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Wilmington Dry Goods entered bankruptcy protection in 1988. In May of 1989, Schottenstein Stores bought five of the seven Dry Goods stores for $13.8 million as part of a court-ordered auction. The company announced that the stores, including the Tri-State Mall location, would be renovated and reopened as Value City department stores. [17]
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Dry goods is a historic term describing the type of product line a store carries, which differs by region. The term comes from the textile trade, and the shops appear to have spread with the mercantile trade across the British Empire (and former British territories ) as a means of bringing supplies and manufactured goods to far-flung ...
1929 - Wilmington Dry Goods in business. [18] 1930 - Population: 106,597. [11] 1937 - Main Post Office built. 1942 - Crest Theater in business. [13] 1950 – Population: 110,356. [11] 1961 - Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority lawsuit decided by U.S. Supreme Court, broadening the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.
A 1740 map of Paris. Ortelius World Map, 1570. Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. [1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history, anthropology, ecology, geology, environmental studies, literary studies, and other fields.
The war created enormous demand for goods and materials supplied by Wilmington including ships, railroad cars, gunpowder, shoes, and other war-related goods. By 1868, Wilmington was producing more iron ships than the rest of the country combined [citation needed] and it rated first in the production of gunpowder and second in carriages and ...
New Hanover County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 225,702. [1] The county seat is Wilmington. [2] Though the second-smallest county in North Carolina by land area, [3] it is one of the most populous counties, as Wilmington is one of the largest communities in the state.
Brandywine Village was an early center of U.S. industrialization located on the Brandywine River in what is now Wilmington, Delaware. The Brandywine crosses the Fall Line just north of Wilmington, and descends from about 160 feet (49 m) above sea level in Chadds Ford to just a few feet above sea level in Wilmington.