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The city was founded in the 1730s. After going through a series of different names (New Carthage, New London, Newton), its name became Wilmington in 1740, [28] named after Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington. [28] The area along the river had been inhabited by various successive cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of
1809 - Borough of Wilmington expanded. [1] 1814 - Harmonic Society formed. [6] 1824 - "First public opinion poll" taken in Wilmington during the U.S. presidential election campaign. [7] 1832 Borough of Wilmington becomes a city per state charter. [8] [1] Richard H. Bayard becomes city mayor. 1835 - Wilmington Whaling Company incorporated. [9] 1837
Town incorporated and renamed "Wilmington" after the Earl of Wilmington, the patron of the governor of North Carolina Gabriel Johnston. [1] [3] New Hanover County seat moves to Newton from Brunswick. [4] 1751 - St. James Episcopal Church founded. [4] 1756 - Fire. [1] 1760 - John Sampson becomes mayor. [1] 1764 - Fort Johnston built near ...
More than 30 years ago, a business owner's patriotism went head-to-head with city officials. ... 1990, edition of the Wilmington Morning Star, the president of Gas World gas stations in the city ...
Locals reflect on how much has changed since the 100th anniversary in 1998, and on what needs to happen for Wilmington to fully reckon with its past. Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre at 125 ...
Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. As of the 2020 census , the city's population was 70,898. [ 5 ]
Wilmington, located 30 miles upstream from the mouth of the Cape Fear River (which flows into the Atlantic Ocean), was among the Confederacy's more important cities. It ranked 13th in size in the CSA (although only 100th in the pre-war United States) with a population of 9,553 according to the 1860 census, making it nearly the same size as Atlanta, Georgia, at the time.
Its first governors went by the title of "President". The Battle of Cooch's Bridge was the only major military engagement of the Revolution that took place on Delaware soil. The engagement began August 30, 1777, about 2 miles (3 km) south of Cooch's Bridge (located in present-day Newark ).