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1733 - James Wimble and three other men begin to sell plots for a settlement under names such as "New Carthage", "New Liverpool", "Newton" or "New Town". [1] [2] [3]1739 Town incorporated and renamed "Wilmington" after the Earl of Wilmington, the patron of the governor of North Carolina Gabriel Johnston.
Wilmington is a port city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States.With a population of 115,451 as of the 2020 census, it is the eighth-most populous city in the state. [7]
Wilmington Historic and Archeological District: May 6, 1974 : Roughly bounded by Wright, S. 7th, and Harnett Sts., and a north-south line 100 yards west of the North East Cape Fear River; also roughly bounded by Harnett, 7th, 3rd, and Howard, Campbell, 9th, 12th, and Princess, Dock, Castle 8th, and 14th, and 9th, Wright, and Greenfield
The Wilmington Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 875 contributing buildings 38 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures in the historic core and surrounding residential sections of Wilmington.
There are names long associated with the Wilmington area many know today: Rivenbark, Trask, Saffo and MacRae to name a few. When it came to names in the Port City more than 60 years ago, there ...
The events in Wilmington in Nov. 10, 1898 was referred to as a race riot by the North Carolina Legislature in 2000 when it set up the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission. That is the term used to this day (2018) by the State Archives of North Carolina , North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources , [ 135 ] and the State Library ...
Located southwest of the Shipyard Boulevard/Carolina Beach Road intersection, the neighborhood was originally constructed in the early 1940s to house thousands of workers who moved to Wilmington ...
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