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Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S. Katherine Mayo Cowan (January 10, 1883 – December 5, 1975) was the first woman mayor in North Carolina , [ 1 ] and as of 2021, the only woman to serve as mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina .
Luther Henry Jordan, Jr. (1 June 1950 – 23 April 2002) was a Democratic politician from North Carolina and a senior member of the North Carolina General Assembly. Jordan was born in New York City and moved to North Carolina as a child.
The Wilmington Journal is a newspaper in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is North Carolina's oldest existing newspaper for African Americans. [1] [2] R. S. Jervay established the paper in 1927. It continued under his son Thomas C. Jervay Sr. [3]
William B. Gould was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 18, 1837, [2] to an enslaved woman, Elizabeth "Betsy" Moore, [a] and Alexander Gould, an English-born resident of Granville County, NC. [4] He was enslaved by Nicholas Nixon, a peanut planter [5] [6] who owned a large plantation on Porters Neck [7] and at Rocky Point.
The result was a one-hour documentary entitled Africa Adventure, released by RKO pictures. Though extremely difficult to find, a 16mm print of this movie was discovered in 2002, and a DVD copy was created and donated to the Robert Ruark Foundation in Southport, North Carolina. An online version was subsequently posted on a popular consumer ...
Allison Ballard, Wilmington StarNews June 15, 2024 at 5:02 AM 1504 Resto-Bar is set to open in the Nippy's Soul Food Restaurant space at 2206 Carolina Beach Road in Wilmington, N.C. in summer 2024.
Cable news station News 14 Carolina also maintains its coastal bureau in Wilmington. On September 8, 2008, at noon, WWAY, WECT, WSFX, WILM-LP and W51CW all turned off their analog signals, making Wilmington the first market in the nation to go digital-only as part of a test by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to iron out transition ...
It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865. The fort was located on one of Cape Fear River's two outlets to the Atlantic Ocean on what was then known as Federal Point or Confederate Point and today is known as Pleasure Island.