Cape Fear Lost Index
Title | Cape Fear Lost Index PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Taylor Block |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1999* |
Genre | New Hanover County (N.C.) |
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Cape Fear Lost
Title | Cape Fear Lost PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Taylor Block |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738501925 |
Progress is a contradictory term, one that inherently means an improvement of luxury and an advancement of technology, yet usually at the expense of a community's identity, traditions, and history. Though many buildings survived Civil War skirmishes and Northern occupation during Reconstruction, these same structures did not escape the plans of ambitious entrepreneurs and thus disappeared from Wilmingtone(tm)s landscape, only to be replaced, over time, by shopping plazas and nationally recognizable commercial facades. Cape Fear Lost celebrates places that have vanished from presentday Wilmington. In this volume of more than 200 photographs, you will be able to explore the Wilmington of a bygone era, one punctuated by unpaved tree-lined streets and architecturally diverse dwellings. As you thumb through these pages, you will experience firsthand the beauty of many former mansions scattered throughout the downtown area, familiar churches, civic buildings and schools that once dotted the cityscape, the many businesses that utilized the pedestrian, horse-and-wagon, and shipping traffic along Market Street, and the transformation of Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach from humble summer bungalows into major tourist retreats. These varied scenes allow you an extraordinary insight into this coastal communitye(tm)s changing character over the past century and a half.
Wilmington
Title | Wilmington PDF eBook |
Author | Beverly Tetterton |
Publisher | DRAM Tree Books |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Historic buildings |
ISBN | 9780972324038 |
With hundreds of rare pictures, this award-winning volume captures the many architectural gems that North Carolina's Port City has lost from the colonial period to the present day. Some were lost to natural disasters like fires and hurricanes. Others fell victim to the "progress" of Urban Renewal or the sometimes short-sightedness of private developers. Regardless of how or why these buildings were torn down and lost, they represent pages ripped from the community's collective history. Preservationist Beverly Tetterton has assembled a collection of lost places that serve as cautionary tales for modern planners and citizens.
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Title | Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916 PDF eBook |
Author | James Sprunt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 774 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Register of the Commission and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, Including Officers of the Marine Corps
Title | Register of the Commission and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, Including Officers of the Marine Corps PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The State Records of North Carolina: Index
Title | The State Records of North Carolina: Index PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina |
Publisher | |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | North Carolina |
ISBN |
Index to the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Title | Index to the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina |
Publisher | |
Pages | 634 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | North Carolina |
ISBN |