC Bar Association; and wife, Innie Marie Richardson (1897-1992), native of Marion, VA. Purchased in 1972 by George Oscar Burpea, Jr. (1918-2005), native of Bronx, NY, World War II Navy Lieutenant, educator; and wife, Marie Davis Young (1925- ), natives of Ridgeway, VA. During World War II she delivered wounded, missing and killed in action telegrams for the War Department. The house remains in the family
Easter egg hunt at Greenfield Lake Park.
No full textAn Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore (1884-1961) and displayed at the Chamber of Commerce offices in front of city hall. Mr. Moore was the Executive Secretary of the Chamber from 1921 until 1941
Carolina Beach.
No full textConstruction in the boardwalk area was part of a W.P.A. project.
Carolina Beach is located on the Federal Point peninsula, bounded on the west by the Cape Fear River, and on the east and south by the Atlantic Ocean. An attempt was made to settle the area in the early 1880s by Joseph Winner (1843-1902) and his wife, Anna. The development of the Town of St. Joseph failed largely because of a very poor roads to the coast. By the mid 1880s, the New Hanover Transit Company was operating a steamship line from Wilmington to Southport and the company bought property on the peninsula for development. With the river steamers providing easier access to the area, the Transit Company built a quaint little railroad (later known as the "Shoo Fly") to take passengers from the wharf on the river to the beach. It was then that Carolina Beach became a popular destination for people from Wilmington and across the state. The Town of Carolina Beach was incorporated in 1925
Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant - Federal Point.
No full textBuilt in 1934, the chemical plant was located on Dow Road, which follows the eastern bank of the Cape Fear River on the Federal Point peninsula. The company was a bromine extraction plant, the only facility of its kind in the nation and supplied a critical component in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, an additive that reduced engine knocking in the high-test gasoline of the era. The plant closed in 1945, when the bromine production was moved to a factory in Texas. This photo shows the early stages of plant construction
Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.
No full textAn Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore (1884-1961) and displayed at the Chamber of Commerce offices in front of city hall. Mr. Moore was the Executive Secretary of the Chamber from 1921 until 1941.
During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt to put a portion of the numerous area unemployed to work. In colonial times, the area which became Greenfield Lake and Park, was a rice plantation owned by Dr. Samuel Green. In the mid-nineteenth century, Thomas Cowan McIlhenny purchased the property and it became known as McIlhenny's Mill Pond. In 1918, the North Carolina Sorosis (a local women's organization) advocated that the city of Wilmington buy what was then called Lakeside Park, for a public park. In 1925, the sale was finalized. With the aid of Dr. Houston Moore and the devotion of James E. L. Wade, the Commissioner of Public Works at the time, thousands of azaleas and other flowering plants were put around the lake. Greenfield Lake has become one of the places that help Wilmington make a claim as the City of Millions of Azaleas
View of the northern extension of Wrightsville Beach, prior to the fire of 1934, taken from the Oceanic Hotel, Station One.
No full textView of the northern extension of Wrightsville Beach, prior to the fire of 1934, taken from the Oceanic Hotel, Station One
Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.
No full textAn Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore (1884-1961) and displayed at the Chamber of Commerce offices in front of city hall. Mr. Moore was the Executive Secretary of the Chamber from 1921 until 1941
Greenfield Lake Park - 1934.
No full textAn Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore (1884-1961) and displayed at the Chamber of Commerce offices in front of city hall. Mr. Moore was the Executive Secretary of the Chamber from 1921 until 1941
Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant
No full textEthyl-Dow Chemical Plant on the Federal Point peninsula in the early stages of construction, ca. 1932/33.
Built in 1934, the chemical plant was located on Dow Road, which follows the eastern bank of the Cape Fear River on the Federal Point peninsula. The company was a bromine extraction plant, the only facility of its kind in the nation and supplied a critical component in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, an additive that reduced engine knocking in the high-test gasoline of the era. The plant closed in 1945, when the bromine production was moved to a factory in Texas. This photo shows the early stages of plant construction