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The George Davis Monument is a monument to attorney and Confederate politician George Davis that was erected in Wilmington, North Carolina by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was removed by the City of Wilmington in August 2021. Davis, a railroad attorney and minor local figure before the war, was a pro-Union member of the Whig Party.
The statue was sculpted by Francis Herman Packer, a native of Germany who lived on Long Island, New York, and was a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.. A decade earlier, Packer had been hired by a United Daughters of Confederacy chapter in Wilmington to sculpt the Confederate George Davis Monument (removed, August 2021), located one block to the north and dedicated in 1911.
The Wilmington Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Hanover County, ... George Cameron House (c. 1800) [2] DeRosset House ...
George Davis (March 1, 1820 – February 23, 1896) was a Confederate politician and railroad counsel who served as attorney general of the Confederate States for 480 days in 1864 and 1865. A skilled orator, he gave a notable public speech in March 1861 in which he argued that North Carolina should secede from the United States of America to ...
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On Tuesday night in Wilmington at CFCC's Wilson Center, a raucous crowd came to celebrate four decades of Boy George and Culture Club.
Wilmington on Fire, a documentary about the Wilmington insurrection directed by Christopher Everett, was released in 2015. [173] [174] David Zucchino won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (2020). The book uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries ...
The series was filmed in Wilmington beginning last ... Filmed in NC, other ties to state “George & Tammy” was one of 71 productions to file registration paperwork for film activity in ...