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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GP5_fanning-house_Wilmington-NC.html
Italianate style house built for Phineas Wines Fanning (1799-1880), native of Nantucket, MA; editor and publisher of the Wilmington Free Press; house, ship and sign painter. He was master of St. John's Masonic Lodge and Grand Master of Masons in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GP4_adrian-house_Wilmington-NC.html
Aldrich Adrian (1834-1897) and wife Christine Fraas (1850-1937) natives of Germany, built the Tuscan villa style house in 1875. Adrian was a city alderman and co-owner of Adrian & Vollers, wholesale grocery. The Z.W. Whitehead family owned the ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GP3_william-e-worth-house_Wilmington-NC.html
Queen Anne style house built for William Elliott Worth (1850-1923), founder of W.E. Worth & Co., Ice Manufacturers; Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager of Universal Oil & Fertilizer Co; and wife, Nellie Shay (1853-1921), native of Brooklyn, N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GOT_whistlers-mother_Wilmington-NC.html
Anna McNeill Whistler, the mother of James Whistler, artist, was born in a house which stood one block east.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GOR_sprunt-house_Wilmington-NC.html
First example of the Italian Renaissance style house in Wilmington built for James Laurence Sprunt (1886-1973), agent for Alexander Sprunt & Son, the world's largest cotton exporter; and wife, Amoret Cameron Price (1891-1915), native of Asheville…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GOP_daggett-taylor-house_Wilmington-NC.html
Queen Anne style house built for Eliza Whitehead Daggett (1846-1907), widow of William T. Daggett (1832-1893), partner in firm of Hancock & Daggett, paint and oil dealers, purchased in 1911 by Edgar Taylor (1858-1922), wholesale fish dealer; and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GOO_residence-of-edward-b-dudley_Wilmington-NC.html
This building was the residence of Edward B. Dudley, first Governor of North Carolina. Elected by the people, in 1836. Here Daniel Webster was entertained by Governor Dudley on May 5, 1847, and here Present William H. Taft was the guest of James …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GON_benjamin-beery-house_Wilmington-NC.html
Italianate style house built for Benjamin Washington Beery (1822-1892), partner in Cassidey & Beery Shipyard; and wife, Ann Eliza Williams (1827-1865). Served as school and convent of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy,1869-1870. Double piazzas added b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GMW_north-carolina-shipbuilding-co_Wilmington-NC.html
Constructed 243 vessels at shipyard one mile west, 1941-1946. Its first Liberty Ship, the S.S. Zebulon B. Vance, launched Dec. 6, 1941.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GMV_fall-of-wilmington_Wilmington-NC.html
Union assault on Hoke's entrenched Confederates led to the city's fall, February 22, 1865. Earthworks were nearby,